The Specter of Muslim Disloyalty in America
Islamist enmity for infidels, regularly manifested in the jihad, is by now moderately well known. Lesser known, however, but of equal concern, is the mandate for Muslims to be loyal to fellow Muslims and Islam — a loyalty that all too often translates into disloyalty to all things non-Muslim, including the American people and their government.
This dichotomy of loyalty to Muslims and enmity for infidels — which, incidentally, corresponds well with Islamic law’s division of the world into the abode of war (deserving of enmity) and the abode of Islam (deserving of loyalty) — is founded on a Muslim doctrine called wala’ wa bara’ (best translated as “loyalty and enmity”). I first encountered this doctrine while translating various Arabic documents for The Al Qaeda Reader. In fact, the longest and arguably most revealing document I included in that volume is titled “Loyalty and Enmity” (pgs.63-115), compiled by Aymen Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s number two.
I say “compiled” because most of the words are direct quotes from the Koran, the Muslim prophet Muhammad, and Islam’s jurists (i.e., this doctrine is not an “al-Qaeda” phenomenon but rather permeates Islam’s worldview). Those interested are urged to read the whole treatise. For our purposes, however, a few key scriptures must suffice: Koran 5:51 warns Muslims against “taking the Jews and Christians as friends and allies … whoever among you takes them for friends and allies, he is surely one of them,” i.e., he becomes an infidel. According to authoritative Muslim exegete, al-Tabari, Koran 5:51 means that the Muslim who “allies with them [non-Muslims] and enables them against the believers, that same one is a member of their faith and community.” Similar scriptures include Koran 3:28, 4:89, 4:144, 5:54, 6:40, 9:23, and 58:22; the latter simply states that true Muslims do not befriend non-Muslims — “even if they be their fathers, sons, brothers, or kin.”
Conversely, according to Muhammad, “A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He neither oppresses him nor humiliates him nor looks down upon him. … All things of a Muslim are inviolable for his brother in faith: his blood, his wealth, and his honor” — precisely those three things Islamic law singles out as not being vouchsafed to free infidels. The problem here is that these scriptures are not mere words; American Muslims act on them. Consider the ongoing case of Nasser Abdo, an infantryman assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, who refuses to deploy to Afghanistan: “I don’t believe I can involve myself in an army that wages war against Muslims. I don’t believe I could sleep at night if I take part, in any way, in the killing of a Muslim. … I can’t deploy with my unit to Afghanistan and participate in the war — I can’t both deploy and be a Muslim.” And why is that? “Abdo cited Islamic scholars and verses from the Quran [no doubt such as the above] as reasons for his decision to ask for separation from the Army.” Indeed, his loyalty to Afghanistan’s Muslims is such that, if he does not get discharged, “he will, apparently, be facing a prison sentence.”
Rather than going quietly to prison, Major Nidal Hasan went on the infamous Fort Hood killing spree, slaying thirteen Americans. Maintaining that “Muslims shouldn’t kill Muslims,” he was, like Abdo, adamant about not being deployed to a Muslim nation, his “worst nightmare.” He was also “very upfront about being a Muslim first and an American second,” thereby showing where his true loyalty lay. Tabari’s words come to mind: the Muslim who “allies with them [e.g., Americans] and enables them against the believers, that same one is a member of their faith and community,” i.e., he too becomes an infidel, the worst thing in Islam.
And of course there was sergeant Hasan Akbar, who was convicted of murder for killing two American soldiers and wounding fourteen in a grenade attack in Kuwait: “He launched the attack because he was concerned U.S. troops would kill fellow Muslims in Iraq.” Previous to the attack, he confessed to his diary: “I may not have killed any Muslims, but being in the army is the same thing. I may have to make a choice very soon on who to kill.”
Americans are paying the price for electing their Hussein. There will be more to pay.
