By Patrick O'Brien

We were steadfast trusting in Him;
We saw nothing equal to God in the hour of our danger.
We have a prophet, a true helper,
By whom we can conquer all men1.

So Muhammad ibn Ishaq quoted the poetry of Dir¨¡r ibn al-Khatt¨¡b ibn Mird¨¡s in
his eighth century epic Sirat Rasul Allah (Life of the Apostle of God). It is a
poem about the storied "Battle of the Trench" (so-called because the Muslims dug
a defensive trench north of Medina) in which the Muslims, led by Muhammad,
roundly defeated the Meccan infidels of the Quraysh tribe (Muhammad's own tribe)
led by Abu Sufyan. This battle followed the battle of Uhud, wherein the Quraysh
routed the Muslims. The Battle of the Trench was the last chance, as it were, to
stop the magnificent military conquest machine called Islam.

Invigorated by their triumph over the Quraysh, the Muslims went on to besiege
the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe, who were rumored to be plotting against Muhammad.
This conflict was a leisurely walk in the sand dunes after the Battle of the
Trench. The Muslims were victorious, and upon winning, exhibited the
characteristic Islamic contempt for the unbeliever that has lasted to this day
through an utter lack of reform in the religion. The vanquished Jews forfeited
their property and goods. After their surrender, 600-900 of their men were
beheaded in the marketplace of Medina over ditches dug there. The women (who
weren't taken as concubines) and children were sold into slavery. Some were sold
to buy horses and weapons. The Qur'an succinctly records this horrific tale of
massacre, rapine, and enslavement in two verses2:

He [God ¡ªed.] brought down from their strongholds those who had supported them
[i.e., the Banu Qurayza Jews who had supported the Banu Quraysh Arabs ¡ªed.]
from among the People of the Book [Jews ¡ªed.] and cast terror into their
hearts, so that some you slew and others you took captive.

He made you masters of their land, their houses, and their goods, and of yet
another land [Khaybar¡ªanother conquest over a Jewish community in Arabia ¡ªed.]
on which you had never set foot before. Truly, God has power over all things.

This apparently made a significant impression on the Meccan Arabs, as Muhammad
then marched into Mecca and, meeting no resistance, triumphantly claimed it in
God's name. The rest, of course, is history¡ªa history that anyone with two good
eyes and a modicum of common sense can see being written and rewritten in
infidel blood today.

This is how the great world religion of Islam was established. It was founded
upon a sturdy bedrock of offensive war, unbending intolerance, disdainful
devaluation of the infidel, and divine justification for these positions,
reinforced by countless military victories under the black banner of jihad. The
Muslims were indeed a fearsome and destructive force. The mass transnational
conquests that followed the death of their warrior prophet rivaled those of the
Romans and the Mongolians, the latter of whom tellingly converted to Islam in
1295. WIthin two hundred years, Muslims had conquered half of the civilized
world¡ªquite a legacy for a violent glorified highway robber with delusions of
grandeur and an insatiable thirst for power. This spectacular series of Muslim
military defeats was fueled by the same three potent motivators that still drive
the mujahideen today:

God's ordination in the Qur'an and sunnah, charging Muslims with the holy
mission of making His word (i.e., shari'ah law) reign supreme in all lands, over
all people, for all times¡ªbecause they are superior to the enemies of God (the
infidels).
The win-win prospects of the mujahid Islamic holy warrior going to war
against the infidel: If he lives, he wins glory, material gain, sensual
pleasure, and supremacy. If he dies as a martyr for the faith, he wins the same
in Paradise¡ªsumptuous banquets with gold plates, wine (non-alcoholic, of
course), endless sex with doe-eyed perpetual virgins on luxurious cushions, lush
gardens of repose, all as the unbelievers are destined burn in hell.
An ever-increasing (although not so much these days) number of dazzling
victories over the unbelievers, confirming God's favor and the efficacy of holy
war.

Islam is impervious to reform and is still very much the bellicose, supremacist
ideology that it was when its barbarian believers hurtled, sword and Qur'an in
hand, out of the Arabian Peninsula toward victory and the demise of every
culture and society it encountered. It's still the same, and now it's more
dangerous than ever because it has been supremely humiliated by the kuffar
(infidels) that Muslims have always looked down upon with disgust. The ferocity
of the pride that comes with always winning, especially winning for God, should
never be underestimated once it is ground in the dirt of reality. With the final
dissolution of the thirteen hundred year-old Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) in
1924¡ªwhich Muslims attribute to the West's animus toward Islam¡ªthe
long-smoldering fire of jihad was rekindled anew. To us, it was just business,
and we now feel remorse over any suffering we may have caused. To Muslims, it
was a resounding slap in the face¡ªthe kind of slap they had grown used
to giving out.

