Islam's Mohammed: The False Prophet that Deceived the World

Immediately following the 1983 bombing of the U.S Marine barracks in Lebanon, which killed 241 US Marines, President Ronald Regan ordered the withdrawal of all US forces from the area. In reflecting back on his decision to do so, that decision would become one of the worst foreign policy errors in US history simply on the basis that it rewarded a victory to Islamic militants for their murderous, inhumane act and since that day, the world has witnessed a steady rise in terror by these militants.1 Their targets are often broad in scope, and although collateral damage frequently kills their own, the focus of their attacks are consistently on non-Islamic peoples - 'infidels,' as defined by the Qur'an.
To better understand the hate fueling modern day Islamicism,2 one must first look back to its roots. From Ishmael, whose birthright was denied, to Esau and Jacob - rivaling twins, the seed of hate was sewn. What evolved thereafter was a bitter, jealousy that has been passed down to every Arab generation since. By the 7th century, this ancient hatred made its way into the heart and mind of a common-criminal named Mohammed - an Arab and descendant of Ishmael, who founded a religion and used it to justify his countless, criminal acts of rape and murder.
Both the western media and the Arab press routinely offer biased, politicized answers to what they believe drives this Islamic hatred for the west. From 'US support for Israel' to 'US secularism,' we've heard them all, and despite attempts to justify their inhumane acts, the truth is, Muslims have been committing terrorist acts for some 1,300 years - long before 'western culturalism' or 'US support for Israel' ever existed. And despite such history, we continue to ignorantly look elsewhere for the reasons.
From the early days of Islam to today's globally televised beheadings, Muslims are simply acting-out what Mohammed believed, and what the Qur'an teaches. And when Qur'anic Law was given the opportunity to govern, its violent, 7th century intolerance was seen through the eyes of Afghanistan's Taliban - a view of converting and uniting the Arab world under Islamic Law by sword first, and everyone else second.
What truly is at the heart of the Islamists hatred today is no different than that which fueled Mohammed's hatred as he wrote the Qur'an. It is the belief and goal of a one-world, global Islamic empire run by Qur'anic Law whereby everyone must, in the end, convert to their fundamentalist ideology or face beheading. The hatred that fuels this theocracy dates back to Ishmael and his son-in-law Esau, and from there, compounded to form the foundations of Islamicism which is the reason why most of the world conflicts today involve Muslims.
The Origins of Hatred
Ishmael and IsaacIn 1910 bc, Abraham's wife, Sarah, frustrated with her inability to have a child and impatient with God's timing, asked Abraham to give her a child through their Egyptian maidservant 'Hagar'.
"Now Sarai, Abrams wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleepwith my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her."
(Genesis 16:1-2)
Hagar, servant that she was, submitted to being used this way. But her pregnancy gave birth to strong feelings of superiority toward Sarah. During Hagar's pregnancy, friction began to develop between Sarah and Hagar and when Hagar could no longer endure it, she fled into the desert. There God instructed her to return to Sarah, promising, "I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude" (Genesis 16:10). Into this tense, atmosphere Ishmael was born and for 13 years Abraham thought Ishmael's birth had fulfilled God's promise (Ishmael would become the progenitor of today's Arab world - the Arabs are an Ishmaelite3 race).
When Abraham reached 99 years of age, God appeared to him and announced that his wife Sarah would bear him a son and that they would call him Isaac. And it would be through Isaac that God would establish His covenant (Isaac became the father of the Israelites). Abraham struggled with this because he loved Ishmael dearly and desired that he be his heir and receive the birthright blessings.
"O that Ishmael might live before thee!.."
(Gen 17:18)
But the birthright was denied to Ishmael.
"And I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall come from her." Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to a man 100 years old? And will Sarah, who is 90 years old, bear a child?" And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee (meaning he was first born)! But God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him."
(Genesis 17:16-19)
After the birth of Isaac, Hagar and Ishmael were sent away at Sarah's insistence,
"Cast out this bondwoman and her son," Sarah demanded.
(Gen 21:10)
Sarah was adamant that Ishmael should not inherit along with Isaac. God instructed Abraham to do as Sarah desired, but he reassured Abraham that,
"...also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed."
(Gen 21:13)
But God also knew what kind of people Ishmael's descendants would be when He spoke prophetically to Hagar saying,
And he will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren [literally, "he shall defy all his kinsmen"]."
(Genesis 16:12)
"His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the border of Egypt, as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers."
(Genesis 25:18)
And to this day Arab hands have been "...against every man and every man's against..." theirs and "..they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.."
Ishmael was not a spirit of implacable hatred and murder against Isaac, but rather one of envy and rivalry. Ishmael's position in the family had been radically altered by Isaac's birth. This had wounded his proud spirit, and provoked him into a jealousy. And time has not softened this spirit of envy either. Attitudes and historical perspectives are often transmitted from father to son and from generation to generation. The effects of the domestic rivalry in the household of Abraham are still being felt to this day in the on-going Arab-Israeli conflict.
In time, Ishmael became the father of 12 sons (his descendants are called Ishmaelites) whose names are recorded in Genesis 25:13-16. Ishmael also had a daughter named Mahalath (Bashemath), who would later marry his half-brother Isaac's eldest son, Esau4 (Esau's descendants were known as Edomites).