No one who follows the religion of Mohammed faithfully can be a loyal citizen of the United States. As he must follow the sharia no matter what the civil law of the US directs, and must use every opportunity to bring all US citizens under the rule of sharia, which directly contravenes the provisions of the US COnstitution, Mohammedans are inherently disloyal to the US Constitution, just as Communists are. Communist Party membership used to be illegal in the US. Perfectly reasonable, since the Communist Party advocated, and worked towards, overthrowing the US government. When being the conscious agent of a foreign power (the USSR) and working for the subversion of the US government transmogrified from being sedition into free speech, I don’t recall. But the judges involved should have been tarred and feathered, if not strung up. Hint: they would’ve been in 1787.
We, the American people, must be completely mad, for allowing our Muslim enemies to set foot on American soil even to visit, let alone to settle here and become citizens.
I read something very smart the other day, sorry I don’t remember on which blog, which I think comes down to the essential – Was Islam’s prophet Mohammed a moderate?
Anyone with even the vaguest knowledge of the career of Mohammed knows very well the answer to that question. Everything you need to understand Islam is contained in that question & the obvious answer.
To paraphrase John Fulghum:
“Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9/11.”
We let Saudi Arabia get away with exporting terrorists to the US to carry out the 9-11 attack, simply because they had PRETENDED to be our allies (which they still claim to be), because the Bush family is connected with the Saudi oil business, and because the petrodollar lobby is extremely powerful in the US.
Obama will never stand up to the Muslim world because he is a Muslim himself and supports the Muslim agenda wholeheartedly. He is as much a traitor as the Muslims described in this article.
That is the very reason, when we judge any particular religion, we must make that judgement based on it’s orthodoxy. In other words, take literally what the writings of that religion say. We can’t take at face value what their apologists may say. We should read it for ourselves. The Koran is not that tough of a read….
Dear ‘Terry, Eilat’,
As Goebbels infamously proclaimed “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
The great lie that Muhammed was some kind of holy man, a moral role model with a direct connection to God is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated upon humanity. It is a massive lie that is propagated by Islam’s power to repress inquiry, dissent and the truth by fear, intimidation and violence.
But the truth about Muhammed cannot be suppressed, because the truth can be found in the Islamic ‘holy’ texts, the Koran, Ahadith and Surah Rasul Allah, recorded in black and white for the whole world to discover.
The Koran 68:4 upholds Muhammed as “…an exalted [standard of] character.” Islamic tradition upholds Muhammed as ‘al-insan al-kamil’ or ‘the perfect man’, to be emulated by all Muslims.
But the hard truth about Muhammed, as recorded in the Islamic ‘holy’ texts, is that far from being a a ‘holy prophet’ Muhammed was a sadistic sociopath, a 7th century Arabian Hitler – only worse, a successful Charles Manson, only creepier and more evil.
Muhammed was a murderer, torturer, amputator, decapitator, mutilator, slaver, looting stealing thief, rapist, human trafficker, sex trafficker, child rapist, sexual deviant, misogynist, perfidious liar, genocidist and self proclaimed terrorist.
By any objective standard, Muhammed was one of the most vile and disgusting men in the pantheon of human history, a brutal barbarian, a self important narcissistic consumed by unquenchable sexual lust, greed and power.
Muhammed should have been incarcerated not venerated, and he should be reviled not revered.
Every pathology that afflicts Islam comes directly from this sick man, Muhammed, and the world suffers because of him.
Yet this is the man who inspires Muslims?? This is the man who inspired Major Nidal Hassan MD?? Is there any reason to be shocked at his slaughter?? It should be expected.
Allah’s Apostle Muhammed said “I have been made victorious with terror”- Bukhari (52:220) I’m sure Major Nidal Hassan MD said the same thing.
Of consequence, Osama bin Laden’s full name is Osama bin MOHAMMED bin Awad bin Laden.
