"'Oh dear people, look at this global
arena. By whom are we confronted?
We have to understand the depth of the
disgrace of the enemy,
until our holy hatred expands continuously and strikes
like a wave.'"
Iranian President Ahmadinejad at Tehran Conference 2005
VII Islamic Intolerance Toward the Non-Believer
A primary way that Muslims and their supporters respond to critics of Islam is by accusing them of being racist even though Islam is not a race. Yet Islam divides the world into believers, subjugated non-believers and non-subjugated non-believers who have to be either subjugated or killed.
Creators of religious throughout history have created doctrines of hatred against people who will not convert. Muhammad, angry because he could not convert the Jews, wrote into the Koran that the Jews should live in humiliation and misery. He also wrote about Holy War against the Infidel. The fundamentalist Moslem world is against people of all other beliefs. This has caused endless wars in the Middle and Far East and will undoubtedly cause many more. There is a widespread misconception that oppression of the Palestinians is the cause of Arab hatred against the West. Yet what propagandists call oppression, is often simply self defense measures taken by people oppressed by Muslims. This is diagrammed in the Creation of Oppression web page. Jihad against an infidel who defends himself is at the root of most Islamic misery in the world. Dr. Walid Phares in an article in Frontpagemag.com (October 20, 2003) said that Bin Laden's own words confirm this. Dr. Phares wrote:
Against the attempts by a sea of intellectuals who have, and still attempt to read "social injustice" into the roots of the 9/11, the sultan of al-Qaida reaffirmed that this "Jihad is against the Kuffars (infidels), those who have assembled today under the banner of the Cross."
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, many Iraqis became very pro-American because their appreciation of being liberated from Saddam's tyrannical rule dwarfed their Islamic born hostility. One Iraqi display of affection was reported by the New York Post (4/10/03) as follows:
It was enough to make a Texan president's heart swell: Hassan Atiya, an Iraqi on horseback, riding off into the chaos of wartime Baghdad with a vigorous wave and an exclamation - "I love you, America"
In another article the New York Post reported (April 10, 2003):
Jubilant Iraqis stomped on a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein and dragged its severed head through the streets of Baghdad yesterday as the despot's regime collapsed in an orgy of cheering, waving and looting...
But the celebration on the streets did not remove some of the difficulties America will face in establishing a postwar government in Iraq - at least according to some Baghdad demonstrators.
"We will never allow [the Americans] to stay," said Ali al-Obeidim, a store owner. "Whatever Saddam has done ... we are a Muslim nation."
In spite of being freed from the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein the Islamic faith of Ali al-Obeidim makes him anti-American.
Shortly after being liberated from Saddam Hussein thousands of Shiites in Nasiriyah chanted, "No to America, and no to Saddam!" (New York Post 4/16/03).
Shortly after the demonstration in Nasiriyah there was a Sunni demonstration in Baghdad. An article in the Home News Tribune (Iraqis say U.S. should leave 4/19/03) described how Iraqis were exercising their new freedoms.
Iraqis
exercised new freedoms and jockeyed for power in a new era yesterday, marching
in Baghdad to demand the quick withdrawal of the same American troops and tanks
that toppled Saddam Hussein.
"No to America, no to Saddam, our revolution is Islamic," chanted the demonstrators who spilled into the streets after prayers at one 1,300-year-old Sunni Muslim mosque...
Some protesters carried banners that said, "Leave our country. We want peace," and many raised their right fists and chanted, "America is God's enemy."
Inside the 1,300-year-old mosque, Sheik Ahmed al-Kubeisy said, "We will not accept a government that will oppress us. There must be an elected government."
Addressing some of his remarks to Americans, he added, "You are masters today. But I warn you against thinking of staying. Get out before we force you out."
This sentiment is shared in Egypt. A well-known singer in Egypt has turned up with a popular new hit: "Better Saddam's hell than America's paradise." (A Journey Without Maps, Fouad Ajami 5/26/03 US News & World Report)
About 5 days after the Sunni demonstration, Iraqi Shiite Muslims celebrated their holy festival in honor of Hussein, grandson of Muhammad described by the New York Daily News as follows:
For
the first time in three decades, Iraq's Shiites were free to mark their holiest
festival - free to crawl on bleeding knees, to whip themselves raw and to cut
their own heads open with swords.
With Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein no longer able to torment them, millions of Shiite Muslims flooding into the holy city of Karbala eagerly tormented themselves in a remarkable explosion of long pent-up religious fervor.
"This year is particularly important because we're free to do what we want," cried Jamella Mousawi, 50, a housewife who walked for five days from Baghdad.
Many also used their new freedom to express strong anti-Americanism, a bad sign for Washington's hopes of installing a government that is both democratic and pro-American.
Under a blazing sun, the faithful dripped sweat and gore as they circled Imam Hussein's golden mausoleum in dense crowds.
They whipped themselves with chains, sprayed blood from gashed scalps and waved flags - black for mourning and green for Islam...
The annual pilgrimage to Karbala marks the A.D. 680 beheading of Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammed, at the battle that split the Muslims into the Shiite and Sunni sects. Abandoned by his followers, Hussein faced down a massive army practically alone and was martyred.
The Shiites are still beating themselves up for failing to come to his aid - literally.
The ritual self-abuse is meant to express their continuing shame.
"Imam Hussein suffered and died for the Shiites. We hope this visitation eases our path to heaven," Mousawi said...
As the Shiites flexed their new political muscle, there was little gratitude for their liberation...
"Down, down with the Americans! Yes, yes to an Islamic state! Down, down with the Americans!