The undeniable success of the industrial, largely secularized, democratic West
effected a painful cognitive dissonance in the Muslim psyche, as it became more
and more clear that something had gone terribly awry with God's mission of
conquest and subjugation. The supremacy of the infidel on such a grand scale was
something that Islam's earlier indomitability had simply not prepared Muslims to
face, notwithstanding the protracted death of the sick Ottoman of Europe.

The decadence (suffrage, truly representative law, greater social freedoms and
rights, etc.) that was brought about as a result of the West's prosperity and
higher standard of living and health put the capstone on the edifice of the
great Satan of the modern Islamic mythos. Again, Islam has never seen even the
ghost of a true reform movement, let alone an enlightenment. It is ill-equipped
to assimilate into the modern age of pluralism, tolerance, freedom, and civil
rights under the rule of man-made law. In fact, democracy, along with its
attendant benefits and advantages, falls under the Islamic designation of shirk.
Loosely translated as "polytheism," this term refers to anything that is given
the respect, honor, or obeisance that is due to God alone. This is Islam's
ultimate sin.

What every infidel should understand is that each Muslim believes that he or she
is part of a grand mission from God to spread Islam by word or sword. Islamic
missionary work is called da'wah, with the ultimate goal of the entire Earth
being governed by Islamic theocracy. If da'wah does not suffice to fulfill this
goal, there is the recourse of jihad (holy war). This doesn't by any means make
every Muslim a terrorist. It just fosters a mind-set among the believers that
makes it difficult for them to countenance the superiority of the infidel way of
life. It also provides religious sanction to support the violent overthrow of
that way of life, wherever and whenever possible.

The infidel should also be aware that there is no separation of mosque and state
in Islam¡ªevery last detail of human experience and endeavor is administered
under shari'ah law. This is why Muslims say that Islam is not just a religion,
but a complete way of life. That's what it is. How you go to the bathroom, make
love to your spouse, punish those who transgress against God's will, give to
charity (Islamic charity), go to war, eat, wash, borrow money, treat
infidels¡ªin short, anything you may do in the course of being alive¡ªis
strictly regulated by the shari'ah. Life for the Muslim is a complex series of
bizarre rituals and habits that are commanded by God and His apostle. Islam is
the obsessive-compulsive disorder of religions.

Thus, Islam is distinguished from one its parents, Christianity, which actually
does allow for genuine freedom and tolerance.

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the
things which be God's.3.

In contrast to the Qur'an, sunnah, and shari'ah, there is no inherent conflict
in the Gospels between living a devout life and living in equality and harmony
under the rule of law alongside others who may believe differently. It should
also be noted that nowhere in the New Testament are Christians enjoined to make
war against non-Christians to establish the supremacy of the Christian faith.
Christians who kill in Christ's name are acting against his teachings, while
Muslims who kill in their God's name are dutifully following Muhammad's
teachings (and example).



Whether or not a Muslim is physically fighting on one of the innumerable
battlefields of jihad in the world is a somewhat academic point when considering
Islam's claims of entitlement to supremacy over all other peoples and their
social, political, and religious systems. To be sure, the majority of Muslims
are peaceable people who contribute positively to society. What counts, though,
is that all Muslims have immovable faith that the world and the future belong to
them and their crazy God. They believe that achieving this object justifies the
mainstream Islamic institution of violent, offensive jihad. Whether a Muslim
fights with the Kalashnikov, pays the expenses for the Muslim who fights with
the Kalashnikov, or simply cheers for him, the bottom line is that they are both
on the same team, and we are the opposing team. And the strange and scary thing
is that they genuinely believe that their violence and intolerance is holy and
pleasing to God.

Here's the lowdown on the Weltanschauung of the Islamic faithful, plain and
simple: Islam is the one true faith, infidels are scum, and it is a religious
duty incumbent on the ummah (Muslim community) to make war against them until
Islam (submission to God's will) is the supreme force in the world.