Here are some more men “INSPIRED BY MUHAMMED”:
1) MOHAMMED Atta, 9/11 airline jihadist
2) Abdulhakim Mujahid MUHAMMED, Little Rock recruiting center assasin
3) MOHAMMED Reza Taheri-azar, UNC SUV jihadist
4) MOHAMMED Ajmal Amir Kasab, Mumbai jihadist
5) Husayn MUHAMMED al-Umari, Pan Am Flight 830 bomber
6) Fahd MOHAMMED Ahmed al-Quso, USS Cole bomber
7) Khalid Sheikh MOHAMMED, beheader of Daniel Pearl
8 ) MOHAMMED Sidique Khan, London Tube suicide jihadist
9) Ramzi MOHAMMED, convicted London Tube jihadist
10) Whabi MOHAMMED, London Tube ‘5th’ bomber
11) Fazul Abdullah MOHAMMED, Tanzanian embassy bomber
12) MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad, despotic Shia leader of Islamic Republic of Iran
13) MOHAMMED Bouyeri, savage Islamist killer of Theo Van Gogh
14) MOHAMMED Ali Hamadei, airline hijacker
15) MOHAMMED Safady, Munich Olympics terrorist
16) AHMAD Marrouf al-Assadi, Achille Lauro hijacker
17) MEHMET Ali Ağca, Islamist who attempted to assasinate Pope John Paul
18) MOHAMMED Atif Siddique, Scottish terrorist conspiritor
19) Kafeel AHMED, Glasgow Airport bomber
20) Abdulla AHMED, ‘Liquid’ bomber
21) John Allen MUHAMMED, mass murdering sniper
23) MOHAMMED Haydar Zammar, al-Qaeda recruiter who assembled the Hamburg cell
24) Jaish-e-MOHAMMED, Pakistani jihadist terror organization
You see, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, Major Nidal Hassan MD are all part of the problem, but the real problem is ISLAM itself.
Any ‘religion’ that requires fealty to a sadistic socipath is bound to create an army of sadistic sociopaths.
Mohammed…..Muhammed….Mahmoud….Mehmet….Ahmed…..and on and on and on….
Slaughtering in the name of Allah and his barbarian prince Muhammed.
~ The Infidel Alliance
There is an individual in Christian mythology (and to a lesser extent, Jewish) who embodies and typifies the sort of behavior Mohammed encouraged. That individual is also present in Islamic mythology. I bet you can guess the name of that individual. What a coup for him, that he has a whole religion furthering his agenda, in God’s name?
Satan is rejoicing at every Muslim conversion, and has been for 1400 years.
You had me until the last two paragraphs. I’m not terribly interested in conspiracy theories, thanks.
Well said.
But what about you, Mr Ibrahim? Are you just pretending to be an infidel? Well, you would deny it, wouldn’t you?
Sadly, when PJM contributors get on the “Obama is a muslim” bandwagon, it’s time to move on.
Lefroy
You may want to be just a little more patient and wait for the manchurian president’s full implosion to occur. It shouldn’t too much longer. He is already angry that he is being questioned and doubted. Soon he lash out and then it will all start unraveling. Is he a muslim? No way to know until we know. That is is danger of allowing islam to be amongst us.
Duh, it’s not that crazy of a claim – his father was born muslim was, making barry muslim by default (though his father denounced religion to instead worship liquor). He was also raised and schooled AS A MUSLIM – fact, not speculation. Also, as potus (maybe yours, not mine) he bowed to the king of saudi arabia didn’t he? IT is FORBIDDEN to be anything but muslim in saudi arabia – I would say that is enough for me to become suspicious.
The only thing keeping anyone from 100% believing that he is a muslim is his attendance at that weird jeramiah wright hate-cult, and his “word” lol!
I don’t think Mr. Ibrahim is saying that Obama is a Muslim. He’s outlining what would happen if an American president (any American president) were to be a Muslim, secret or otherwise.
What would happen if Obama was a secret Muslim? Exactly what’s happening now!
Whatever Obama is, one thing is evident and that is he is out to destroy the USA in whatever way he can. If he sat in Wright’s congregation for 17 years, don’t you think that Wright’s attitude rubbed off on him. And if Obama says he does not agree with all of Wright’s teaching, he is lying. Otherwise what was he doing in Wright’s congregation? If a person doesn’t agree with a teaching they don’t hang around it for very long. I say Obama is a Muslim and wants to be found doing what Muslims want him to do to America.