Ishmalites were marauding nomads who traded with Egypt (Jacob's son Joseph would later be sold by his brothers to a passing band of Ishmaelites - Genesis 37:25-28). They led an untamed existence in the deserts south and east of Canaan and were known for their wandering, lawlessness, and freebooting lifestyle. Ishmael died at the age of 137 (Genesis 25:17) and just as God had promised, his 12 sons grew into "a great nation" with he as clearly the preeminent forefather of the Arab world (The Arab peoples today number over 140 million and are destined to play a significant role in the development of future prophetic events).
The relationship between the Ishmaelite Arabs and the Biblical Israelites is thus clear: Ishmael was the elder half-brother of Isaac, son of Abraham, by way of Hagar, who settled in central and northern Arabia. Isaac in turn, had twin sons, Esau and Jacob. From Jacob - later renamed Israel - descended the Jews and the other tribes of Israel. The Israelis and the Arabs are cousins!
Esau and JacobIshmael's younger brother Isaac, whom he lost the birthright to, had twin sons, Esau and Jacob. And while Esau and Jacob were yet in their mother's womb, "the children struggled together within her" (Genesis 25:22)
God explained that,
"...two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder [Esau] shall serve the younger [Jacob].
(Genesis 25:23)
Esau's name would later be changed to Edom, and Jacob's would be changed to Israel (his descendants, by way of Isaac, would be Israelites). Both brothers were destined to father a great nation.
As firstborn, Esau was the legal inheritor of the birthright, which fell to the eldest son in each generation. But Esau undervalued it and sold it to Jacob for a bowl of red lentil soup (Genesis 25:28-34). Later, Jacob - disguising himself as Esau - tricked his father Isaac (Abraham's son whom God had confirmed His covenant with) into bestowing upon him the blessing confirming the birthright (Genesis 27). By this piece of deception, Jacob earned Esau's implacable anger. Bitterness and vengeance filled Esau's heart.
"And Esau hated Jacob . . ."
(Genesis 27:41)
Forty centuries have not sufficed to wipe out the effects of this deep-seated enmity between Esau and Jacob! The two peoples have continued in their antagonism up to this present day! Historically, the Edomites - especially the Amalekites, the chief tribe of the Edomites - have been bitter foes of Israel.
Significantly, descendants of Esau mingled and intermarried with Ishmaelites and their neighbors. As kinsmen, a close affinity existed between them (In Psalm 83, the descendants of Esau and those of Ishmael are found in alliance against End-Time Israel). Some rabbinical schools in Israel today teach that the Palestinian Arabs - the most ardent adversaries of the Israeli state - are Amalek. There may indeed be some validity to this notion, in view of the prophecy of conflict between Amalek and Israel from generation to generation (Exodus 17:16).
Geopoliticians continually misdiagnose Arab hatred towards Israel and her supporters because they fail to recognize its antiqutal roots. For 16 centuries this bitter hatred was perfected and passed down from Arab generation to Arab generation and by the time of the 7th century, one particular Arab criminal - Mohammed, a self-proclaimed prophet - arrived on the scene fully equipped with a self-defined religion that permitted he and his Arab brothers to commit violent acts of murder and rape in the name of a god.
The Foundations of Islamicism
Mohammed's rise to prophethoodMohammad Ibn Abdallah was born in the year 570 AD to the Quraysh Tribe in the city of Mecca. His father died before he was born and his mother Amina died when he was 6 years old (Mohammed claimed descent from Ishmael's son Kedar). At the age of 25, Mohammed married a 40 year-old wealthy, widow named Khadijah who owned trading caravans. Traveling as a representative of Khadija's various business interests, Mohammed was exposed to many Jews and Christians and became enthralled by their theology, particularly their concept of a single deity. It was at this time he began to envision a single, united Arab state under a single 'god.'
Secular history records that in 610, by which time Mohammed had become the leader of his tribe, he was in a cave meditating and seeking to discover which of the jinni was indeed most powerful and worthy to become the tribal jinni of his family. Mohammed claimed that one of the jinni appeared to him and identified himself as the Angel Gabriel5 and appointed him as 'prophet.' Mohammed immediately began to promote himself as a prophet of god and aggressively began recruiting in and around Mecca while challenging the idol worship of pagan Arab's.6
JihadAs new Islamic recruits began arriving in Mecca, they were without money and resources and realizing this, Mohammed and his recruits began raiding neighboring tribal settlements and passing caravans using the booty to fund his vision of a united, Islamist empire. Caravan raiding was a practice widely practiced by Arab tribes and was used as a means to maintain a balance in power. This is where the Muslim doctrine of 'Jihad' was first instituted.
The HijraAs animosity began to build in Mecca against Mohammed and his teachings, fearing for his life, he and his band of followers fled north to what is today known as Medina. This journey became an annual, religious pilgrimage made by Muslims and is today called the 'hijra.'
