A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

Chapter 6
Early History of Peaceful Islam
Islamic leaders and politicians constantly tell us in English that "Islam is a peaceful religion", but one
can’t help wondering if they would say it quite so often if they were absolutely sure it was true.
Some recorded massacres in Muslim history: Joseph HaNagid, the Jewish vizier of Granada,
Spain, was crucified on December 30, 1066 by an Arab mob, who then proceeded to raze the Jewish
quarter of the city and slaughter its 5,000 inhabitants. Apparently, Muslim preachers objecting angrily to
what they saw was inordinate Jewish political power, so they incited the riot. Similarly, in 1465, Arab
mobs in Fez slaughtered thousands of Jews, leaving only 11 alive, after a Jewish deputy vizier treated a
Muslim woman in "an offensive manner." The killings touched off a wave of similar massacres
throughout Morocco. Other mass murders of Jews in Arab lands occurred in Morocco in the 8th century,
where whole communities were wiped out by Muslim ruler Idris I; North Africa in the 12th century,
where the Almohads either forcibly converted or decimated several communities; Libya in 1785, where
Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews; Algiers, where Jews were massacred in 1805, 1815 and 1830
and Marrakesh, Morocco, where more than three hundred Jews were murdered between 1864 and 1880.
Decrees were issued and ordering the destruction of synagogues in Egypt and Syria (1014, 1293-4,
1301-2), Iraq (854-859, 1344) and Yemen (1676). Jews were forced to convert to Islam or face death in
Yemen (1165 and 1678), Morocco (1275, 1465, 1790-92) and Baghdad (1333, 1344). Some escaped, but
the Jews of Arabia who remained were pretty much completely wiped out. Islamic revisionists claim they
were killed because they were literally asking for it, is their apologetic rubbish propaganda. These Islamic
revisionists (Islamaniacs) claim that the Jews demanded it as per their own law. I mean, that’s like the
Nazis claiming they were only accommodating the Jews demand to get warm by the ovens. Like
Goebbels said, the bigger the lie, the easier it is for others to believe it.
Between 1894-96, the Ottoman Turks massacred over 200,000 (dhimmi) Christian Armenians,
followed by the first formal genocide of the 20th century, in 1915, at which time they slaughtered an
additional 600,000 to 800,000 Armenians. Contemporary accounts from European diplomats confirm that
these brutal massacres were perpetrated in the context of a formal Jihad against the Armenians who had
attempted to throw off the yoke of dhimmitude by seeking equal rights and autonomy. Regarding the
1894-96 massacres, the Turkish-speaking interpreter of the British embassy reported:
[The perpetrators] are guided in their general action by the prescriptions of the Sheri [Sharia] Law. That law
prescribes that if the "rayah" [dhimmi] Christian attempts, by having recourse to foreign powers, to overstep the
limits of privileges allowed them by their Mussulman [Muslim] masters, and free themselves from their
bondage, their lives and property are to be forfeited, and are at the mercy of the Mussulmans. To the Turkish
mind the Armenians had tried to overstep those limits by appealing to foreign powers, especially England. They
therefore considered it their religious duty and a righteous thing to destroy and seize the lives and properties of
the Armenians…"
The scholar Bat Ye’or confirms this reasoning, noting that the Armenian quest for reforms invalidated
their "legal status," which involved a "contract" (i.e., with their Muslim Turkish rulers).
This …breach…restored to the umma [the Muslim community] its initial right to kill the subjugated minority
[the dhimmis], [and] seize their property…
Jihad was a key aspect of pre-modern (pre 20 th century) Muslim life. According to one calculation,
Muhammad himself engaged in 78 battles, of which just one (the Battle of the Ditch) was defensive.
Within a century after the prophet's death, Muslim armies had reached as far as India in the east and Spain
in the west. Though such a dramatic single expansion was never again to be repeated, important victories
in subsequent centuries included the seventeen Indian campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazna (998-1030), the
battle of Manzikert opening Anatolia (1071), the conquest of Constantinople (1453), and the triumphs of
Uthman dan Fodio in West Africa (1804-1817). In brief, jihad as a doctrine and practice was fully
integrated into pre-modern Muslim life. The decisive turning point in the Western Europe’s long struggle
against pre-modern Islamic conquerors came on the afternoon of Sept. 12, 1683, during the last Turkish
siege of Vienna. The ever-heroic Poles marched to save Vienna while the French (surprise!) and other