The Management of Savagery / “We’ll cut off your head if you say we’re violent”.
Tommy Robinson recounts his first childhood awareness of Muslims. In his school dining hall, all the children from all backgrounds mucked in together all over the place, except in the far corner, huddled amongst themselves, were the Muslims. Quite clearly, nothing bad happened to him here. This was not a traumatic childhood experience that would scar someone for life. Yet, it is easy to see how this would leave a lasting impression on him.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali recounts a particular experience with her madrassa teachers that is almost identical to an experience of mine. As a teenager, she had asked her teacher’s advice on her friendships with Christians:
What should we do about the friends we loved and felt loyal to, but who refused to accept our da’wah (invitation to the faith)? In response, we were reminded repeatedly about the clarity of the Prophet’s instructions. We were told in no uncertain terms that we could not be loyal to Allah and Muhammad, while also maintaining friendships and loyalty towards the unbelievers. If they explicitly rejected our summons to Islam, we were to hate and curse them.
Where I grew up, before Muslim children begin forming friendships, they are made to understand that non-Muslim people are dirty, that Muslims are not to eat their food or lend them their utensils, that Muslims are not to wear non-Muslims’ clothes, or their own clothes that had been worn by non-Muslims, no matter how thoroughly those clothes may have been washed. We were not to sleep over at their houses. The families around us, including our immediate neighbours, were Christians. There was one Hindu family not far away.
In high school, I needed a signature from someone of standing in the community. The closest such person I knew was our imam, who lived in the next street. My school friend went along with me to the imam’s house. I introduced the imam to my friend, who, both by his name and his appearance, was obviously Christian. The imam was cordial and helpful enough, and we left with signature in hand. It was Thursday night.
The next day, during the Friday sermon, the imam was uncharacteristically agitated and becoming increasingly so, until he thundered, “Some of us even have Christian friends!” If the shoe fits, they say. I was stunned and felt betrayed. I also felt ashamed and never shared this story with my friend.
The concerned gentlemen of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have discovered in the country they had just overrun, an education system that exposes Muslim children to that from which they are to be protected: friendship with non-Muslims. Being the best of Muslims, they are well aware that closeness to non-Muslims (the kufaar/unbelievers/infidels) is haram, forbidden. It is not enough for the Muslim to be neutral towards the kufaar, for neutrality can lead to curiosity, which can lead to interest, which can lead to admiration, which can lead to imitation, and as every Muslim knows, “to be like them is to be of them.” The surest way to avoid this slippery slope is to avoid them and to hate them.
So the millions of Muslim “refugees” that the gullible, naïve, ignorant, and self-righteous Westerners rush to embrace, convinced of having saved them from certain death in Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc, invite nothing less than that they be abused for the filth that those migrants see them as. “Thou wilt not find folk who believe in Allah and the Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and His messenger” (Qur’an 58:22).
Now the Western reader unfamiliar with Islam might think, but I do not oppose Allah. Muslims have the right to practice their faith just like anyone else, and they would mean it in all good faith. But to the Muslim, practising any other faith is opposing Allah. The only way Muslim hatred towards their infidel helpers will change is for those helpers become Muslim, because:
They long that ye should disbelieve even as they disbelieve, that ye may be upon a level (with them). So choose not friends from them till they forsake their homes in the way of Allah; if they turn back (to enmity) [“reverts” beware, AP] then take them and kill them wherever ye find them, and choose no friend nor helper from among them (4:89).
During every prayer, a Muslim pledges to Allah: “You alone we worship and you alone we ask for help.” A non-Muslim offering help to a Muslim when the Muslim does not need it is therefor especially threatening to that Muslim’s faith, deeply offensive, and liable to elicit an aggressive response. If, however, accepting help is unavoidable, then it is not a problem for a Muslim to accept help from a kafir, provided he takes extra care never to be thankful, for this will weaken his faith. The solution to any temptation to be thankful is to hate those kufaar who help you all the more. From time to time we read tragic stories of kindly, generous Western folk who have opened their hearts and homes to Muslim “refugees”, several months later to end up stabbed to death in their sleep. Note that such help is not to be confused welfare state benefits. These the Muslims exploit to the full, because Muslims are supposed to live at the expense of non-Muslims.
Their religion requires Muslims not only to hate and to never trust the kufaar, but also to conceal their hatred and mistrust beneath a pretence of friendship. “O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them” (Qur’an 5:51). The Qur’an further cautions:
Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoso doeth that, hath no connection with Allah unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them, taking (as it were) security. Allah biddeth you beware (only) of Himself. Unto Allah is the journeying, (3:28) (My emphasis).
Hate them, but smile if you need to deceive them. Ibn Kathir, in his exegesis of Qur’an 3:28, makes clear that Muslims who fear that the kufaar might suspect their insincerity:
Are allowed to show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda’ said, “We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.” Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, “The Tuqyah [Taqiyya, AP] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection,” (Tafsir Ibn Kathir, 3:28) (My emphasis).
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will ensure that Muslim schoolchildren are spared such predicaments.
Measures to end friendships with non-Muslims
- Change “those who have evoked anger and those who are astray” to “those who strayed from the path of goodness (Jews and Christians)”.
During every prayer, a Muslim petitions Allah to “Guide us on the straight path, the path of those whom you have favoured; not of those who have earned your anger upon themselves and nor of those who have gone astray”. The measure makes explicit whom the petition refers to. During every prayer, the child will henceforth remind himself or herself that they need nothing less than God’s protection against Jews and Christians, who would otherwise lead them away from Islam. - Replace “met Prophet Shu’ayb, peace be upon him” with “the righteous man”
Shu’ayb is the prophet of the Druze. The formulation to be replaced is offensive to Muslims in two ways: it claims prophethood for someone who came after Muhammad, “the seal of the prophets”; it salutes Shu’ayb with “Peace be upon him,” a salutation strictly reserved for Muhammad. Yet, it is more than just a salutation. It is obligatory on every Muslim to always, without fail, issue this salutation, or a near-variant of it, whenever they utter or write the name of their prophet, or hear it uttered or see it written. It is considered the utmost disrespect to not do so. Muslim children will now be taught that the Druze corrupt their most hallowed salutation.
This is the beginning of the perversion of the Muslim’s emotions: love what Allah loves; hate what Allah hates. By the time their classmates’ fathers have to pay Jizya, they will know that that is how it should be.
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Picture credits:
https://qz.com/660994/a-60-year-old-christian-woman-was-caned-in-indonesia-for-breaking-sharia-law
https://www.zawaj.com/askbilqis/reading-quran-in-english/
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Cover of The Management of Savagery.
I think we should all work to getting Allah’s children to him ASAP so they can bounce on his knee and collect their 2.3 virgins, or what ever is left.