In Medina many warring Arab tribes submitted to Mohammed's leadership and self-professed, prophet-hood. Hoping to garner Jewish tribal support for his military campaigns, Mohammed conveniently had yet another vision that his allah7 wanted Muslims to do their praying facing the then Christian city of Jerusalem. But because the Jewish tribes rejected his prophet hood, ridiculed his revelations, and refused to join Islam, Mohammed stopped this practice and reverted back to praying while facing in the direction of Mecca.
In 626 a.d., Mecca amassed 3000 solders to confront 1000 Muslims at the battle of Uhud. The Muslims were defeated by the army from Mecca and retreated to Medina. In 627 a.d., the Meccans, in the hope of ending the caravan raids by the Muslims, assembled 10,000 solders to attack the Muslims in the city of Medina. After a two week siege in the hot sun they were unable to penetrate the fortress like city and returned to Mecca.
The Muslims next began to consolidate their power with the surrounding Arab tribes and begin the slaughter of the non-conformists. One such Medina group that remained was the Jewish tribe - Banu Qurayza. According to Mohammad's sacralized biography by Muhammad Ibn Ishaq,8 Mohammad himself sanctioned the massacre of the Qurayza,9 - this last thorn in his flesh.
Sewing the Roots of Terror
Banu QurayzaThe Banu Qurayza had been reluctant in helping Mohammed against the Quraysh (Keep in mind that the Quraysh tribe were Mohammed's own people). Conveniently once again, Mohammed claimed that he had divine knowledge about a conspiracy by the Banu-Qurayza to kill him. This became his justification to starve the tribe into surrender by besieging their fortress for twenty-five days. He then sentenced every male member of the tribe to death, enslaved all the women and children, and plundered all of their property.
The prophet had an immense trench dug around the main market of Medina10 and then the men of the Banu Qurayza were rounded up one by one and forced to the edge of the trench on their knees. They were offered a last chance to convert to Islam and if they refused, their heads were cut off.11 As soon as one head would roll off, the corpse would be kicked into the ditch, and so it went. By daybreak hundreds of corpses had been piled up in a heap, tangled cesspool of blood, hair, and shreds of flesh. Despite the horrific end in front of their eyes, none of the Jews chose to convert to Islam and faced death valiantly. The blood of nearly 900 innocent Jews stained Mohammed's hands on that black day.12
Their only crime was that they chose to retain their fundamental human right, of choosing their own God and the religion of their ancestors. Hysterical women and children screamed as they watched their fathers, husbands and sons brutally murdered. The majority of them were savagely raped and then bundled off to be sold as 'used goods.' The prophet had the husband of the Jewess Raihana Bint Amr hacked to pieces before her very eyes hours after he had murdered her father.13 After these atrocities he raped the mortified girl and tried to force her to convert to Islam.
Many Muslim revisionist-historians promote the idea that Raihana Bint Amr willingly submitted to Mohammed. According to this logic, it is very natural to imagine that a woman who has just seen her husband, father, brothers, and tribe slaughtered violently before her very eyes, would choose to convert to the religion of the murderer and marry him! Ultimately she refused to convert to Islam as well as marry him so he retained her as a lowly concubine for the rest of his life.14 So much for the 'Apostle of Peace' and his unbounded respect for women. Mohammed was nothing but a serial rapist, who acquired his victims by killing their families first.
Islam's allah has provided yet another timeless Divine revelation which gives his prophet the right to rape and torture women of other religions.
Surat 4:24
"And all married women are forbidden unto you EXCEPT those captives whom your right hand possesses. It is a decree of Allah for you. Lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that you seek them with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery..."
In short, allah the all merciful is affirming that any non-Muslim woman is fair game to rape provided she is "captured" first - "..lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned..." - how divine!
KhaybarA group of Muslims from the Khazraj tribe decided to prove their loyalty to their prophet by killing off a respectable member of the Jewish community. Abu Rafi was an elderly man who had never done anything against Mohammed or the Muslims. He just happened to be the unfortunate target of Mohammed's plot to terrorize the Jews.15 The Prophet wanted to send out a message to the Jews, which spelt out clearly that Mohammed was in control of their lives. The 'expedition' to kill the poor old helpless man had the specific blessings of the 'merciful' prophet. Several Islamists broke into the old man's house in the middle of the night and slashed him to ribbons as he slept. The cowardly Muslims always assassinated people in this way, while the victim slept, obviously because they had neither the courage nor the strength to fight even a solitary, aged Jewish man while he was awake. After their crime, the Muslims fled back home into the welcoming arms of their expectant prophet.
Banu-L-MustaliqMohammed attacked the Banu-L-Mustaliq tribe slaughtering many of its members in a surprise raid, and driving the rest into the sea. They looted away a booty of 2000 camels, 5000 sheep and 500 women! The 500 women were captured screaming and crying while they watched their husbands and sons being slaughtered. The most beautiful captive was Juwayriyya, daughter of the chief of the Banu-L-Mustaliq. Mohammed snatched her to satisfy his own lusts.16 The captured women were supposed to be returned by the Muslims upon payment of a ransom, but the night after the battle itself, Mohammed and his army raped each and every one of them.17
Any human being with the slightest shred of morality has to be nauseated by this man and the religion he preached. Mohammed, the supreme religious figurehead of Islam, sanctioned rape, pure and simple. Not only did the Muslims commit this horrifying crime, they deceived the tribesmen into paying ransom for their womenfolk, who only paid the money in a desperate attempt to save their women's honor.