Americans in Iraq, were fired at by people with AK47s who were mingled in a crowd protesting the American presence in a schoolhouse. (Fox News 4/29/03)
Al-Nidaa, a website affiliated with Al-Qa'ida, recently published a series of articles about the war in Iraq. The eleventh(1) part of the series stated:(MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 498 5/2/03)
one of the greatest threats to the hegemony of Islam and the dominance of Shari'a [Islamic law] is the American secularism that will be imposed forcefully on the region... The Islamic world will change from dictatorship to democracy, which means sub-human degradation in all walks of life." The meaning, stated the article, of the term 'democracy,' is that people rule, instead of Allah.
After the liberation of Iraq by the United States in 2003, over a million Shiites demonstrated many against the continued presence of American troops. According to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin 4/26/03, the Shiite leader "Ayatollah Mohammed Bakir Khakim is on record pledging more than once to his followers a plan to impose Islamic rule over Iraq with the help of Iran."
On April 4th Iraqi Shiites revolted against the United States under the leadership of an Iranian backed cleric, Muqtada al Sadr . (New York Post 4/5/04)
Organized Muslim groups in Iraq have been shooting at American soldiers. In addition they have been attacking Iraqi Christians. According to Worldnetdaily (Christian Persecution On Rise in Iraq, posted 6/14/03)
At least two Christian shop owners were shot dead by Shari'ah vigilantes" last month "and there are unconfirmed reports of another owner and a Christian bystander also being killed," said Christian Forum in Support of Persecuted Religious Minorities Worldwide, according to ANS.
"In some areas women are being forced to wear the veil and have been spat upon, vilified and even refused treatment at hospitals when they failed to do so." ...
Basra appears to have the highest level of persecution.
"Christian girls in some parts of the city are now afraid to go to school in case they are kidnapped," and "some Christian families have already begun to leave Basra to the country's Christian heartland around Mosul
The Saudis who America saved from an Iraqi invasion after the invasion of Kuwait have not been overwhelmed with love of America either. According to the New York Post (11/1/04)
In an open letter to the Iraqi people posted on the Internet yesterday, 26 Saudi scholars and religious preachers stressed that armed attacks launched by militant Iraqi groups on U.S. troops and their allies in Iraq were "legitimate" resistance.
The scholars — some of whom have been criticized in the past for their extremist views — issued a fatwa, or religious edict, prohibiting Iraqis from offering any support for military operations carried out by U.S. forces against militant strongholds.
"Fighting the occupiers is a duty for all those who are able. It is a jihad [holy war to push back the assailants," said the letter. "Resistance is a legitimate right. A Muslim must not inflict harm on any resistance man or inform about them. Instead, they should be supported and protected."
Not all Muslims in Iraq are for
violence against America. On December 10, 2003, 20,000 men and women marched across central Baghdad,
while others repeated the move in different cities of Mesopotamia. The
demonstrators, from all walks of life and from all religions and ethnicities of
Iraq, shouted one slogan in Arabic: "La' la' lil irhab. Na'am,
na'am lil dimucratiya." That is:
"No, no to terrorism. Yes, yes to Democracy!"
It is interesting that there is opposition to an Islamic state in Iran, perhaps because they have experience living under the heal of one. An Iranian architect said, "We don't want any more Islamic Republic. It has taken us 25 years to realize that the revolution came to nothing." Like many, he wants "American help for a change of regime." "The Afghans and the Iraqis had their dictatorships taken away," says a filmmaker, "so why not us?" (Le Monde/Watch-Sweden)
In another article on April 10, 2003, the New York Post reported the shock and disappointment in the Islamic world at the fall of Saddam:
"Why did he fall that way? Why so fast?" asked Yemeni homemaker Umm Ahmed, tears streaming down her face...In a live report from Baghdad, an Abu Dhabi TV correspondent said: "We are all in shock. How did things come to such an end? How did U.S. tanks enter the center of the city? Where is the resistance?
The intolerance of Islam for Christianity is the reason that Lebanon, once a prosperous democratic country in which Christians were a strong political force, has become an Islamic state controlled by Syria. It's the reason for the long, bloody, ongoing civil war in Sudan between the entrenched National Islamic Front in Khartoum and the Christian south and the enslavements of Christians captured from the south.
Charles Jacobson, president of the American anti-slavery group spoke about this: (Rocker rescues Sudan slaves New York Post 12/11/01 p10)
Because the blacks in the south, who are mostly Christian, don't want to be ruled by the Koran, there is genocide and two million people have been killed.
As part of holy war, they raid African villages and shoot the men and capture the women and children and have them as Jihad slaves. They force them to become Muslim. The women are genitally mutilated and raped, the little boys become goat herders, and God forbid you lose a goat, they chop your fingers off.
David Pryce-Jones in his piece Islam in Action that appeared in the New York Post Nov. 18, 2001, wrote that:
Right round the boundaries of the Islamic world, Islam offers neither peace nor tolerance...In Kosovo and Chechnya, Kurdistan, Lebanon and even Cyprus, in the Phillipines, in Malaysia and Indonesia, Muslims are fighting on issues that ought to be susceptible to rational negotiation...A Nigerian journalist, Ulanugu Eneh, has written, "The greatest threat to Nigeria as a nation as presently constituted is Islamic extremism." ... At Khartoum University, over 20,000 Christian books were burned or vandalized. In Algeria... at least 100,000 Muslims have been killed in the civil war there, and in addition to these atrocities was the murder of Bishop Clavier of Oran, and the beheading of seven Trappist monks.
At Hodeidah in Yemen, three nuns from Mother Teresa's order were murdered.
