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Propagation of Islam: By Force or Peacefully?exposes the baselessness or ignorance of his claim by asserting that Muslims had to launch the aggressivewar, because the rulers of Persia, Rome and Egypt had hindered the spread of the universal message of Islam;not because, they were under any threat from those two powerful empires. Then he cites a line, not the wholeletter, which Prophet Muhammad had sent to the rulers of those nations. Here is what Ibn Ishaq records aboutthe letter sent to Byzantine Emperor Heraclius: ‘The apostle’s letter with Dihya b. Khalifa al-Kalbi came toHeraclius saying, ‘If you accept Islam you will be safe; if you accept Islam, Allah will give you doublereward; if you turn back, the sin of the husbandmen will be upon you.’’ 138 Similarly, Muhammad’s letter tothe kings of Oman (noted already) demanded: ‘‘Embrace Islam, and you shall be safe… If you submit toIslam, you will remain kings, but if you abstain, your rule will be removed and my horses will enter yourarena to prove my prophecy.’’Contrary to what al-Qaradawi tells us, these letters sent by Muhammad to foreign kings andemperors were not meant for exhorting them to accept Islam through peaceful means. The central messagewas: Embrace Islam and you will be safe; if not, the wrath of Muhammad’s horsemen would befall them.These letters obviously threatened violence if those rulers refused to embrace Islam. This was unlike thepeaceful preaching of today’s Christian missionaries or the propagation of Buddhism since ancient times tothis day.Now let us agree with al-Qaradawi that the Prophet’s letter said, ‘if they rejected the call, they wouldbe responsible for misguiding their subjects.’ But how could the rejection of Muhammad’s letter ofsubmission to Islam by those rulers amount to misguiding their people? And what justifies attacking thoseforeign lands by Prophet Muhammad and later caliphs just because his letter of invitation was rejected? IfMuhammad’s protocol of spreading Islam was peaceful, instead of threatening them at the first instance andthen attacking them, he should have sent his missionary teams to those lands to invite the people to Islampeacefully. There is no mention in Islamic literature of any initiative undertaken by Muhammad and latercaliphs of sending preachers to Persia, Egypt and Byzantium for the peaceful propagation of Islam. Here iswhat second Caliph Omar al-Khattab wrote to the Iranian Sovereign, Yazdgerd III, demanding his submissionor face destruction:To the Shah of the Fars, I do not foresee a good future for you and your nation save youracceptance of my terms and your submission to me. There was a time when your country ruledhalf the world, but see how now your sun has set. On all fronts your armies have been defeatedand your nation is condemned to extinction. I point out to you the path whereby you mightescape this fate. Namely, that you begin worshipping the one god, the unique deity, the only godwho created all that is. I bring you his message. Order your nation to cease the false worship offire and to join us, that they may join the truth.Worship Allah the creator of the world. Worship Allah and accept Islam as the path of salvation.End now your polytheistic ways and become Muslims that you may accept Allah-u-Akbar asyour savior. This is the only way of securing your own survival and the peace of your Persians.You will do this if you know what is good for you and for your Persians. Submission is youronly option. 139Al-Qaradawi wants to tell us that if the American President rejects a letter calling for his submission to theuniversal message of Islam—say, from the Saudi King or Iranian President, America will then become alegitimate target for conquest by Muslims. Indeed, the messianic Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejadcalled on President Bush and the American people to convert to Islam twice in 2006. Similarly, the leaders of138. Ibn Ishaq, p. 655139. Letter of Omar, Khalifat of Arabs to Shahanshah of Persia; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnKbIyx96s;accessed 10 Sept, 200862
Islamic Jihadal-Qaeda have been making repeated calls to the infidel world, particularly the United States, to submit toIslam. Therefore, America is already a valid target for violent attack and conquest by Muslims for PresidentBush’s obstruction of the propagation of the universal message of Islam amongst Americans. Of course, al-Qaeda has already attacked the United States and continues its effort to attack her at every possibleopportunity to bring her down to the feet of Islam. If he has the power to defeat America, PresidentAhmadinejad will most likely attack the great Satan in the same way Muslim Arabs attacked his infidelancestors of Persia in the seventh century. Al-Qaradawi plainly supports such a notion in his arguments.Freeing weak countries from oppressive rulersOn his third point, al-Qaradawi says:Since Islam strives to free humans from being enslaved by other humans, it had a mission todeliver the weak people from suffering oppression at the hands of their powerful occupiers…Hence, Muslims, by Allah’s instructions, took it upon themselves to deliver the weak peoplefrom the oppressive foreign rule… The Byzantines in Egypt used to exploit the prosperity ofEgypt and oppress its people to such a degree that the Egyptians warmly welcomed the Muslims’opening (fath) of Egypt. In fact, the Muslims succeeded in entering Egypt and freeing it from theByzantine occupation with only 8,000 soldiers.It is most ridiculous on al-Qaradawi’s part to assert that ‘Islam strives to free humans from being enslaved byother humans,’ when the Quran most overtly sanctions slavery and that Muslims have remained the mastersof enslaving free men, women and children from the days of Prophet Muhammad to the present day (seeChapter VII). And once again, he negates his earlier claim that Muslims’ war against Persia and Byzantiumwas a defensive one to protect the sovereignty of the nascent Muslim state. Here, he clearly agrees thatMuslims waged an offensive war, but for an allegedly noble cause: for freeing the people, oppressed by thecruel Persian and Byzantine regimes.Did Prophet Muhammad and later Muslim rulers embark upon the conquest of foreign lands forfreeing the people from their oppressive rulers and overlords? There is no evidence at all to suggest so.Islamic literatures make no mention of a request to Prophet Muhammad or later Muslim rulers from thegovernor or the people of Egypt to save their country from the tyranny and oppression of their Byzantineoverlords. Neither is there any record of a plea from the people of Persia and Byzantium, entreating theProphet or later Muslim rulers, to liberate them from their oppressive and tyrannical rulers. Instead, when theProphet wrote his letter to the Egyptian governor in 628, his letter flatly threatened the governor that"embrace Islam and you will be safe". Muhammad made no mention of a noble desire to free Egypt and itspeople from Byzantine oppression.What one gathers from al-Qaradawi’s rebuttal of the allegations about Islam’s propagation throughviolence is that the Muslim invaders launched numerous wars against foreign lands for spreading theuniversal message of Islam amongst those peoples. In other words, he himself admits that Muslims raisedswords against foreign nations absolutely for spreading Islam—the universal message of Islam in his words.In his own arguments, the learned Sheikh himself establish the fact that Islam was indeed spread by thesword—the allegation, he had intended to refute at the outset.Removing tyranny and oppressionAl-Qaradawi further claims that those wars undertaken by Muslim rulers were intended for abolishing thetyranny and oppression of Persian and Byzantine rulers upon their people. Let us examine briefly what kindof justice and peace Muslim invaders brought to the conquered people, allegedly tyrannized and oppressed bytheir former rulers.63
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ISLAMICJIHADA Legacy of Forced Conv
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Islamic JihadPrefaceI was born and
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ContentsChapter I .................
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Islamic JihadOn Education and learn
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Jihad: The Controversies2-young Mus
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3-Basic Beliefs in IslamIslam is ba
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Life of Prophet Muhammad and the Bi
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Islamic Jihada big chunk of its cro
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Islamic Jihadland-tax (kharaj) fixe
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Islamic JihadMuslims, by converting
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Islamic JihadLikewise, the Arab Chr
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Islamic Jihad1. Did Arabs and their
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Islamic Jihadboast of enriching Ind
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Islamic JihadSavages at a very low
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Islamic Jihadobsession for white wo
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Islamic Jihadraised revolts. It has
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Islamic Jihadimperialist. Although,
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Chapter VIIslamic Imperialism in In
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Islamic Jihadlaments Ibn Warraq. Fo
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Islamic Jihadbeasts of prey. The tr
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Islamic Jihad4. Aurangzeb proceeded
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Islamic Jihadlarge numbers as a res
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Islamic JihadTo their credit, the I
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Islamic JihadWhereas among other na
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Islamic JihadIt is an extremely sig
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Islamic Jihadfound it ‘‘large a
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Islamic Jihadorthodox Hindu—Shiva
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Islamic JihadThe claim that a utopi
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Islamic JihadBritish Empire, the fo
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Islamic Jihadoutbreaks of religious
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Islamic Jihadstarted by the support
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Islamic Jihaddays (of Islam in Arab
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Islamic JihadIn the towns and villa
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Islamic Jihadrenewed, intensified v
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Islamic Jihadcases more than 85 per
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Islamic Jihadsciences and learning
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Islamic Jihadold environment, which
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Islamic Jihadeight more plundering
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Islamic Jihadcarried the heads of t
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Islamic JihadNo doubt there was som
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Islamic Jihadeconomic exploitation.
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Islamic Jihadrule, kind-hearted Jah
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Islamic Slaverybeings as a commodit
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Islamic SlaveryTHE PROPHETIC MODEL
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Islamic SlaveryAncient China. In an
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Islamic SlaveryDuring 715 to 1000 C
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Islamic SlaveryBihar, brought away
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Islamic Slaveryand marry them off d
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Islamic Slaverysuggest that the ens
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Islamic Slaveryten. In the assault
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Islamic Slavery‘The renowned king
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Islamic Slaverywomen and children,
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Islamic SlaveryThis is only an acco
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Islamic Slavery‘‘had her washed
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Islamic Slaveryattention, it killed
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Islamic Slavery85) built the famous
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Islamic Slaveryenslaved, but quite
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Islamic SlaveryEmployment in palace
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Islamic SlaveryTwo categories of wo
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Islamic Slavery‘‘I found myself
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Islamic SlaveryIt is noted already
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Islamic SlaveryAfter direct Muslim
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Islamic SlaveryAkbar were men of fo
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Islamic SlaveryThe most famous Euro
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Islamic SlaveryEUROPEAN SLAVE-TRADE
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Islamic Slaveryworld that continued
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Islamic SlaveryHumane treatment of
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Islamic Slaveryuntil the end of the
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Islamic Slaverybetween one and two
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Islamic Slaverythe death of 7,600 C
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Islamic SlaveryDisheartened by the
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Islamic Slaverydiplomatic duty in P
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Islamic Slaverynext morning, the ci
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Islamic SlaverySri Lanka, Egypt and
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The Last WordBeginning at the time
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The Last WordWe said (to non-Muslim
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The Last Word• Elst K (1993) Nega
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The Last Word• Rizvi SAA (1978) A
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IndexAmorium, 217, 241Amr, 28, 41,
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IndexHolocaust, 35Hubal, 10Hudaybiy
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IndexPhilippines, 100, 102, 103, 10
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