As Mecca began to feel the economic impact of its trading losses from continued Islamists attacks, Mohammed's power and influence continued to grow in the north. In 628 a.d. the Meccans signed a 10 year peace agreement named, 'The al-Hudaybiyah,' with Mohammed and his Muslim followers. This treaty allowed Muslims to return to Mecca and worship at the Kaba once a year. Out of fear, the people of Mecca would leave their city when the Muslims would come to worship.
Two years later, in January 630 a.d., Mohammed nullifies the treaty of al-Hudaybiyah and invades Mecca with an army of 10,000 terrorists, conquering it.18 He options the citizenry to convert to Islam or be killed by sword (beheading). From Mecca, the 'Muslims' wage Jihad on the surrounding cities forcing them to accept Islam as their religion and Mohammed as their prophet. Through their policy of 'conversion by the sword' Islam had spread as far as Spain, India, and most of North Africa by 637.
Mohammed made his final Hijra in 632 and died unexpectedly 3 months later in June. His friend and father in law Abu Bakr (Father of Aisha) succeeded him as leader of the Muslims.19
The centuries that followed, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indian subcontinent, jihad campaigns waged by Muslim armies against infidel Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Buddhists and Hindus, were punctuated by massacres, including mass throat slittings and beheadings. During the period of 'enlightened' Muslim rule, the Christians of Iberian Toledo, who had first submitted to their Arab Muslim invaders in 711, revolted in 713. In the harsh Muslim reprisal that ensued, Toledo was pillaged, and all the Christian notables had their throats cut.
Mohammed was in fact a terrorist, criminal, and murderer whose entire life and teachings were based on victimizing innocents and indulging in mindless violence and massacre. He was a man who destroyed peace wherever he went, and in its place brought terror, carnage, and death. So how can it be a mystery to anyone that his teachings - the Qur'an - would reap a harvest any different than what the world is experiencing today?
Qur'anic LawMuch contradictory information has been circulated over the media regarding what the Qur'an does or doesn't say. And the spin justifying or defending it has been as confusing and contradictory as the book itself. So, to be objective and factual, let's let the Muslim holy book speak for itself:
The Prophet Mohammed urges Muslims to fight in the cause of allah:
"Verily, Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in rows as if they were solid Structures." (Surat As-Saff 61:4)
"O prophet Mohammed urge the believers (Muslims) to fight. If there be of you 20 steadfast, they will overcome 200 and if there be of you a 100, they shall overcome a 1000, because the disbelievers are a folk without intelligence." (Surat Al-Anfal 8:65)
This Surat clearly exposes Islam to be a religion that not only encourages violence but actually makes it a sacred duty for Muslims to kill anyone who does not believe in Islam. Not only is the all forgiving allah exhorting his followers to kill anyone who is not Muslim, but he is also saying that all non-Muslims are so stupid that they will be unable to defend themselves and therefore deserve death!
The Qur'an commands Muslims not to befriend Jews or Christians:
"O ye who believe (Muslims) take not the Jews or the Christians for your friends and protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he among you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them." (Surat Al-Maidah 5:51)
It commands Muslims to fight Jews and Christians:
"Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (Mohammed) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." (Surah At-Taubah 9:29)
Jizyah is a special high tax to be paid only by Jews or Christians who do not want to renounce their religion and convert to Islam (this Qur'anic Law is still practiced today in much of the Muslim world).
"Jihad (holy fighting in allah's cause) is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that you hate a thing which is good for you and it may happen that you love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, you knew not." (Surat Al-Baqarah 2:216)
Here Mohammed is completely removing all blame from himself for having started the fighting. The most insidious and devilish implication of this verse is that allah is completely justifying Mohammed's murder of the innocent Meccans. Over and above this Mohammed is implying that warfare is hateful to him, but he participated in it because it was ordained by allah!
"Lo, the worst of beasts in Allah's sight are the ungrateful who will not believe... Those of them with whom you made a treaty and then at every opportunity they break their treaty and they keep not duty to Allah, If you come on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, so that they may remember." (Surat Al-Anfal 8:55-57)
Mohammed is saying that acts of planned terrorism against Jewish tribes are justified by allah, because according to the merciful allah, non-Muslims are the worst of beasts! So, in the world called Islam, it is all right to murder, rape, torture and pillage the non-believers! Not only that but allah is advising Mohammed and the Muslims that when anyone protests against their injustices, they should retaliate against the protestors with such violence that it will strike fear among anyone who may think of supporting dissent (exactly the reason that motivates them to behead an innocent man on global television). This demonstrates that the Qur'an is nothing but a political manual for controlling people with terror and the enforcers of this Islamic-ideology are immuned from accountability by Qur'anic law and can therefore carry-out judgment to any non-believer using any method of their choice with a Qur'anic preference of beheading.