Muslims are murdering and
beheading Christian girls in Indonesia (Christian Girls
Shot Near Church, worldnetdaily.com 11/9/05). This is a picture of Noviana Malewa who was lucky enough to fall
into a ravine after being struck with a machete. Her friends who weren’t so lucky were decapitated by Indonesian
Muslim Jihadis. (wnd.com 12/21/2006)
In December 2005 two Christians who devoted their lives to helping African children were murdered by Muslims apparently because they were suspected of trying to spread Christianity (news.telegraph, 12/23/05).
On August 23 2002, Yemen's government-run television station broadcast a prayer sermon delivered at the Grand Mosque in Sanaa, Yemen's capital. Here is what the preacher had to say,
O Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters and the Christians and their supporters and followers.O Allah, destroy the ground under their feet, instill fear in their hearts, and freeze the blood in their veins.
Earlier in August 2002, in a Friday prayer sermon broadcast live on official Qatari TV from the Omar Bin-Khattab Mosque in Doha, the preacher denounced what he termed the "vile Christians" and pleaded with Allah to annihilate them:
O Allah, destroy the usurper Jews and the vile Christians. O Allah, pour out Your anger on them. O Allah, destroy them.
The 10th grade textbook for one of the five required religion classes taught in all Saudi public schools states: 'It is compulsory for the Muslims to be loyal to each other and to consider the infidels their enemy.' This hostile view of non-Muslims is reinforced through Saudi sermons and TV shows that are controlled by the Saudi government (Saudi Arabia: Pace-seeking image, pro-terrorist reality, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 02). On August 28, 02, the feds charged five Middle Eastern men in Detroit with plotting terror attacks in the United States - including at Disneyland. The suspects were in the Salafi Group for Call and Combat. The group is dedicated to the destruction of all infidels who don't accept its members beliefs. (New York Post 8/29/02)
Preaching in a mosque in Al-Damam, Saudi Arabia, the popular Saudi Sheikh Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid recommended hatred of Christians and Jews as a proper course: “Muslims must,” he declared, “educate their children to Jihad. This is the greatest benefit of the situation: educating the children to Jihad and to hatred of the Jews, the Christians, and the infidels; educating the children to Jihad and to revival of the embers of Jihad in their souls. This is what is needed now...”
On August 23, 02 the severed heads of two kidnapped Jehovah's Witness missionaries were found in a crowded marketplace in the Philippines. The heads had notes written on them denouncing the victims as infidels and calling for Jihad. One note said (NYPost 8/23/02):
This is what happens to those who don't believe in Allah. This is part of our Jihad.
CNN obtained a video archive which showed that the fight against the infidel is occurring around the world. They viewed a tape from the east African nation of Eritrea shows fighters there proclaiming an Islamic battle to drive infidels out of the country.
Another, Tape C205, shows Jihadi fighters in 1990 in the south Asian country of Burma, training with an Arabic-speaking instructor, who tells them, "We are fighting this fight because it is an Islamic fight."
According to CNN online other videos from Uzbekistan, Algeria, Bosnia and many other countries show similar scenes (Tapes give evidence of al Qaeda's global reach August 23, 2002 Posted: 9:44 AM EDT (1344 GMT)).
Although Islam is intolerant of the non-believer for not believing it is also intolerant of the freedom of the non-believer.
Jamie Glazov in an article titled Why Islam Hates Democracy wrote:
In the eyes of Islam, the very notion of democracy is demonized. In Islam, after all, Allah is sovereign, which means that humans constructing their own laws is sinful. The Koran and Sharia Law give Muslims all the laws they need...
In Islam, democracy, as well as the very notion of the freedom of human conscience, represents a dangerous deviation from the Koran and the Sharia. Elections are seen as a form of blasphemy. They are Satan’s vehicle to destroy the Koran
An outstanding article titled Can There Be an Islamic Democracy that debunks the arguments of U.S. academics who say that Islam and Democracy are compatible was written by David Bukay and appeared in the Middle East Quarterly. Paul Marshall, author of Radical Islam's Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Shari'a Law said in an interview with Jamie Glazov said there was a difference between the retrogade Sharia law of the Islamists and the Sharia of other moderate Muslims. He said (Glazov, J., Sharia Goes Global, frontpagemag.com 10/3/05):
The state
enforced imposition of retrograde Sharia law is central to the project of
Islamist terrorists worldwide, whether in Iraq, Nigeria, Tajikistan or
Indonesia. Their explicit, continually reiterated, program is, in brief, to
restore a politically unified worldwide Muslim community, the ummah, ruled by a
single ruler, a Caliph, governed by the most reactionary version of Islamic
law, Sharia, and organized to wage jihad on the rest of the world. We are in a
battle with what is most accurately called the Caliphate movement.
A key element of their program and appeal is the replacement of democracy, legislatures
and “man-made law” with what they regard as the immutable divine law declared
by God to Mohammed. As MEMRI has recorded, bin Laden’s December 16, 2004
“Statement to the Saudi Rulers” said the regime must be overthrown for “ruling
by laws other than those which Allah has revealed” and implementing “man-made
laws.” His December 27 “Letter to the Iraqi People” told them not to
participate in the January 30 election since Muslims are allowed only to elect
a leader for whom “Islam is the only source of the rulings and laws.”
Palestinian Authority elections are likewise forbidden since “the constitution
of the land is a Jahili made by man” (he added another little noticed reason
for boycotting the Palestinian elections, by the way. This was that “the candidate
Mahmoud Abbas is a Bahai.”) He also condemned voting in Afghanistan since the
Karzai government is ‘apostate.” Iraq’s terrorist Ansar al-Sunnah Army has
warned Iraqis not to vote because "Democracy is a Greek word meaning the
rule of the people…. This concept is apostasy."
Andrew Bostom in an article titled Radical
Islam’s Goal is Global Conquest (frontpagemag.com
7/2/2007) quoted Islamic scholars about the totalitarian leanings of Islam. He wrote:
Ibn Warraq has observed
aptly that the most fundamental conception of a Caliphate, “...the constant
injunction to obey the Caliph-who is God's Shadow on Earth”, is completely
incompatible with the creation of a “rights-based individualist philosophy.”..
Almost
six decades ago (in 1950), G.H. Bousquet (pp.
104-5), a pre-eminent modern scholar of Islamic Law, put forth this
unapologetic, pellucid formulation of the twofold totalitarian impulse in
Islam:
Islam first came before the world as a doubly
totalitarian system. It claimed to impose itself on the whole world and it
claimed also, by the divinely appointed Muhammadan law, by the principles of
the fiqh, to regulate down to the smallest details the whole life of the
Islamic community and of every individual believer....the study of Muhammadan
law (dry and forbidding though it may appear to those who confine themselves to
the indispensable study of the fiqh) is of great importance to the world today.
Although Islam and democracy
are incompatible that doesn’t mean that oppressed Muslims don’t want democracy
for themselves. Zawahiri wrote a now
famous letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, in July 2005
in which he says how democracy can be used to impose Sharia. Ephraim
Karsh wrote that:
If, Zawahiri instructed his
lieutenant, al Qaeda’s strategy for Iraq and elsewhere were to succeed, it
would have to take into account the growing thirst among many Arabs for
democracy and a normal life, and strive not to alienate popular opinion through
such polarizing deeds as suicide attacks on fellow Muslims. Only by harnessing
popular support, Zawahiri concluded, would it be possible to come to power by
means of democracy itself, thereby to establish jihadist rule in Iraq, and then
to move onward to conquer still larger and more distant realms and impose the
writ of Islam far and wide.
Democracy is
used to impose Sharia in the West.
Danish Muslim Ahmad Abu Laban,
was recorded stating that the West gives his radical co-religionists “a margin
of freedom” in which to lobby politically to impose Islamic law on Western and
Danish society, and “we use it.”
(PBS
Muzzles Moderates)
Abul A'la Mawdudi, founder of the
Jamaat-i Islami in India, has argued that if democracy is conceived as a
limited form of popular sovereignty, restricted and directed by God's law,
there is no incompatibility with Islam, but Mawdudi concluded that Islam is the
very antithesis of secular Western democracy based solely on the sovereignty of
the people. (Quoted in Esposito and Piscatori, Democratization and Islam,
p. 436. See also Abul A'la Mawdudi, A Political Theory of Islam, in, Donohue
and John Esposito, eds. Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1982), pp. 253-54.) On the other hand, Sayyid
Qutb, a leading traditionalist theoretician of the Muslim Brotherhood, executed
by the Egyptian government in 1966, objected to the idea of popular sovereignty
altogether: Qutb believed that "the Islamic state must be based on the
Quranic principle of consultation or shurah [on the interpretation of Shari'a],
and that the Islamic law or Shari'a is so complete a legal and moral system
that no further legislation is possible or necessary." (Quoted in
Hudson, "After the Gulf War," p. 436. For more on Qutb's views on
Islam, see John L. Esposito, ed., Voices of Resurgent Islam (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1983)) Khomeini's successor and Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei called liberal democracy "the source of all human
torment." (Michael Rubin, The Radioactive Republic of Iran, The Wall
Street Journal, 1/16/2006)
Amir Taheri (New York Post 9/4/03) quoted an excerpt from "The Future of Iraq and The Arabian Peninsula After the Fall of Baghdad" by Yussuf al-Ayyeri, one of Osama bin Laden's closest associates since the early 90s as follows:
"It is not the American war machine that should be of the utmost concern to Muslims. What threatens the future of Islam, in fact its very survival, is American democracy."
Taheri explains that:
What Al-Ayyeri sees now is a "clean battlefield" in which Islam faces a new form of unbelief. This, he labels "secularist democracy." This threat is "far more dangerous to Islam" than all its predecessors combined. The reasons, he explains in a whole chapter, must be sought in democracy's "seductive capacities."
This form of "unbelief" persuades the people that they are in charge of their destiny and that, using their collective reasoning, they can shape policies and pass laws as they see fit. That leads them into ignoring the "unalterable laws" promulgated by God for the whole of manind, and codified in the Islamic shariah (jurisprudence) until the end of time...If established in any Muslim country for a reasonably long time, democracy could lead to economic prosperity, which in turn, would make Muslims "reluctant to die in martyrdom" in defense of their faith.
Al Ayyeri is making a very interesting point which is that it is not in the interest of radical Muslims for Muslims to prosper economically. This is why the Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority allow Arabs to suffer in refugee camps. Those camps become a source of violent Jihadis which is exactly what they want. This also explains the efforts of Al Qaeda and other radical Islamic groups to sabotage U.S. efforts to rebuild Iraq. Oil pipelines could bring prosperity to Iraq so radical Muslims blow them up. Improved medical care might actually lead to some Iraqis liking the infidel which is why on October 27, 2003, a suicide bomber drove a bomb packed ambulance into the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad and detonated it. Health care for Iraqis is bad when you Iraqis to be suffer and to blame that suffering on the Americans.
Amir Taheri wrote another article (New York Post 8/18/04) in which he points out that democracy is actually prohibited in the Koran. He wrote:
The Koran includes a chapter entitled "Parties" (Ahzab) to warn against splitting the Umma (the community of the faithful) into rival political groups vying for power.
Taheri writes about widespread sermons in the Arab world the United State and Europe in August 2004. Taheri writes that the sermons say:
"Our Prophet did not run for office in any election. He did not win any political debate. [Instead] he won the war against the infidel."
The implication here is that to be like the prophet we shouldn't have democracy and debate issues like those infidel Americans but should instead fight those infidel Americans.
In another article titled The Islamic Urge to Vote (New York Post 10/11/04) Amir Taheri wrote that the traditional position of Islam is that it is opposed to any election, however some Muslim theologians have declared voting an obligation for Muslims in non-Islamic lands. He wrote:
Their argument is that, though Muslims owe no loyalty to non-Islamic states, they must be free to decide when their participation in elections serves the interests of Islam.
Theologians insisting that voting is an "obligation" include Yussuf al-Qaradawi (an Egyptian based in Qatar), the Lebanese Faisal al-Mawlawi and the Iranian Makarem Shirazi. Their argument is that Muslims living in non-Muslim lands should regard themselves as missionaries whose task is to convert the citizenry to Islam adn in time, establish an Islamic state. Thus if taking part in elections is a means of achieving those goals, it is incumbent on Muslims to do so...
Muslim support for Kerry is not inspired by any love for the senator but by the perception that he would withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, thus allowing the establishment of Islamic regimes in Baghdad and Kabul.
You
can vote Islamic radicals in but once you do you can’t vote them out. They’ll use democracy to seize power and
that’s the extent of the value of democracy for them. The following is a picture of a child pissing on the statue of
liberty who is holding a book with democracy written on it. It appeared in the Hamas weekly Al Risala
5/5/2006 (Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin, 5/31/2006). Clearly elections brought Hamas to power but
that did not instill respect for democracy in Hamas and elections will not
remove Hamas from power.
Benjamin Netanyahu, in a speech to the House Government Reform Committee on September 20, 2001, also argued that hatred of democracy fuels hatred of the West. He explained:
The soldiers of militant Islam do not hate the West because of Israel, they hate Israel because of the West. They see it as an island of Western democratic values in a Muslim Arab sea. This is why they call Israel the Little Satan, to distinguish it clearly from the country that has always been and will always be the Great Satan -- the United States of America.
Nothing better illustrates this better than Osama bin Laden's call for Jihad against the United States in 1998. He gave as his primary reason not Israel, not the Palestinians, not the "peace process" but rather the very presence of the United States "occupying the Land of Islam in the holiest of places." And where is that? "The Arabian peninsula "says bin Laden, where America is "plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers and humiliating its people." Israel by the way, comes a distant third after "the continuing aggression against the Iraqi people."
For the bin Ladens of the world, Israel is merely a sideshow. America is the target.
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad expressed the view that Jews invented democracy to gain control of the world. He told a summit of Islamic leaders on Oct 16, 2003 that "Jews rule the world by proxy" and that "they get others to fight and die for them." (New York Post Oct, 17,2003) He said Jews "invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy" to avoid persecution and gain control of the most powerful countries. The leaders gave Mahathir a standing ovation afterwards. Jeff Jacoby (Boston Globe 1/23/03) wrote that:
Applauders included not only the Muslim world's dictatorial fanatics, but also its reputed moderates, including President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia, General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, and Jordan's King Abdullah. Even America's Muslim allies and clients admired Mahathir's views. The foreign minister of Egypt -- a country that receives $2 billion a year in US aid -- pronounced the speech "a very, very wise assessment." Hamid Karzai, the US-installed president of Afghanistan, praised it as "an eye-opener to a lot of us and . . . what the Islamic world should do."
William Hawkins wrote in frontpagemag.com 12/23/05 that:
Al-Qaeda
warlord Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has declared, "a bitter war against democracy
and all those who seek to enact it." "Democracy is also based on the right
to choose your religion," he said, making it "against the rule of
God." He said if freedom of expression is allowed "even cursing God.
This means that there is nothing sacred in democracy." He said Islam
requires the rule of God and not the rule of "the majority or the
people."Islamic clerics must protect the people from politicians who might
enact laws that contradict the Koran.
Such a system exists in Iran. In June's election, the Guardian Council, a body
of 12 Muslim clerics and religious jurists, excluded from the ballot all women
and all candidates critical of the current regime. The Supreme Leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appoints six members of the Guardian Council and the
other six are nominated by the Judiciary. The Guardians can also veto legislation.
Their job is to make sure that democracy does not allow the people to stray
from the fundamental principles of Islamic society and faith. The result of
such orchestrated elections was the coming to power of President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, who denies the Nazi Holocaust took place, believes Israel should
be "wiped off the map" and wants nuclear weapons.
The foolish Muslims who attack democracy fail to realize that democracy is the key to their gaining power in countries where they do not have it. Robert Baer in his book, Sleeping With the Devil wrote about the folly of the American idea that democracy would cure Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia of their radicalism. He wrote:
Let's start by taking a look at the last time there were true democratic elections held in an Arab country: Algeria in late 1991 and early 1992. When it became clear the fundamentalists were about to win an overwhelming majority and impose an Islamic constitution, the army stepped in. The country was immediately plunged into a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. It's still going on today.
Why would we expect Saudi Arabia to be different? According to one poll conducted in October 2001, 95 percent of educated Saudis between the ages of twenty five and forty one support bin Laden. ...In October 2002 I asked a leader of the Saudi opposition, Muhammad al-Masari what he thought. There was no doubt in his mind that an Islamic government would succeed the Al Sa'ud if the Saudis were allowed to decide their own political destiny.
