A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi
A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi
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eheading us, and who believe such acts are pious and will win them a ticket into Muslim heaven where<br />
scores <strong>of</strong> virgins await, anxious to provide them an orgasmic eternity. Survival dictates we not be oversensitive<br />
to the point we avoid viewing the actual history being played out before our very eyes. To<br />
‘Know Thine Enemy’, we need to see, feel, and understand these creatures, to solidify national support<br />
and bring our full military might to bear to end this thing as quickly as possible.<br />
The fact that Jihad means obligatory war for devout Muslims has been previously discussed in earlier<br />
chapters, proved using authentic Islamic sources. Muslims who commit acts <strong>of</strong> violence and terror against<br />
infidels can find ample justification for their actions, based on the teachings <strong>of</strong> the Qur’an and, more<br />
importantly, the example <strong>of</strong> their prophet. The prophet himself left a trail <strong>of</strong> assassinations and other<br />
bloody acts behind him until his own death, all <strong>of</strong> which are recorded by Muslim historians, which<br />
become a tradition among Muslims in the early centuries <strong>of</strong> its development. The growing body <strong>of</strong><br />
Islamic internet site proud postings <strong>of</strong> violent videos/pictures makes it disgustingly clear the practice is<br />
continuing through today. We now attempt to further clarify the mind and rational <strong>of</strong> Islamic militants<br />
carrying out so many terrible instances <strong>of</strong> beheadings. Unfortunately these cruel rituals are neither new,<br />
nor isolated incidents or aberrations.<br />
It is a perilous fact that the practitioners <strong>of</strong> the Muslim religion are taught a philosophy that<br />
encourages terrorism against civilians, and does not differentiate between innocent civilians and soldiers.<br />
The Geneva Conventions and conventional rules <strong>of</strong> war have no validity and are simply rejected by Jihad<br />
warriors, who believe they are immune because they operate under a higher law. Accordingly, all infidels<br />
without a treaty <strong>of</strong> protection (i.e. not already subdued and paying the Jizya tax) can be dealt with at the<br />
pleasure and discretion <strong>of</strong> the fighter. Options at his disposal include kidnapping and ransom, slavery<br />
(including sex slavery), or to simply torture and kill the poor soul.<br />
This review highlights some additional Islamic direction on the subject. The citations herein are but a<br />
small portion <strong>of</strong> the enormous amount <strong>of</strong> evidence indicating that killing noncombatants or captives<br />
appears supported by both Islamic principles and history. What is outlined herein should give Westerner<br />
civilians caught up in Jihad a clear idea <strong>of</strong> what he/she can expect from Islamic warriors, as well as what<br />
prisoners <strong>of</strong> war can expect from their Muslim captors.<br />
Many <strong>of</strong> the remaining citations were taken from an article by Andrew G. Bostom, Jihad Killings <strong>of</strong><br />
POWs and Non-Combatants, first published September 9, 2004 at frontpagemagazine.com.<br />
W.H.T. Gairdner, the renowned early 20th century scholar <strong>of</strong> Islam, wrote the following discussion <strong>of</strong><br />
Muhammad’s treatment <strong>of</strong> POWs, based exclusively on Muslim sources:<br />
"After Badr, especially, the greatest vindictiveness and bloodthirstiness were manifested. Many prisoners were<br />
slaughtered in cold blood, at least two <strong>of</strong> them at the personal insistence <strong>of</strong> Muhammad who had a special<br />
grudge against them. The most famous Companions (except Abu Bakr) were then the most truculent. One <strong>of</strong><br />
them was for burning the prisoners en masse! [Gairdner’s emphasis] The Prophet checked these excesses. But<br />
the very words in which he did so, the very limits set up, show clearly that defenseless prisoners might always<br />
be slaughtered in cold blood if they could not get anyone to redeem them. The Sura produced after the event<br />
(Q.8:67-68) explicitly commands the slaughter <strong>of</strong> prisoners on occasions when it is advisable to make an<br />
impression by ‘frightfulness’: on such occasions the sin would be to grow rich by accepting ransoms! And there<br />
is a whole series <strong>of</strong> traditions which make out that the ‘leniency’ shown at Badr was a sin, that Mohammed had<br />
been against that sin, humane Abu Bakr was the chief <strong>of</strong>fender, and that had that sin been punished, only the<br />
whole-hoggers who had urged the slaughter <strong>of</strong> all the prisoners (‘Umar and Sa’d) would have escaped…the<br />
Koran itself recommended the ransoming <strong>of</strong> war-captives as a form <strong>of</strong> charity suitable for rich Muslims. But the<br />
Badr alternative is always there in the background, and on suitable occasions may always be brought into the<br />
foreground. The prisoner <strong>of</strong> war is mubah damuhu: his life’s essentially forfeit." [33]<br />
A review <strong>of</strong> Egyptian high school textbooks in 2002 reveals the classical exegesis on these Qur’anic<br />
verses which is still being taught to students in non-Azharite (i.e. non-religious) as well as Azharite<br />
schools.<br />
"Studies in Theology: Tradition and Morals, Grade 11, (2001) pp. 291-92 ...This noble [Qur'anic] Surah [Surat<br />
Muhammad]... deals with questions <strong>of</strong> which the most important are as follows: 'Encouraging the faithful to<br />
perform jihad in God's cause, to behead the infidels, take them prisoner, break their power, and make their souls<br />
humble - all that in a style which contains the highest examples <strong>of</strong> urging to fight. You see that in His words: