Part XI. Islamic Imperialism

T. Belman. This is Part XI of the series, ISLAM, Our Deadliest Enemy: Time is Running Out. I have been posting one Part every day for the last week and will continue for the next week til done. These articles written by VIPs and renowned scholars devastate Islam more comprehensively than anything in print. It is intended that this series come to the attention of Trump’s committee to Study Islamic Terrorism, when formed.

ISLAM, Our Deadliest Enemy: Time is Running Out

By  Prof. Paul Eidelberg, President, Israel-America Renaissance Institute, Jerusalem and Philadelphia

CONTENTS
Part I. Introduction
Part II. Identifying the Enemy
Part III. A Former Muslim Shows How to Combat the Enemy
Part IV. An Insider’s View of ‘Moderate’ Muslims
Part V. Beyond Multicultural Relativism
Part VI. The Theological Basis of Today’s Crisis
Part VII. Islamophobia: Facts and Fictions
Part VIII. Islamic Bellicosity and Blood Lust
Part IX. Blood Lust (cont’d)
Part X. Iran and Necrophelia
Part XI. Islamic Imperialism
Part XII. Islam: A Cult of Hatred, Especially of Jews

Part XI. Islamic Imperialism

Attempts to equate Islam’s history of bloodshed with that of Jews has been refuted by Raymond Ibrahim, “Conflating History with Theology: Judeo-Christian Violence vs. Islamic Violence.”[i] Besides, the Torah forbids Israel from waging war against any nation that keeps the Noahide Laws.  Contrary to Islamic theology, neither in the Torah nor in the Talmud is it commanded or deemed praiseworthy to kill non-Jews. In fact, Jewish law rebukes those who exulted in the death of the Egyptians drowned in the Red Sea, for even the wicked are creatures of God, and they are not beyond salvation. Rebbe Nachman teaches that someone who serves God with all his being can succeed in purifying his blood, can break down within himself the attribute of strife and the desire to rule over others, and thus bring about peace. This has surely been true of various individual Muslims.

But let us be realistic. We are confronted by, and dare not ignore, a virtually permanent and strategic fact that Islam, from its inception in the seventh century, has glorified bloodshed. In the name of Allah it has ravaged and plundered countless Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Jewish and other communities throughout the Near East, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Indeed, according to the Center for the Study of Political Islam, and as reported in FrontPageMagazine, February 21, 2007, Muslims have slaughtered approximately 270 million people since the ascendancy of Muhammad! These Muslims boast of their military conquests and bloodshed as proof of Arab-Islamic superiority, of the truth of Islam, and of Allah Akhbar. A logical observer would conclude that only the elimination of Islamic arrogance—beginning with the destruction of their holiest places, Mecca and Medina, could remove this scourge of mankind. But what statesman dares think in these terms? Let us therefore probe deeper.

If we try to understand Arab culture in Hebraic terms we would have to go back long before Ibn Khaldun. Indeed, we would have to begin with what Genesis 16:12 says of Ishmael, the archetype of Arab man: “His hand shall be against everyone, and everyone’s hand shall be against him.” Midrash Rabbah (Genesis 45:9) refers to Ishmael as “a savage among men [as Khaldun later said]” But the Midrash speaks of “savage” in “its literal sense,” meaning that “whereas all others plunder wealth, he plunders lives.” Other commentators refer to Ishmael as a prolific man who will have abundant progeny spread throughout the world. That great convert to Judaism Onkelos (c.35-120 CE) says of Ishmael: “He will be dependent on every one and similarly everyone will be dependent upon him” (a prophecy that has come to fulfillment in our times: witness Arab dependence on Western technology and the West’s dependence on Arab oil).

Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra (1092-1167) also construes the reference to Ishmael in Genesis 16:12 as a prophecy: “His hand shall be against everyone,” means that Ishmael will be victorious at first over all nations, and afterwards, everyone’s hand shall be against him, meaning that he will be vanquished in the end.

Now let us consider what Professor Efraim Karsh records at the very outset of his book Islamic Imperialism: A History (2005):

• “I was ordered to fight all men until they say ‘There is no god but Allah.’”

—Prophet Muhammad farewell address, March 632

• “I shall cross this sea to their islands to pursue them until there remain no one on the face of the earth who does not acknowledge Allah.”

— Saladin, January 1189

• “We shall export our revolution throughout the world … until the calls ‘there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah’ are echoed all over the world.”

—Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 1979

• “I was ordered to fight people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Muhammad.”

—Osama bin Laden, November 2001

Notice that “Allah” and “Muhammad” constitute the operative terms in this bellicose litany of Islam. Unlike the God of the Bible, Allah is absolutely transcendent: he is pure will without personality. Allah’s absolute transcendence precludes the possibility of human free will or choice. Islam postulates absolute predestination of all that we think, say and do. The totality of all events is irrevocably fixed, preordained, and recorded from eternity. Muslims are programmed, and to be an authentic Muslim one must accept Allah’s program, which requires unending war against infidels. Theologically speaking, there is no such creature as a “Muslim moderate.” This means perpetual war.

Most remarkable is that this conclusion was well understood by no less than John Quincy Adams, one of America’s most learned Secretaries of State! Adams, a Harvard graduate, possessed a remarkably clear, uncompromised understanding of the permanent Islamic institutions of jihad war and dhimmitude. Regarding jihad, Adams states in a series of essays: “…he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind…The precept of the Quran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.”[ii]

Hardly less may be inferred from the research of John Perazzo. Here are some passages from his article in FrontPageMagazine, September 18, 2002:

• If you attended religious services this past weekend, recall, for a moment, the preacher’s sermon. Did any portion of his or her message bear some resemblance to this:

“Have no mercy on the Jews. No matter where they are, fight them…. Wherever you are, kill the Jews, the Americans . . . . and those who stand by them. . . It is forbidden to befriend Israelis or to aid them. Don’t love them or enter into agreement with them… They should be slaughtered. They should be murdered.”

• There’s little likelihood of any listener dozing off during such a sermon, which was in fact delivered during worship services at a Gaza mosque on October 13, 2000 by Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, a member of the Palestinian Authority’s “Fatwa Council,” and former acting Rector of Gaza’s Islamic University. Sadly, its content is no aberration, but is representative of the vicious anti-Semitic bigotry regularly thundered from Muslim pulpits all over the Middle East.

• At another Gaza mosque on August 3, 2001, Sheik Ibrahim Madhi delivered this message, which was broadcast by Palestinian Authority television:

“The Quran is very clear on this: The greatest enemies of the Islamic nation are the Jews. . . . All spears should be directed at the Jews. . . . Allah has described them as apes and pigs. . . . Whoever can fight them with his weapons should go out [to the battle]. . . . The Jews have exposed their fangs. Nothing will deter them, except the color of their filthy people’s blood; nothing will deter them except for us voluntarily detonating ourselves in their midst. . . . Blessings for whoever has saved a bullet in order to stick it in a Jew’s head.”

• The Middle East Media Research Institute reports that two months earlier, this same sheikh told worshippers: “Blessings to whoever put a belt of explosives on his body or on his sons’ and plunged into the midst of the Jews, crying ‘Allahu Akbar, praise to Allah.'”

• On April 19, 2002, the Chief Cleric at Mecca’s Grand Mosque called Jews “the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the killers of the prophets, and the grandsons of monkeys and pigs.” An Egyptian newspaper recently quoted a preacher from Islam’s` most renowned Al-Azhar University in Cairo, which baldly states, “I hate the Jews, so as to earn a reward from God.”

Perazzo goes on to say: “Examples of such rhetoric emanating from the mouths of clerics are legion in Islamic countries.” Even the otherwise optimistic student of Islam, Daniel Pipes, admits (in FrontPageMagazine.com, September 18, 2002) that this obscene rhetoric “is something that’s part of the heart of the [Islamic] culture, unfortunately. This is a reflection of the depths of anti-Semitism now found in the Muslim world…. In many ways, the Muslim world today is comparable to Nazi Germany in the extent to which one finds anti-Semitic themes . . . pervasively throughout the culture…. Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that it’s something marginal and fringe. It is absolutely central.”[iii]

[i] See http://www.meforum.org/2105/judeo-christian-violence-vs-islamic-violence, March 15, 2009.

[ii] See Andrew G. Bostom, FrontPageMagazine.com., September 29, 2004.

[iii] See Daniel Pipes, “Islam vs. History, National Review Online: The Corner, July 2, 2012.