Jeffrey Nyquist wrote an excellent column 1/12/2007
titled Some
Things Are Impossible which explained how lack of free speech in Muslim
lands makes democracy impossible and how free speech is impossible in Muslim
lands because of their violent reaction to speech they don’t like.
In Iraq the U.S. in an effort to get the constitution passed by the deadline of August 22nd agreed to make "Islamic principles" the standard for legislation (U.S. Backs Down on Islamic Law worldNetDaily, 8/21/05). According to Saleh al-Mutlak, a Sunni negotiator, the agreement means parliament could pass no legislation that "contradicted Islamic principles." A Kurdish politician said"
"We understand the Americans have sided with the Shi'ites. It's shocking. It doesn't fit American values. They have spent so much blood and money here, only to tack the creation of an Islamist state."
The problem with creating a democracy in Iraq is Islam. Abu Maysara Al-Iraqi, usually described as head of al-Qaida's "media department" in Iraq said:
We will harshly retaliate against anyone who participates and encourages the writing of the constitution and therefore to rule against God's way,"
Another group, the "Islamic Tribunal of the Organisation of al-Qaida in the Land of Two Rivers" warned on its website that it had
"decided to apply the order of Allah: Kill whoever assumes the right to be a partner of God and draws up a null and void constitution."
Muslims hate America because Americans are non-believers. A young Afghan refugee made the following comment about the attack on the World Trade Center when emerging from a Saudi-funded Islamic seminary in Pakistan that confirms this. ( Unbelieving West by Saul Singer Jerusalem Post 11/30/01)
We are happy that many kaffirs [infidels] were killed in the World Trade Center. We targeted them because they were kaffirs, unbelievers.
Brigade leader Fawaz Bin Mohammed Al Nashmi in his account of Al Qaeda's capture of a foreign housing compound in Saudi Arabia and execution of 22 people said (wnd.com 6/11/04):
We were asking our brother Muslims, where are the Americans? And they showed us a building where companies have offices... We did find an American. I shot him in the head that exploded. Then we found a South African and we shot him, too. In our search for unbelievers, we had to exchange fire with the security forces... Thank God, we cleaned our land from unbelievers...
The third al-Qaida target was the Oasis Resort, a compound of homes, offices and recreation facilities. Nashmi said the insurgents ate lunch at the restaurant and then began executing non-Muslims. Al Nashmi said.
We went to the first floor and we found some unbelievers, We slaughtered them. Now the whole world knows that our goal is to clean our Muslim land.
One of many sources of Islamic hostility to the United States in addition to hatred of the infidel, is U.S. support of Israel, which they hate because they hate the Jewish infidel, yet when Richard Reid the shoe bomber was sentenced to life in prison on Jan. 30, 2003 he told the judge:
The American flag will come down and so will your country. You will be judged by Allah!... Your government has sponsored the torture of Muslims in Egypt and Turkey and Syria and Jordan with their money and weapons.
This sentence does not mention Israel at all. Richard Reid in his statement was holding the United States responsible for the actions of Egypt, Turkey, Syria and Jordan, all of whom are Muslim countries.
American Mosque's teach hate. Debbie Shlussel in her article Funding Islamic Hate tells of her frightening experience in a mainstream American mosque. She wrote
When I attended Qazwini's mosque on November 15, 1998, it was one of the most frightening, hate-filled occasions I've ever experienced.
Joel Mobray in an article
titled Jersey
Jihadists (frontpagemag 1/31/05) wrote about the radicalism of New Jersey
Mosques.
The former imam at the El Tawheed Islamic Center of Jersey City, Alaa Al-Sadawi, was convicted in July 2003 of attempting to smuggle more than $650,000 in cash to the terrorist Global Relief Fund in Egypt in April 2002.
One of Al-Sadawi’s former mosque-goers was convicted last March of murdering in the name of Islam. Alim Hassan, then 31, killed his pregnant wife, her mother, and her sister on July 30, 2002. He reportedly stabbed the women more than 20 times each because they refused to convert to Islam. According to reports, Hassan prayed regularly at El-Tawheed.
Al-Sadawi and Hassan were hardly the first Muslims in the area, though, to appear on authorities’ radar.
Mohamed El-Mezain , the former imam at the nearby Islamic Center of Passaic County, which has close relations with El-Tawheed, worked with the Paterson-based mosque to raise funds for Hamas in the mid-1990s, according to an FBI memo drafted in November 2001 by the FBI’s assistant director of counterterrorism Dale Watson. El-Mezain, who is no longer affiliated with the Islamic Center, was never charged or arrested.
The FBI document, which served as the basis for the U.S. government shutting down the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in December 2001, cited a “reliable” source in noting that “during a speech at the Islamic Center of Passaic County (ICPC) in November, 1994, Mohammad El-Mezain, the HLFRD’s current Director of Endowments and former Chairman of the HLFRD Board, admitted that some of the money collected by the ICPC and the HLFRD goes to Hamas or Hamas activities in Israel. El-Mezain also defended Hamas and the activities carried out by Hamas.”
El-Mezain also openly raised funds for Hamas, according to the FBI memo. After a speech at a Muslim rally in Southern California in the mid-90’s in which the keynote speaker urged attendees to “exterminate” and “finish off the Israelis,” El-Mezain asked for contributions and told the crowd that $1.8 million had been raised for Hamas in 1994 alone, according to the memo.
Radicalism at ICPC hardly seems to have subsided. The mosque in February 2003 hosted a lecture by Abdelhaleem Ashqar, long after he was identified by the FBI memo as a prominent Hamas figure.