"It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he hath made slaughter in the land. You desire the lure of this world and Allah desires for you the hereafter and Allah is Mighty, Wise. Now enjoy what you have won as lawful and good and keep your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is forgiving, merciful." (Surat Al-Anfal 8:67-68)
These two Surahs are in reference to the prisoners that Mohammed held for ransom after the battle of banu-l-Mustaliq. Allah the merciful is saying that they should all have been killed! In addition, allah is conveniently commenting that whatever loot Mohammed has plundered is lawful and good because it was done in service to allah. So murder, rape, plunder, and destruction are all perfectly fine with allah as long as they are done in the name of Islam! Mohammed is also insidiously making himself seem very kind for having spared the lives of the prisoners, when in fact he only let them live so he could get more money from the Ransom for them. In today's world this is called 'terrorism.'
"They question you (O Mohammed) with regard to warfare in the sacred month. Say: Warfare therein is a great transgression but to turn men from the way of Allah and to disbelieve in Him and the inviolable place of worship and to expel its people thence is a greater transgression, for persecution is worse than killing." (Surat Al-Baqarah 2:217)
Allah is clearly saying that to kill or create warfare in the sacred month of Rejeb is a very grave offence, but to justify his own violation of allah's rules, Mohammed comes up with the idea that since the people killed were unbelievers, it was perfectly okay! The reason given for the horrific murder of the innocent Meccans is the fact that they did not believe in Islam's god.
The Qur'an commands Muslims to fight non-Muslims until they exterminate all other religions and Islam would be the only religion in the world - the ultimate goal of Islamicism.
"And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and worshipping of others along with allah) and (all and every kind of) worship is for Allah (alone). But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against As-Zatimun (the polytheists and wrong doers)." (Surat Al-Baqarah 2:193)
This verse is mentioned also in Surat Al-Anfal 8:39. Because of the misunderstanding and ignorance of Christianity, Muslims believe that Christians are polytheists, because they believe in a Triune God. Fundamentalists look at Jews and Christians and all non-Muslims as infidels who must be killed because they have no value as human beings and must be exterminated from the face of the earth.
Fundamentalists divide the world into two camps, Dar Al-Harb (Camp of war) where Jews and Christians exist, and Dar Al-Sallam (Camp of peace) where Muslims live. They believe that Holy war against those who live in the camp of war should continue until they are exterminated.
The Qur'an commands Muslims to terrorize and torture and kill anyone who disobeys allah and the prophet Mohammed:
"(Remember) when your Lord revealed to the angels, "Verily I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks and smite over all their fingers and toes. This is because they defied and disobeyed Allah and His Messenger (Mohammed). And whoever defies and disobeys Allah and His Messenger, them verily, Allah is Severe in punishment. This is (the torment), so taste it; and surely, for the disbelievers is the torment of the Fire." (Surat Al-Anfal 8:12-14)
"The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger (Mohammed) and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter." (Surat Al-Maidah 5:33)
The Qur'an commands Muslims to convert non-Muslims to Islam by force.
"Kill the Mushrikun (polytheists, Christians and non-Muslims), wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush. But, if they repent and perform As-salat (public prayer with Muslims) and give Zakat (Islamic alms), then leave their way free. Allah is oft-forgiving, most merciful." (Surat At-Taubah 9:5)
It is hate-filled words such as these that teach Islamists to go kill innocent, non-combatants because they are non-Muslim and won't convert.20 Furthermore, it is worth noting here that the words 'fight' and 'kill' appear more frequently in the Qur'an than the word 'pray.'
Islam is a prison with no way out. Once a person enters that prison, he cannot leave it alive.
"Then what is the matter with you that you are divided into two parties about the apostates? Allah has cast them back (to disbelief) because of what they have earned. Do you want to guide him whom Allah has made to go astray? And he whom Allah has made to go astray, you will never find for him any way (of guidance). They wish that you reject Faith, as they have rejected (Faith), and thus that you all become equal (like one another). So take not Aouliya (protectors or friends) from them, till they emigrate in the Way of Allah (to Mohammed). But if they turn back (from Islam), take (hold of) them and kill them wherever you find them, and take neither Aouliya (protectors or friends) nor helpers from them." (Surat An-Nisa 4:88,89)
This verse means that if a person says the Islamic Shahada (creed): "I testify that there is no God but Allah, I testify that Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah," he cannot change his mind. If he does change his mind, he will be executed or beheaded as has happened many times in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and other Islamic countries.
Although Islamists target non-Muslims for death, collateral damage from their murderous acts often kills fellow Muslims of which they make no apology for. In fact, it is Muslims that terrorists are killing in the largest numbers by far, and it is Muslims whose governments and societies the Islamists want to takeover initially, then from there, launch their aggression in an all-out assault to obtain the final prize of a global, Islamic kingdom governed by Qur'anic law.
As our focus now sharpens, we begin to see the real reasons they hate; an ancient jealousy sewn and passed down over the centuries to a criminal son who was willing to act upon this hatred and write about it claiming it was words given to him by God.
The Real Reason they Hate:We have all heard the plethora of lies spewing from the mouths of Islamic propagandists who are attempting to justify their murderous acts; 'American support for Israel,' 'We hate America and her love of pornography, alcohol, and secularism,' 'Israeli occupation (which ranks atop the biggest lies ever told - see Signs, Signs, Everywhere are Signs and The Arab Jewish Conflict),' 'We will continue our attacks until western foreign policy towards the Middle East is changed.'