But is this just reflexive bigotry¡ªa cheap and mean-spirited attempt to drag
the good name of Muslims and their religion of peace through the mud of ignorant
spite? What does the Qur'an say about all this? After all, the Qur'an is the
first and last word in what Muslims believe, think, and do. Sura 9, Repentance,
is quite instructive:

Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures were given as believe not
in God nor in the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and His apostle have
forbidden, and do not embrace the true Faith, until they pay tribute out of hand
and are utterly subdued.
The Jews say Ezra is the son of God, while the Christians say the Messiah is the
son of God. Such are their assertions, by which they imitate the infidels of
old. God confound them! How perverse they are!4


It is He who has sent forth His apostle with guidance and the True Faith that
he may exalt it above all religions, though the idolaters abhor it.5

Believers, why is it that when you are told: 'March in the cause of God,' you
linger slothfully in the land? ...
If you do not go to war, He will punish you sternly, and will replace you by
other men. You will in no way harm Him: for God has power over all things.6

Whether unarmed or well-equipped, march on and fight for the cause of God,
with your wealth and with your persons. This will be best for you, if you but
knew it.7

Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously
with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate.8

God has purchased from the faithful their lives and worldly goods, and in
return has promised them the Garden. They will fight for the cause of God, they
will slay, and be slain. Such is the true promise which He has made them in the
Torah, the Gospel and the Koran. And who is more true to his pledge than God?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the supreme triumph.9

It is not right that all the faithful should go to war at once. A band from
each community should stay behind to instruct themselves in religion and to
admonish their men when they return, so that they may take heed.

Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with
them. Know that God is with the righteous.10

Equally clear on the matter of Islam's violent, totalitarian, expansionist
agenda is the second source of Islamic law after the Qur'an: the hadith (the
written collections of sunnah¡ªthe traditions and precedents of Muhammad and his
companions):

Allah's Apostle said, 'I have been ordered to fight the people till they say:
'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, 'and whoever said, 'None has the
right to be worshipped but Allah', Allah will save his property and his life
from me, unless (he does something for which he receives legal punishment)
justly, and his account will be with Allah.11

A morning or an evening spent in the Path of Allah is better than the world
and all it contains.12

O you who believe! Take not my enemies And your enemies as friends offering
them (your) love even though they have disbelieved in the Truth (i.e. Allah,
Prophet Muhammad and this Quran) which has come to you ....(to the end of
Verse)....(And whosoever of you does that, then indeed he has gone astray from
the Straight Path." Qur'an 60:1)13

The Prophet passed by me at a place called Al-Abwa or Waddan, and was asked
whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the
probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied,
"They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. pagans)."14

It has been narrated on the authority of Uqba b. Amir who said: I heard the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) say: Lands shall be thrown open to
you and Allah will suffice you (against your enemies), but none of you should
give up playing with his arrows.15

The Prophet said, on the day of the Conquest of Mecca, "There is no migration
(after the Conquest), but Jihad and good intentions, and when you are called for
Jihad, you should immediately respond to the call."16

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: The best of the actions is to love for
the sake of God and to hate for the sake of God.17

And to bring the point home, let's return to the Qur'an:

The basest creatures in the sight of God are the faithless who will not
believe...18

Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God's religion reigns
supreme. But if they desist, fight none except the evil-doers.19

You are the noblest community ever raised up for mankind. You enjoin justice
and forbid evil. You believe in God.

Had the People of the Book accepted the Faith, it would surely have been
better for them. Some are true believers, but most are evil-doers.20

Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends. They
are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship shall become
one of their number. God does not guide the wrongdoers.21

It will be clear to any reasonable person, through an objective, contextual
reading of the Qur'an, hadith, and shari'ah (along with the daily news), that
the infidel is an inferior being to be despised, shunned, subdued, killed, or
converted. The position of Islam, vis-¨¤-vis anyone or anything non-Islamic is
one of intolerant hatred (for God's sake) and violence. Such is the anti-human
message of Islam's hateful deity, as manifest and promulgated in the brutal
jihad lifestyle of a hateful, bloodthirsty desert sheikh, whose life is emulated
by Muslims to this day. The hateful book which laid the groundwork for the
fourteen centuries of violence and subjugation visited upon the infidel¡ªand the
obliteration of infidel culture¡ªhas never been revised or considered anything
less than God's immutable word for all men at all times. Those who have
challenged this view have paid dearly, and still do.