Linda Chavez in her column "Enemies Within" (New York Post 11/7/01) wrote that:
In Cleveland, the head of the local Islamic Center, Fawaz Damra, was exposed recently for having called on fellow Palestinians in Chicago to donate money to Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group, this despite being the model of interfaith cooperation in Cleveland.
Although some members of the mosque's board wanted Damra to resign after the tape became public, his critics ended up being the ones forced out.
In 1991 a fundraiser for Islamic Jihad was held in Cleveland's Islamic Center.(What I Saw at Al Arian's Trial, frontpagemag.com 7/26/05)
It opened with cleric Fawaz Mohammed "Abu" Damra introducing al-Arian. Prior to becoming the Imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, Damra was the Imam of the Al-Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn, where he set up the flagship office of al-Qaeda co-founder Abdullah Azzam’s Alkifah Refugee Center. Damra stated that al-Arian was the head of the Islamic Committee for Palestine and described the ICP’s relationship to Islamic Jihad. ...
Al-Arian exhorted his followers to "not befriend Jews or Christians" and proceeded to let out a cascade of violent rhetoric aimed at Jews. He predicted the future destruction of the entire state of Israel, repeating the oft-used Palestinian mantra about their supposed claim to the land "from the sea to the river." He spoke of martyrs sacrificing themselves in the cause of Allah: "Thus is the way of jihad. Thus is the way of martyrdom. Thus is the way of blood, because this is the path to heaven." It was a side of al-Arian hidden for years behind the guise of academia and "interfaith" religious outreach.
Damra again took the microphone, urging the congregants to donate funds for jihad activities and for the families of martyrs. "This is the Islamic Jihad movement!" he stated. "Anyone like to donate for the Intifada? A knife to stab the Jews." The audience responded with thousands of dollars and shouts of "Allahu Akbar!" ("Allah is great!") They also broke out in song: "Khyber, Khyber, ya Yahood, jesh Mohammed sofa ya'ud." ("Khyber, Khyber, oh Jews, Mohammed’s Army will return.") This is a reference to the Saudi city of Khyber, where Mohammed’s followers attacked and enslaved its Jewish inhabitants in the year 628. The Cleveland congregation repeated this chant about four or five times.
After the attack on America of Sept 11 2001 the Imam at the Westchester Muslim Center in Mount Vernon, New York, gave a fiery sermon demanded Muslim unity above American flag-waving. (The Journal News Tuesday Nov. 6, 2001)
If you, dear reader have any curiosity about what is going on in your neighborhood mosque it might behoove you to heed the words of Yashiko Sagamori in his article Peacemongers and Jihadeers (Freeman center Broadcast 1/11/04). He wrote:
It isn't easy, by the way, to satisfy this kind of curiosity. While you, regardless of your religion or ethnicity, would be welcome in any church, synagogue, or Buddhist temple, mosques do not normally extend their hospitality to the “infidel”. In fact, Muslims believe that the mere presence of an “infidel” on the premises desecrates the mosque. Furthermore, some of them seriously think that until the violator is killed for his crime, the mosque cannot be cleansed. I suppose that different mosques exercise different strictness in defending themselves from unwanted visitors, and, in some of them, your life will not be threatened with imminent extinction. Nevertheless, I strongly recommend that you do not attempt to visit a friendly mosque in your multicultural neighborhood: better safe than sorry.
An October 17th 2001 report by the Middle East Media Research Institute quotes Sheik Muhammad Al-Gamei'a, Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque of New York City saying that:
4,000 Jews did not come to work at the World Trade Center on the day of the incident.
This news item was hushed up immediately after it was broadcast," he said. "The Jews who control the media acted to hush it up so that the American people would not know. If it became known to the American people, they would have done to the Jews what Hitler did.
He also said that:
All signs indicate that the Jews have the most to gain from an explosion like that. They are the only ones capable of planning such acts.
and that:
Because of them there are strip clubs and lesbians everywhere. We know that they have always broken agreements, unjustly murdered the prophets and betrayed the faith.
The shiek suddenly fled from New York City to Egypt two weeks after the attack on America of Sept. 11, 01.
Yasser Latif
Hamdani, an international student from
"The mind of fanaticism and bigotry that I have seen in American Muslims came as a shock to me… ISRU [Islamic Society of Rutgers University] is a prime example of the fanaticism that grips the American Muslim psyche. ISRU has consistently tried to hijack moderate Muslim groups such as the Pakistani and Turkish cultural clubs… It is consistent with the trends demonstrated by American mosques, which are little more than temples of bigotry."
According to WorldnetDaily (3/26/06) 14 Muslim chaplains received their religious training from a Saudi-backed entity, the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, or GSISS, in Leesburg, Va. WorldnetDaily quotes Frank Gaffney, director of the Center for Security Policy as saying that:
Last year, federal law enforcement led by Treasury Department officials raided the offices of GSISS, along with 23 other Muslim groups allegedly tied to terrorist groups.
The New York Post of (7/2/02) wrote that an investigation by the Times Union newspaper in Albany and a host of federal documents paint Al-Hanooti Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hanooti, the imam of the Islamic Center of the Capital District near Albany, as a major fund-raiser for Hamas and tie him to at least one of the World Trade Center bombers. Al-Hanooti's mosque was where Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman was said to deliver hate-filled speeches. According to an FBI memo:
It was well known in the Palestinian community in the northern New Jersey area that Al-Hanooti was an active Hamas supporter, purportedly holding fund-raising activities, as well as supporting visitors to the U.S. from Israel and Jordan, to speak on behalf of Hamas...