We routinely hear the western liberal press and the Arab press promote that Islam has been hijacked and truly is a 'religion of peace.' If this were true, then on what basis do non-Arab Muslims have for hating Israel? We see examples of their hatred every day and it comes from the self-proclaimed moderates just as loud as it does from the Islamists.
Since modern-day Arab's are descendants of Ishmael and Esau - fathers of the Arab peoples - Mohammed and his blood brothers can at least base their hatred on their loss of their ancestral birthright. But what then is the basis for the same level of hatred found also in the non-Arab Muslims - Asians, Blacks, Whites?21 Certainly they have no birth-right arguments! So what then is their source of hatred toward the Israelis if Islam teaches peace? The fact is, they, like the Islamists, learn this hate from the Qur'an because, as explained earlier, it is what Mohammed himself believed, acted out, and taught to his followers.
Even if America abandoned support for Israel altogether, which would make the Arab and Muslim haters rejoice, they would surely not stop hating us nor would they stop their terrorist acts. They would only conclude that their terror worked, and that America will give in when the threats are great enough and the fatalities are too many to tolerate, just as they recognized it did in Spain and the Philippines, and thus, such a move would only accelerate their hatred.
Once the nations of the world have thus succumbed to their terror, it would finally be at this time that the rest of the world realizes the foundations for Muslim hatred towards the rest of the world, is not Jewish based, nor is it foreign policy based, but rather Qur'anic based, and by this time it will be too late. One proof? Most Muslims living in Europe, which long ago abandoned Israel, continue to hate and attack much of Europe. Europe's abandonment of Israel has only convinced them - for good reason - that Europe has lost its moral fiber and is ripe for an Islamic takeover - and they maybe right!
Although Qur'anic law, on a percentage basis, is by far the primary basis for Islamic hatred of the west, other reasons add fuel to the fire:
America alone (and the little America in the Middle East, Israel) prevents the expansion of Islamic rule.
Expansionist totalitarian movements, whether Soviet communism or radical Islam, always hate free societies, and America is the strongest free society.
America is not only strong, it is religious (as opposed to Europe, which is weak and irreligious).
America is not only Christian; it is Judeo-Christian, the two religions the Islamists need to overcome to expand globally.
And let's not overlook the effects secular liberalism has had on Islam's perception of western culture. In Europe, drugs are legal,22 and in America, homosexuality is not perversion, abortion is not murder, and pornography ranks amongst the largest revenue generating industries.23 As the 'Left' in America successfully continue to remove Mosaic and Spiritual Law from our culture, we become less God fearing and more tolerant and embracing of these issues. Radical Islam sees this and it scares them to death. In fact, it is on this one, very small and isolated stage that Evangelical Fundamentalism and Islamicism share common ground. We both hate what left wing ideologies stand for and we both see the moral destruction it leads to and it fuels their fears of global, western culturalsim. However, outside of this stage, Christian Fundamentalism and Radical Islam are polar opposites.
The sad news is that the 'Left' in America today have deceptively become puppets of the Islamists propaganda. Since we know the moral, degenerating effects of Liberalism, it should be our hope to inject Muslim cultures with brainwashed, liberal, colleges students who go into western universities with a sense of morality and come out believing that absolute truth does not exist, mother earth is beautiful and the creator of all things, and diversity and tolerance are the keys to mankind's socioeconomic prosperity.24
It is not education that will make this problem go away - such a farce is only believed and promoted by the left-wing media elitists. Islamists believe they are performing the 'God of Creation's' will and that for their actions they will receive just-rewards so it does not matter what any foreign policy says as any such position will not reduce or eliminate their religious beliefs and duties of martyrdom.
Martyrdom's BountyThe Qur'an declares that Muslims who fight and die in battle are promised forgiveness and a sensual luxurious life in Paradise.
"And if you are killed or die in the Way of Allah, forgiveness and mercy from Allah are far better than all that they amass (of worldly wealth)." (Surat Al-Imran 3:157)
"Verily, Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties for (the price) that theirs shall be the Paradise. They fight in Allah's Cause, so they kill (others) and are killed. It is a promise in truth which is binding on Him." (Surat At-Taubah 9:111)
What can martyrs expect in paradise? The Qur'an describes life in paradise in the following words:
"Eat and drink with happiness because of what you used to do. They will recline (with ease) on thrones arranged in ranks. And We shall marry them to Hur (fair females) with wide lovely eyes. And We shall provide them with fruit and meat such as they desire." (Surat At-Tur 52:17-20,22)
"Water flowing constantly and fruit in plenty whose supply is not cut off and reclining on couches raised high, verily we have created them (women) of special creation and made them virgins of equal age" (Surat Al-Waqiah 56:31-37)
"Gardens and vineyards and young full-breasted virgins of equal age and a full cup of wine." (Surat An-Naba 78:32-34)
Some prominent Muslim clerics call the suicide bombers martyrs because, as identified here, the Qur'an states a martyr is guaranteed both total forgiveness of his sins and eternal life in paradise. In this so-called paradise, he can drink wine and be married to as many as 72 beautiful, sensual virgins. What kind of god rewards a man for killing innocent women and children with a herum of females serving as eternal, sexual-slaves?
In the Islamists world women serve as the ultimate reward in heaven, but here on earth, in Muslim nations, they're forced to live as second class citizens. Moreover, if eternal pornography is truly the reward for martyrdom, then how can these fundamentalists denounce the pornography that has run rampant in western cultures when they themselves believe they will be partakers in the same bounty? Furthermore, while they are denouncing pornography and secularism, they clothe their wives in one room from head-to-toe, and they rape other women in the house down the street. And all the while they accuse and attack the west because of our 'lack of morality.'
Many moderate Muslims say the fundamentalists comprise a very small minority (the alleged ratio is 9:1) and that they act out these crimes because they misinterpret the Qur'an by taking it literally. If this is true, then I wonder which Qur'anic verses are to be taken literally and which are not? And based upon what? And if they truly are a small minority, then why does the overwhelming majority of Muslims not stand up to them?
A Minority? They Practice what they PreachIt is commonplace to say everything changed on September 11th 2001, but of course the real changes had taken place long before then. There were hints in the early 1980s when, following the Iranian revolution, the staff of the American Embassy were held hostage for a year. Even at that stage it was clear that all things American excited a peculiar rage amongst Islamists. But as the dust of the Berlin wall settled, it became apparent that far from an aberration, Iran was a trendsetter in the new global, political scenery, as throughout the 1990s Islamicism became an increasingly potent, political force. And with a positive promotion of Islam, Qur'anic law formed one strand of the Islamist agenda, anti-Westernism formed the other. Indeed, it is arguable that anti-Westernism is vital to Islamicism's survival and growth, since without the West to rail against, Islam would have only itself to blame for its own failings.
This anti-Westernism has now grown to the extent that it forms a significant, and by far the most violent, element in the conflicts of the twenty-first century. When Samuel P. Huntington referred to Islam's 'bloody borders' in his 1993 essay titled, "The Clash of Civilizations?," he admits he,
"...made that judgement on the basis of a casual survey of intercivilizational conflicts."25 This is remedied in his greatly-expanded 1997 work, where he quotes evidence that, for example, there were in 1993-94,
"...three times as many intercivilizational conflicts involving Muslims as there were conflicts between all non-Muslim civilizations. The conflicts within Islam also were more numerous than those in any other civilization including tribal conflicts in Africa. In contrast to Islam, the West was involved in only two intracivilizational and two intercivilizational conflicts."26
Of course, it is always easy to point the finger at others, and the finger has duly been pointed at the West, yet the reality remains that the number of violent conflicts between broadly Western states and non-Western non-Muslim states is small to the point of, in some years, non-existence. Similarly, armed clashes between and within Western cultures are now (with significant exceptions) almost unheard of.
It is alleged that Islamicism comprises 10-15% of the entire 1.1 billion Muslim population. Yet there are presently 25 major conflicts in the world today and 20 of them involve Muslims either against other religious/ethnicities, or against each other.27 Furthermore, as of March 2003, the US State Dept lists 33 foreign terrorist groups operating in the world today and 22 of them are Muslim.28 If it is true that only 10-15% of Islam comprises religious fundamentalists, than it must also be true that a significant number of the remaining majority sit silently watching, cheering them on. The rest? They are likely moderate-secularists, who either fear reprisals from the Islamists, or don't care at all.
A Look at Current Muslim Conflicts:Let's first consider what the Islamic "minority" is currently engaged in:
In Afghanistan, Taliban remnants and local tribal leaders continue to wage resistance against the newly elected government there.
In Algeria, Islamists are attempting to overthrow a military-based, secular Muslim government by slaughtering any who oppose and with no regard for life.29
In Bosnia/Herzgovinia, Muslims have been fighting other factions off and on for over 20 years.
In Côte d'Ivoire and Chad, Muslim separatists are fighting the established government.30
In Cyprus, Muslim Turks have been warring off and on with Christian Greeks.
Shortly after Indonesia declared the annexation of East Timor, the Islamic Indonesian army went on a "religious cleansing" spree by slaughtering Christians.31
In India, a Muslim - Hindu conflict has existed off-and-of since the British occupancy ended.
In and out of Israel, Jews have been savagely murdered by cowardly acts of terrorism for the last 40 years.
In Kashmir, where estimates of 30 - 60,000 deaths since 1989 have been reported, Muslims and Hindus have been warring over control of that province and both nations posses nuclear power.
In Kosovo, Muslims and Serbs have continued their bitter, religious hatred of each other.
In Kurdistan, Muslims continue their assault on Christians for governmental control.32
In Macedonia, Muslims had been engaged in a civil war until NATO's intervention brought disarmament.
All over the Middle East there exists daily attacks against all ethnicities by Muslims in the name of Islam.
In Nigeria, a country forever ruled by Muslims dictators, Muslims in the north are fighting a new government transitioning towards democracy.33
In Pakistan, Islamists continue to terrorize more moderate Muslims in an effort to gain control of the government and its nuclear weaponry.
In the Philippines, a small band of radical members of Abu Sayaf have been carrying out terrorist attacks seeking separation.
In Russia, Muslim Chechnyians have been carrying out terrorists attacks seeking separation from Russian control.
In Somalia, rival clans of Muslims are slaughtering each other trying to gain a governmental foot hold.