So, if the “o” is indeed found out to be a muslim. is he not a traitor to America, and should he not be treated as a traitor? Imprisonment, or even stronger punishment? This is the 800 lb. gorilla in the room that no one wants to talk about. . . Do we have the politicians with the balls to deal with this? I doubt it. . . .
In all probability, any legal attack on Obama based on allegations that he’s an unadmitted Muslim would be invalid under the “no religious test for public office” clause of the Constitution. But in this regard, what Obama believes is irrelevant. A president can only be removed from office for “high crimes (felonies) and misdemeanors,” which are inherently deeds. And that is exactly as it should be.
Nah, it would just make his presidency more “historic”: The first African-American secret Muslim president.
And yet anyone who DARES question the loyalty and ancestry of The One is mocked and derided and thrown out of this country’s courts of law. The stench is overwhelming. And it smells like pig.
Always look forward to Ray Ibrahim’s writing. Clear, to the point and profound in measure. Bookmarked.
Excellent commentary. One of the best I’ve read here.
And it brings us full circle. Why do we allow muslims and mexicans to live here? Muslims have no loyalty to the US; go to any Detroit mosque and see if they are any true Americans: Do they believe in the American dream; the exceptionalism of America. They are as unassimilated as the mexican hordes pouring over our border. You can be from the M.E. and live here but you cannot be a muslim. Islam and our republic and values are incompatible.
And the left actively promotes this balkanization of America. The left uses “religious tolerance” against us. It allows muslims to practice their religion which is antithetical to America’s religious values. We will never be safe as long as muslims live here. There will come a point that America must decide, after the next attack, on whether it should allow muslims to live here or not.
So, if muslim must not attack muslim, why is it that it is muslim governments around the world that have the absolute worst human rights records in abusing their citizens and other muslims? If being pious to the Quran was so all fired important, the islamic world should be the most peaceful part of the world, when it is in fact the exact opposite.
Logic can not be applied – the vast majority of muslims worldwide are illiterate (nothing particular about it, vast majority live in the 3rd world). They know nothing but how to blindly follow their clerics. It’s so much more a system of social control than a religion in my opinion.
Thank you sir for exposing this viper in our bosom. It seems that the first thing we should consider is the immediate discharge of all active Muslims from the United States military Such discharge would be a general discharge, not an honorable, perhaps even an undesirable (rare these days), since we have no absolute way of knowing who is and is not loyal.
Secondarily, based upon the information you’ve provided, we must immediately undertake impeachment proceedings against Obama. He has demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt by his actions that he has at least SOME loyalty to Islam. He refuses to acknowledge that we are at war with Islam. He has declared that we are a Muslim nation, rather than a Christian one.
Finally, we must change all of the sensitive codes which this man is privy to. How do we know that he has not already given them, or the means to defeat them, to our enemies
While understanding that your comments were somewhat sarcastic in nature, the fact is, a follower of islam is a follower of an ideology that is totally counter to western values, and as such should have absolutely no part in being responsible to defend that which they in heart deny. Islam is not a race, is not a religion. It is an ideology that demands absolute subservience. I am currently in a country dominated by islamic servitude. Over the past 5 years I have received a pretty good understanding of what it is about. The vast majority of the western world do not believe the ‘stories’ that they hear because they can’t believe they could possibly be true. Its really sad to see the blindsiding that is taking place because people would rather disbelieve what seems incredulous rather than spend the time to find out and be woke up.
It’s not just Obama. Take a look at this list of Obama Administration personnel who are in charge of who knows what:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/08/13/expected-attendees-white-house-iftar-dinner
ADMINISTRATION MEMBERS
The Honorable Dan Poneman, Deputy Secretary of Energy
The Honorable Ron Sims, Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Ms. Huma Abedin, Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of State
Mr. Mustafa Javed Ali, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mr. Arif Alikhan, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development, Department of Homeland Security
Mr. Mazen Basrawi, Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Department of Justice
Technical Sergeant Sabrina Marie Bullock-Labaran, U.S. Air Force
Sergeant Major Agha Jalil Durrani, U.S. Army
Ms. Rehana Hakeem, Department of State
Chaplain Abdullah Hulwe, U.S. Army
Mr. Rashad Hussain, U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference
Mr. Adnan Kifayat, Department of Treasury
Ms. Sehreen Noor Ali, Department of State
Ms. Farah Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim Communities, Department of State
Ms. Hannah Rosenthal, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Department of State
Mr. Irfan Saeed, Department of Homeland Security
Lt. Commander Abuhena Saifulislam, U.S. Marine Corps
Mr. Osman Shinaishin, National Science Foundation
Mr. Kareem Shora, Department of Homeland Security
Mr. Shaarik Zafar, National Counter Terrorism Center
And we wonder about the actions of the State Department? No longer…
Among the republican’s top ten to-do list has to be a financial and personnel audit of this apparently anti-American department. The rot there seems to be spreading unchecked. Has done for decades.
Why is Rosenthal in this list? Yes, she’s a liberal and spends too much time on “Islamophobia”, which is not her area of responsibility. But Jews are in a very different category than Muslims. Unlike the latter, Jews have since the first exile more than 2,500 years ago followed the principle of “dina de-malkhuta dina” which is Aramaic for “the law of the land is the law”. It’s why Jews can be loyal, contributing citizens of the lands in which they reside, for it grants binding legitimacy to the laws under which they live. In contrast, man-made laws have no inherent legitimacy under Islam, and primary loyalty is the Muslim “umma”.
Most just don’t get this. I suggested to a Jewish acquaintance (liberal, natch) after Major Hassan’s murder spree that believing Muslims simply shouldn’t be in the US military and he looked at me like I was the worst sort of bigot. I explained the legitimacy/loyalty issue to him; he mumbled a “well, maybe” and walked away. The issue is simply beyond the ken of the politically correct.
I also agree with others who have noted the foolishness of relying on Muslim translators where national security is concerned. There are lots of educated Jews, Christians and Bahais from the Middle East who could be doing the job, but try convincing the FBI and CIA. You’ll get nowhere.
Raymond – I read your book, The Al Qaeda reader – it and a few other things convinced me that Islam is only a religious veneer over an authortarian political tract whose aim is world domination. (As I’ve said many times on PJM, Islam is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.) I do not think there are any moderate Muslims; those who are, are not serious about their devotion to Islam. As for Muslims who join the US Military and then refuse to take orders to fight in Islamic countries because of their “religion,” I would say to them: Fine — follow your religious laws, but then we will follow our American law by throwing you into the brig and then by giving you a dishonorable discharge.
By a show of hands, how many of you think we are getting accurate translations of foregin languages from muslims employed by our various intelligence services?
We desperately need more non-muslim translators.
Young people out there take note: want a good career with lots of job security? Look no further.
Many US and Israeli Jews are fine translators of Arabic, but our intelligence services won’t hire them.
The military used to maintain language schools that taught, among other languages, the Arabic dialects of various Middle Eastern countries. My own husband attended language school at Crystal City outside D.C. and later, at Monterey, CA, back in the 70s, where he was taught Iraqi Arabic and Russian (the concern back then was Soviet interference in Middle Eastern countries). I’d be willing to bet there are still language courses (including Arabic and Farsi) being maintained by the military today.
One thing is certain. if Ray Ibrahim is a Muslim in hiding, his words & actions would not be forgiven by his Muslim brothers. He has already gone too far for that! I suspect he is one Muslim who realizes that as practiced by those who believe in the Koran word fr word, its a problem. Even Christians do not follow the Bible word for word in today’s times. Some of the books have outlived the situation. Although the what is in question by many, literal following is not reasonable.
Our biggest problem is those who say assimilation is unacceptable or something for another time. No its not. If one comes to America & cannot break their ties w/ their native land, then they cannot fully assimilate into American culture.
Hyphenated citizens, will always have divided loyalties.
It is my understanding, based on the Wikipedia article about him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Ibrahim) that Raymond Ibrahim is the son of Egyptian Coptic parents and was born in the US. The Copts are a longstanding CHRISTIAN sect that has lived in Egypt for many hundreds of years.
Could he still be a “secret Muslim”? Well, anything’s possible but, considering Mr. Ibrahim’s long history of revealing the details of Islamic philosophy in a way that is far from flattering to Islam, it seems EXTREMELY unlikely to me that he has any love for Islam at all.
I don’t believe Mr. Ibrahim is a Muslim, but I have heard things similar to what he is saying from some Americans of ME Muslim background (people who I would classify as “bad Muslims” because they don’t really follow their religion very seriously — they are a minority, but they do exist). I have always been of the opinion that if they are saying it about their co-religionists, then it’s probably a good idea to listen.
Irregardless of the religious leanings of our president, this poses an very thorny issue: that we have a fair sized number of people within our country who could resort to treasonous acts at any time and without much advance notice (and interspersed within them may be people who are not of such an inclination, but determining that would be very difficult). How do we maintain ourselves as a free, equal, and open society with a threat such as this — while providing for the general welfare? I think the answer may be in the last part of that question, but it is a troubling problem.
“By a show of hands, how many of you think we are getting accurate translations of foregin languages from muslims employed by our various intelligence services?”
Are you kidding? There is no chance we are getting all accurate translations from them. We aren’t even getting accurate reports of news events, let along intelligence activities.
I think you may be making the mistake of assuming that because Ibrahim is Muslim because his last name is Arabic. It is very important to remember that it is possible to be an Arab without being a Muslim. Apparently, something like 20% of all Egyptians are Coptic Christians. They are still Arabs but they are Christian Arabs.
Conspiracy theories? Youre a perfect example of a person who doesnt want peace at all. You are an extremist just like those terrorist except you just sit down on a computer and type type type.. Destroying images of your own faith, your dignity like those terrorist. Those terrorist who thinks that killing innocents would make more peace. You better stop! Hate/TheDevil is trying to overwhelm you. Dont be weak.
Now would be a great time for everyone to get involved and have one of the biggest Pig Roasts in this countries history and here is why:
http://exposingliberallies.blogspot.com/2009/10/general-pershing-on-terrorism.html
But Rauf remained adamant about his belief that there is a need for his community center, including a mosque, to be built in Lower Manhattan. “Is there really a need . . . the answer is a categorical yes.”
There is no need for a gigantic Islamic center in the middle of the commercial and financial center that is lower Manhattan.
None whatsoever.
When this Imam professes love for American values (i.e., when he’s making speeches he doesn’t make when traveling around the Middle East) I can only think he is lying through his teeth and that his thinking is far closer to those of his buddy, Faiz Khan
“I am certain of a few things . . . The towers and WTC 7 could not have collapsed without controlled demolition place from the ‘inside.’”
Enough of these people.
S Rubicon @ #13 – If memory serves correctly, I think Ray Ibrahim is Christian.
We are told a lot these days—by our presumed betters on the Left, and by their agents, their captive Academy and the MSM—that we should “shut up and sit down,” that we should not question or object because they, in all areas, in all things–being smarter, better educated, and more sophisticated than we could possibly be (they are a natural aristocracy and ruling class, and know far better than we what is best for us)–know the “Truth” and, as Al Gore so famously said in trying to sell the stinking, putrefying mountain of lies and deliberate misrepresentations he and his friends piled up about Anthropogenic Global Warming (that—if we bought their “Big Lie”–was to be their ticket to immense, world-wide, control, wealth and power), “the science is settled.”
Thus, we are not to delve into any of the critical issues of the day—into the issues of the Earth’s climate, or into Obama’s birth and background, statements and actions, into the content and effect of massive, revolutionary, unread bills that were passed by Congress—or how they were “passed,” or into just what Islam is and stands for–for if we do–we betray by our interest and questions and skepticism that we are any number of abhorrent and evil things—that we are “polluters,” “fat cats,” “wreckers,” “wingnuts,” or “deniers,” or are “ignorant,” “bitter” hayseeds and rubes from “flyover country” who “cling” to their guns and Bibles, that we are the party and partisans of “No,” and are “racists,” “birthers,” or “Islamophobes.”
