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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