And in Sudan, the Muslim government supports Arab militias who seek out and rape Christian women while the government forces of Khartoum have killed more than one million Christians.34-38
Recent jihad-inspired decapitations of 'infidels' by Muslims have occurred across the globe - Christians in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Nigeria; Hindu priests and 'unveiled' Hindu women in Kashmir; Wall Street Journal reporter, and Jew, Daniel Pearl, American's Nick Berg and Paul Johnson, Jr, and most recently South Korean Kim Sun-il. Based on Mohammed's seeding of Islam, we should not at all be surprised that these contemporary paroxysms of jihad violence are accompanied by these 'ritualized' beheadings. Such gruesome acts are in fact sanctioned by core Islamic sacred texts, and classical Muslim jurisprudence. Empty claims that jihad decapitations are somehow 'alien to true Islam,'39, 40 however well-intentioned, are simply just not true as history will attest.
Welcome, then, to the twenty-first century.
Muslims allege that the West wars on Islam yet the facts reveal that it is Islam that wars with the rest of world. In fact, at the time of this writing, Islam is at war with America, but America is not yet at war with Islam. All of these conflicts offer us a forglimpse of our emerging future where global-relationships are defined by religious, ethnic-alliances and contribute more to conflicts than political foreign policies do.
Conclusion:In Christianity, the saved follow the teachings of Jesus Christ - saved by Grace, through faith. Christians and Jewish martyrs say; "I will die for what I believe," while Islamists say, "You will die for what I believe." In Islam, the 'saved' are those who follow the teachings of their leader Mohammed and only because he sewed seeds of violence, is why today's Islamic fruit reaps violence.
How can a religion (seed), conceived (planted) by violence, and preached by a murderer (nourished), have a peaceful (fruitful) future (harvest)? If you mix flour, cocoa, sugar, and oil, you get a chocolate cake. If you mix violence - murder, rape, plunder - with religion, you get Islamists. And if you claim visions from God to justify your violence, you do not come as a prophet of peace, but rather you come to destroy peace - you are a messenger of satan and you have been deceived.
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life." (Galatians 6:7-8)
Today we hear on radio and television many Muslim clerics saying that Islam means peace. But the word Islam means 'submission' and a Muslim is one who is in submission to allah. Their goal, as stated in the Qu'ran, is to bring the entire world into submission to allah under a global, Islamic empire. And they believe before they can achieve this dream they must first destroy America and the western countries.
Nineteen educated Muslims representing a broad demographical base, committed suicide and killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the four planes they flew on that black Tuesday. Those nineteen Muslims did that because of their deep conviction that they will go directly to paradise to enjoy sensual pleasures, and because of their terrible hatred for America; a country populated by a Christian majority.
These men were devout Muslims who were highly intelligent and demonstrated excellent communication skills with children, old men, professors, and people in government. Each of them successfully adapted to Western culture while secretly hating it. Mohammed Atta, in his October 1999 thesis, wrote the following verse from the Qu'ran:41
"My Prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death belong to allah, the Lord of the World's"
The West needs to know that many other Mohammed Atta's may quietly be living amongst us.
Followers of the al-Qaeda ideology have already shown what kind of government and what kind of society they pursue. Afghanistan had the dubious distinction of embodying that fundamentalist fantasy under Taliban rule where Qur'anic Law dictated every aspect of daily life, where thought and expression were strictly controlled, and where infractions against ancient religious codes were punished by beheadings. From Afghanistan we have been warned that the biggest losers from a fundamentalist victory will be non-Muslims and women - everyone else.
The number one enemy of Islamic radicals is modernity. And anything that moves society forward, away from their understanding of what life was like in 7th century Arabia, where Islam was born, is viewed as a threat. That's one reason why Muslims and non-Muslims incorrectly view this as a conflict between East and West. Islamists view the West, led by the United States, as the tip of the modernity spear - and they are probably right. But most people in the Arab world do not want to live by 7th century rules. They may not want all that America stands for, but they do want human rights, economic opportunity, and progress.
The Muslim majorities (some 950 million) - tragically for them and dangerously for us - have failed to speak out against this campaign that is slaughtering their people and keeping desperately needed progress from reaching their lands. As the controversial Muslim writer Irshad Manji says, "the Muslim world has used the West - the so-called oppressive West - as a weapon of mass distraction for a long time."
Muslims have been successfully intimidated. Voices of dissent have been silenced, and people who 'devour' the Western lifestyle in private, publicly speak out against America. And despite efforts to accommodate 'the religion of peace,' Islamists will continue to find reasons to hate and Muslims will continue to be the reason much of the world is at war. It is of great importance for any non-Muslim to know what kind of society he or she will live in if fundamentalist Muslims rule.
It is clearly no secret that God forewarned His people about the violent nature of Ishmael and Esau's descendants. Despite these truths, Satan's ability to deceive will eventually lead Israel to drop her guard and sign a false peace treaty, which will begin the 'Seven Year Tribulation' period - man's final reign on earth. Three and one-half years into this treaty the Muslims will be participants in a confederation invading Israel one last time fulfilling the prophecy of Ezekiel 35 and God's wrath in judgment against their sword.
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