A Yemeni cleric Sheik Mohammed Al Hasan Al-Moayad, boasted that he provided Osama bin Laden with recruits, weapons - and millions of dollars he collected from businessmen who worshipped at the al-Farooq mosque on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and personally delivered the money to the terror chief - prior to the Sept. 11 attacks , according to a federal complaint (New York Post 3/5/03).
Islamic schools teach hate. Marc Fisher wrote an article called "Teaching Teenagers to Hate" (New York Post 10/19/01) about the Muslim Community School in Potomac, Maryland. Marc Fisher wrote:
Almost no matter what they were asked, the students' answers often included something about how the United States should focus not just on bin Laden's terror network but on "the real terrorists," which is their code for Israel, which they refer to as "the illegitimate Zionist regime... The principal [of the school] would not denounce bin Laden because he does not trust the U.S. government to judge the evidence. "Being cautious doesn't mean we are turncoats," said Kareen (the principal). "It means we want to wait until there are sufficient facts. I don't know Osama bin Laden. But whatever is said about him, I want it said about the Israeli prime minister. If we're going after terrorism, let's go at it at the roots, not the branches."
According to Marc Fisher several leaders of Muslim groups in Washington who wished to remain anonymous, said that this school is not typical. Yet the Washington Post reported on Feb 25, 2002 that in the elite Islamic Saudi Academy in Northern Virginia the textbooks tell the students that the Day of Judgment can't come until Jesus Christ returns to Earth, breaks the cross and converts everyone to Islam, and until Muslims start attacking Jews. The 11th-grade textbook, for example, says one sign of the Day of Judgment will be that Muslims will fight and kill Jews, who will hide behind trees that say: "Oh Muslim, Oh servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind me. Come here and kill him." Several students of different ages, all of whom asked not to be identified, said that in Islamic studies, they are taught that it is better to shun and even to dislike Christians, Jews and Shiite Muslims. Some teachers "focus more on hatred," said one teenager, who recited by memory the signs of the coming of the Day of Judgment. "They teach students that whatever is kuffar [non-Muslim], it is okay for you" to hurt or steal from that person. Other teachers present more tolerant views, students said.
In the same article the Washington Post reports how in the Al-Qalam All-Girls School in Springfield maps of the Middle East hang on classroom walls, but Israel is missing. According to the article:
Muslim elementary and high schools in the United States routinely teach religious hatred: One 11th-grade textbook, for example, says one sign of the Day of Judgment will be that Muslims will fight and kill Jews, who will hide behind trees that say: 'Oh Muslim, Oh servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind me. Come here and kill him.' Several students of different ages, all of whom asked not to be identified, said that in Islamic studies, they are taught that it is better to shun and even to dislike Christians, Jews and Shi'ite Muslims." In addition, "maps of the Middle East hang on classroom walls, but Israel is missing." And the article quotes a 19-year-old American Muslim student at George Mason University: "A lot of the [Muslim] students can't make up their minds if [Osama bin Laden] is a good guy or a bad guy."
The New York Daily News reported that (Response summer 2003, Vol. 24 #2)
Textbooks widely used in New York's Islamic schools contain passages that are blatantly antisemitic, condemning Jews as a people, repeating old canards about the Jews wanting to kill Christ and faking their Holy Scriptures to mock God.
The 23-year-old Virginia native Ahmed Omar Abu Ali accused of plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush in February 2005, went to school in an American High School that operates under the authority of the Saudi Arabian government and that teaches Wahabi Islam and that has ties to at least three other terrorists, two of them, like Ahmed Ali who are former students. (frontpagemag.com 2/24/05)
The following is a picture of a basketball game at the Muslim school in Bridgeview Illinois, from an article by Daniel Pipes called An American Madrassah, frontpagemag.com 6/20/05.
The following is an excerpt from a forward by R. James Woolsey to a Freedom House Publication titled Saudi Publications On Hate Ideology Fill American Mosques:
The Wahhabi textbooks in his country, like textbooks in Saudi Arabia, teach that it is the obligation of all Muslims to consider all infidels the enemy. As an illustration of the consequences of such teaching, I have heard that in some cases during the fighting in Bosnia in the early nineties, American churches and synagogues that were raising funds for food and other aid for the Bosnian Muslims would approach local mosques and suggest a cooperative effort. On a number of occasions they were turned down and didn’t understand why. The reason was that for a Wahhabi Imam (and Sheikh Kabbani, perhaps the U.S.’s leading moderate Muslim leader, says that a substantial percentage of American mosques have Wahhabi-funded Imams), it is normally not believed to be permissible for Muslims to work with infidels, even if the purpose is to help Muslims.
Muslims are taught to hate infidels so much that they can't even accept help from them!
The Freedom House Report gives many examples of such hate publications. One explains why it is important for Muslims to hate the infidel and condemns call to interfaith harmony. It states:
“The effect of this sinful call is that it erases the differences between Islam and disbelief, between truth and falsehood, good and bad, and it breaks the wall of resentment between the Muslims and the unbelievers, so that there is no loyalty and enmity, no more jihad and fighting to raise Allah’s word on earth….”
A Saudi text, distributed in the San Diego mosque declares,
“It is basic to the belief of Islam that everyone who does not embrace Islam is an unbeliever and must be called an unbeliever and that they are enemies to Allah, his Prophet and the believers….That is why the one who does not call the Jews and the Christian unbelievers is himself an unbeliever….”
Muslim students at the University of California posted hadiths that called for the death of Jews. The University of California removed those hadiths. The student reaction? Apology? No, outrage. The Muslim student union said: