Jihad Watch: Islam 101

Excerpt: Dar al-Islam and dar al-harb: the House of Islam and the House of War

The violent injunctions of the Quran and the violent precedents set by Muhammad set the tone for the Islamic view of politics and of world history. Islamic scholarship divides the world into two spheres of influence, the House of Islam (dar al-Islam) and the House of War (dar al-harb). Islam means submission, and so the House of Islam includes those nations that have submitted to Islamic rule, which is to say those nations ruled by Sharia law. The rest of the world, which has not accepted Sharia law and so is not in a state of submission, exists in a state of rebellion or war with the will of Allah. It is incumbent on dar al-Islam to make war upon dar al-harb until such time that all nations submit to the will of Allah and accept Sharia law. Islam's message to the non-Muslim world is the same now as it was in the time of Muhammad and throughout history: submit or be conquered. The only times since Muhammad when dar al-Islam was not actively at war with dar al-harb were when the Muslim world was too weak or divided to make war effectively.

 

But the lulls in the ongoing war that the House of Islam has declared against the House of War do not indicate a forsaking of jihad as a principle but reflect a change in strategic factors. It is acceptable for Muslim nations to declare hudna, or truce, at times when the infidel nations are too powerful for open warfare to make sense. Jihad is not a collective suicide pact even while "killing and being killed" (Sura 9:111) is encouraged on an individual level. For the past few hundred years, the Muslim world has been too politically fragmented and technologically inferior to pose a major threat to the West. But that is changing.

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Islamic State = Islam, Behold the Face of Islam (Son of Hamas)

Wherever I go in the world, people ask me about ISIS. And I advise them to ignore the endless debates about the peaceful versus violent nature of Islam and take a long, hard look at the Islamic State. ISIS is Islam, exposed in all its cruelty and ugliness, unchanged since Muhammad. The atrocities committed by ISIS are merely an extension of the atrocities committed by Islam's prophet. The true Five Pillars of Islam are: Slaughter, Intolerance, Oppression, Hatred, and Global Dominion, because Muhammad was a slaughterer, intolerant, oppressive, hateful, and drove his armies to destroy everything and everyone that stood in the way of his establishment of a world caliphate. Muhammad said to the people of Mecca, "I have brought slaughter to you," then he beheaded every male, young and old. ISIS immolated Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh, because Muhammad burned people alive. When the leader of the Jewish Bani al-Nadir tribe refused to reveal the location of his tribe's treasures, Muhammad ordered his soldiers to "Torture him until you extract what he has." So a fire was built on the chest of Kinanah bin al-Rabi. Again, when some of his men resisted Muhammad's planned attack against the Byzantines at Tabuk, the prophet commanded that they be burned alive in the house where they were meeting. ISIS enslaves and rapes women because Muhammad did, even when he took a six-year-old little girl as his wife and consummated their union when she turned nine. ISIS mutilates and crucifies men, women, and children because its prophet did. ...

The only difference between 1,400 years of slaughter by Muslims, who follow the practices of Muhammad, and the carnage carried out today by ISIS is that today's atrocities are broadcast throughout the world by social media. Unexpectedly, social media has also made ISIS a blessing to the Muslim world, enabling Muslims to see the true face of Islam. Hatred is what your religion requires of you, not just ritual washings. Slaughter is what your prophet demands of you, not just daily prayers. To follow Islam is to commit your life to jihad, to the destruction or subjugation of all non-Muslims in the name of the god of Islam. But thanks to ISIS, you can free yourself from the lies of Hezbollah, Hamas, and Al-Jazeera, if you have the courage. They cannot protect you from a western conspiracy, because there is none. Your enemy is Islam, not America. When you recognize that ISIS is Islam, you free yourself from the naiveté of world leaders who tell you that ISIS is an anomaly of Islam, leaders that, I am sorry to say, include US President Barack Obama, who told CNN's Fareed Zakaria recently that, "There is an element growing out of Muslim communities in certain parts of the world that have perverted the religion, have embraced a nihilistic, violent, almost medieval interpretation of Islam." But it is those who deny that Islam is "nihilistic, violent, almost medieval" who have perverted the religion. ISIS is Islam. Religion by the sword. Religion by intolerance and violence. Religion commanded by its prophet to conquer the world, behead apostates, mutilate thieves, crucify nonmuslims, and stone everyone that engages in sexual relations that disagree with Muslim laws and practices. ISIS has torn the mask from Islam, giving the Muslim world a choice for the first time in fourteen centuries. Choose Islam, and you choose ISIS, because they are indistinguishable. Reject ISIS, and you reject Islam, because they are one. ... Islam hates everything that is not Islam. And just as fresh water and salt water cannot flow from the same spring, love and goodness cannot flow from a religion that is established on hatred and violence." - Behold the face of Islam, Son of Hamas (emphases added)

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Hamas founder's son speaks out against terrorist group (Free Video)

Mosab Hassan Yousef... is a Palestinian who worked undercover for Israel's internal security service Shin Bet from 1997 to 2007. Shin Bet considered him its most valuable source within the Hamas leadership: the information Yousef supplied prevented dozens of suicide attacks and assassinations of Israelis, exposed numerous Hamas cells, and assisted Israel in hunting down many militants, including his own father, a Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef. In March 2010, he published his autobiography titled Son of Hamas. In 1999 Yousef converted to Christianity, and in 2007 moved to the United States. - Wikipedia, Feb. 23, 2015

The Restoration of the Jews (Israel) In Reformed Eschatology (Free MP3s, Videos, etc.)

The Atlantic: "The Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic."

Excerpt: "The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. ... the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam. (It is an ugly lie to say otherwise. - ed.) ... Muslims who call the Islamic State un-Islamic are typically, as the Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, the leading expert on the group's theology, told me, 'embarrassed and politically correct, with a cotton-candy view of their own religion' that neglects 'what their religion has historically and legally required. ... According to Haykel, the ranks of the Islamic State are deeply infused with religious vigor. Koranic quotations are ubiquitous. 'Even the foot soldiers spout this stuff constantly,' Haykel said. 'They mug for their cameras and repeat their basic doctrines in formulaic fashion, and they do it all the time.' He regards the claim that the Islamic State has distorted the texts of Islam as preposterous, sustainable only through willful ignorance. 'People want to absolve Islam,' he said. 'It's this 'Islam is a religion of peace' mantra. As if there is such a thing as 'Islam'! It's what Muslims do, and how they interpret their texts.' Those texts are shared by all Sunni Muslims, not just the Islamic State. 'And these guys have just as much legitimacy as anyone else.'

All Muslims acknowledge that Muhammad's earliest conquests were not tidy affairs, and that the laws of war passed down in the Koran and in the narrations of the Prophet's rule were calibrated to fit a turbulent and violent time. In Haykel's estimation, the fighters of the Islamic State are authentic throwbacks to early Islam and are faithfully reproducing its norms of war. This behavior includes a number of practices that modern Muslims tend to prefer not to acknowledge as integral to their sacred texts. 'Slavery, crucifixion, and beheadings are not something that freakish [jihadists] are cherry-picking from the medieval tradition,' Haykel said. Islamic State fighters 'are smack in the middle of the medieval tradition and are bringing it wholesale into the present day.'

The Koran specifies crucifixion as one of the only punishments permitted for enemies of Islam. The tax on Christians finds clear endorsement in the Surah Al-Tawba, the Koran's ninth chapter, which instructs Muslims to fight Christians and Jews 'until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.' The Prophet, whom all Muslims consider exemplary, imposed these rules and owned slaves.

Leaders of the Islamic State have taken emulation of Muhammad as strict duty, and have revived traditions that have been dormant for hundreds of years."

The Imaginary Islamic Radical (Is There Really Such A Thing As A Moderate Muslim?) by Daniel Greenfield

But what makes an Islamic radical, extremist? Where is the line between ordinary Muslim practice and its extremist dark side?

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Obama Claimed Islam is Peaceful and Christianity Violent at Event Attended by Muslim Regime that Killed Christians

Obama says, "No God condones terror." Yet Muhammad is depicted in a hadith as having said: "I have been made victorious through terror" (Bukhari 4:52.220). And the Qur'an says: "Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemiesŠ" (8:60)

Those passages and others like them expose the vacuity of his invocation of the Crusades and Inquisition. Yes, indeed, in both, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. But in committing them, they could not and did not justify them by invoking Christian texts and teachings, because there were no such texts and teachings justifying those terrible deeds. That stands in sharp contrast to the Islamic jihadists who regularly invoke the Qur'an to justify their actions. - Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch

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Why Is the Islamic State (ISIS) Behaving So Brutally? by Robert Spencer (Free Online Article)

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Islamic Jihad and Why So Many Politicians, Educators and the Media Don't Understand Islam or the Muslim Mind (Free Christian MP3s, Videos and Books)

Islam In The Bible by Dr. Francis Nigel Lee (Free Christian MP3s, Videos and Books)

Islam (Muslims) In Bible Prophecy, In the Book of Revelation (Free Christian MP3s, Videos and Books)

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, IS) Burning Video Laced With Symbolism

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Burned Alive: Muslim Persecution of Christians by Raymond Ibrahim

Muslim's (Islam) Persecuting and Murdering Christians, Even Beheading Christian Children (Free MP3, Videos, etc.)

ISIS Burns Jordanian Pilot to Death

A Thousand Churches Destroyed By Islam in Nigeria

Islam in Revelation: An Historic Look at Protestant Eschatological Thought on the Rise and Fall of Islam by E. B. Elliott, Alexander M'Leod, David Steele et al.

Suppose Islam Had a Holocaust and No One Noticed by Daniel Greenfield

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Islamic State Terrorists Slaughter 13 Teen Boys for Breaking One of Its Oppressive Islamic Laws

Excerpt: "For 13 teenage boys in the Iraqi city of Mosul, watching the Asian Cup soccer match between Iraq and Jordan would reportedly cost them their lives. Under the Islamic State's barbaric ideology, the act of watching the game on television was an offense punishable by death. The young boys were grabbed by terrorists and then publicly executed by a firing squad, according to the activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently. Before being shot to death by machine guns, the terrorists reportedly announced the boys' "crime" of breaking religious laws by watching sports over a loud speaker. The activist group added, "The bodies remained lying in the open and their parents were unable to withdraw them for fear of murder by terrorist organisation."

The Islamic State and Islam by Raymond Ibrahim

Muhammad and Islam's Sex Slaves by Raymond Ibrahim

Beheading Infidels: How Allah 'Heals the Hearts of Believers' by Raymond Ibrahim

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Muslim's (Islam) Persecuting and Murdering Christians, Even Beheading Christian Children (Free MP3, Videos, etc.)

Understanding Islamic Jihad, Islam, Sharia Law, Etc., by Dr. Peter Hammond and Others (Free Videos and MP3s)

Islam In The Bible by Dr. Francis Nigel Lee (Free MP3s and Books

Muslim Cleric Urges Destitute Women to Become Sex-Slaves By Raymond Ibrahim, The Sex Jihad, Dangers of Sharia Law, Islam in Revelation, etc.

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