There is no tolerance where Islam reigns. The Jews and Christians who have been
unfortunate enough to live as second-class dhimmis ("protected" or "guilty"
people) under the Islamic state were routinely humiliated, overtaxed, derided,
dispossessed, and were helpless to defend themselves from Muslim wrath or
cruelty. This is the fulfillment of sura 9:29 which we saw above, and it is a
matter of historical record22, contrary to the modern multicultural facade of an
Islamic tolerance that simply did not exist in Muslim occupied Spain, Egypt, the
Balkans, Greece, Israel, and beyond. The People of the Book (Jews and
Christians) who scraped by under their Muslim overlords weren't "living in
peace," as today's Western useful idiots for Islam claim. They lived in fear and
misery. The money extorted from them¡ªthe jizya poll tax¡ªin exchange for being
allowed to cower in their homes, practicing their faith out of sight, was used
to fund the jihad war chest. When they couldn't pay the jizya,
they were sometimes compelled to give up their children who were converted to
Islam or enslaved. If they were found guilty of breaking their covenant of
"protection" with the Islamic state (a guilt which was all but assured, seeing
as they had no standing in a shari'ah court against a Muslim), they were
executed or sold into slavery. This is all in accordance with God's writ in the
Qur'an, and Muhammad's degenerate example in the sunnah, and it continues today.

In the last two centuries, the world has undergone tremendous and tumultuous
change, much of it for the better. Islam hasn't changed with the it. Most of us
have left the Middle Ages far behind where they belong. We've learned, and are
still learning, that our faiths, our laws, and our ways of thinking can be
amenable to pluralism, progress, and forbearing brotherhood with our fellow
human beings, irrespective of race, sex, creed, or ethnicity. Those of us who
are religious have discovered such qualities to be consonant with the principles
of our respective faiths, affirming them even. Those of us who are of a more
secular bent find that this new and positive position of tolerance is simply
noble and just. This is the wheat we have begun winnowing from the chaff of our
pre-Enlightenment/pre-American democracy history. The progress is not as quick
as some would like, but it is progress nevertheless.

By contrast, Islam's inflexible, retrograde dogma still nurtures xenophobia,
gender apartheid, hatred, and violence against the unbeliever wherever it gains
a toehold in a society's consciousness. Its totalitarian program for God is
totally hostile to the most fundamental principles of Western liberal democracy,
which is self-evidently the fairest and most beneficial way of life yet
conceived. This is not bigotry or islamophobia (especially seeing as it is a
line of argument against Islam, not Muslims). It is an objective assessment of
Islam's past, present, and certain future if it is not challenged from without
and radically changed from within.

The longer we abide Crusades guilt-stricken academics and America-hating
¨¹berleftists apologizing for Islam in its current (ancient) unreformed state,
the more it will threaten our hard-earned and fought for way of life. More
infidels will die for being "the basest creatures in the sight of God," and more
Muslims will suffer and die for not being the right kind of Muslim. Now is the
time for those of us who can be truthful and compassionate to confront
Islamosupremacy, to repel the ideological jihad which has vitiated our media,
our universities, and even our governments. It will not go away if it is ignored
or placated. 20+ current jihad fronts in the world today, not to mention the
Arab and Ottoman subjects of old Europe, northern Africa, and south Asia attest
to that.

Footnotes
1The Life of Muhammad, trans. A. Guillaume, 1955, Oxford University Press,
Karachi
2Qur'an [The Koran, With Parallel Arabic Text, trans. N.J. Dawood, 2000,
Penguin, London] 33:26-27
3Luke 20:25, KJV
4Qur'an 9:29-30
5Qur'an 9:33
6Qur'an 38-39
7Qur'an 9:41
8Qur'an 9:73
9Qur'an 9:111
10Qur'an 9:122-23
11Sahih Bukhari 9.84.59
12Sahih Bukhari and Muslim
13Sahih Bukhari 5.59.572
14Sahih Bukhari 4.52.256
15Sahih Muslim 57.20.4712
16Sahih Bukhari 4.52.311
17Sunan Abu-Dawud, 40.4582
18Qur'an 8:55
19Qur'an 2:193
20Qur'an 3:110
21Qur'an 5:51
22The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam, Bat Ye'or, 1985, Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press

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