In the case of Islam, our ignorance, our political correctness, our fear, our gullibility, and our intellectual laziness–in which we rely on Muslims with an agenda and “an axe to grind,” on “experts,” on popular writers and editorialists, or on government officials to tell us what is written in the Qur’an, and what it stands for and means, rather than reading the Qur’an for ourselves and making our own assessments–and what has been termed our general lack of “civilizational confidence,” will be our undoing.
When Muslim Congressman elect Keith Ellison said that he wanted to swear his oath of office on a Qur’an rather than the traditional Bible, he quieted the resulting firestorm of criticism—and for any “unbeliever” who knew what Muslim’s religiously sanctioned deceptive practices of Takiyya and Kitman were, and how they are applied against all unbelievers–what should have been suspicion, by arranging to borrow Thomas Jefferson’s personal copy of the Qur’an from the Library of Congress to use in his swearing in.
At the time editorialists here in the U.S. were practically swooning at what they said was this uniquely “American” solution to the problem, they wrote about how Jefferson thought well of Islam—a pernicious fiction that should be dispelled by the direct quotes from our Founding Fathers in the article by Laura Rubenfeld here on PM (http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/no-professor-ahmed-the-founders-were-not-so-fond-of-islam/) and by the ten years or so Jefferson worked to call into being a U.S. Navy and Marines to go to North Africa to destroy the Muslim Barbary Pirates, and they opined that all would now be well.
But, despite the best efforts by two generations of our Leftist educational establishment’s teachers and professors to obliterate our history and our civilization’s deep roots in the Torah, the Bible, and Judeo-Christian thought, and of the Left’s decade’s long legal crusade to drive Christianity from the Public Square, many of us still understand why our officials are supposed to swear their oaths of office on the Bible; they do so because the Bible is the foundational document for our Judeo-Christian civilization, the bedrock and foundation on which the United States government was built, and we know that our government is supposed to be an embodiment of those principles, of the Sermon on the Mount, and of the Ten Commandments.
Just what, then, does the Qur’an—even Mr. Jefferson’s copy of the Qur’an—stand for? I suggest we each grab a copy, do a little reading, and find out for ourselves.
Excellent blog Mr. Ibrahim.
Mr. Ibrahim’s blogs are routinely published as meaningful standalone contributions at Victor Hanson’s site. Dr. Hanson would not post any known Muslim apologist without clear contextualization.
Moreover, the Coptic Christians have suffered mightily through history at the hands of the Muslims and are still suffering today in Egypt. No, I doubt that Mr.Ibrahim has much compassion for Islam. He is just warning us much as Brigitte Gabriel, Robert Spencer, Walid Shoeblatt, Ibn Warrag, Bat Y’Oer, and so on. I believe the following to be true: Ms. Gabriel is a Maryonite Catholic from Lebanon. Robert Spencer’s parents, I believe, are Christians from Syria or so, the other bloggers are probably Christian converts. In common it seems that they all abhor the substance of Islam. For those of the Judeo-Christian ethic, Islam is and has always been for 1400 years, the enemy.
Now I am going to be a minority of one and elicit harsh criticism. Three cheers for Pastor Terry Jones for having the stones to do what he did! And by backing down, to exhibit the extent of dhimmitude/cowardice in our culture. Phone books are burned routinely around here. What’s wrong with a Koran conflagration? We are not responsible for what towel heads do half a world away.
Commendation, not criticism, and three more cheers. I have addressed the issue elsewhere in my recent comments, contradicting Messrs Simon & Hanson. The minority is stronger in numbers than you might think.
Islam is here within these United States not to be American. They are here to help divide America. Muslims do their part well.
It is easy to control a nation when is divided.
Crusader — Don’t disagree – If Muslims have the right to build at GZM because they want to, Pastor Jones has the right to burn the Koran on his property if he wants to. From other things I have read, I believe the Saudis routinely burn Christian bibles brought into Saudi Arabia. As the saying in Yiddish goes – er magen, aber mir magen nicht (they can do it we can’t?). As for the Coptic Christians, they have, and continue to suffer mightily at the hands of Egypt’s Muslims, just as you say. Indeed, when the swine flu threatened, the Egyptian government used it as a lame excuse to slaughter many of the swine owned by the Copts (and which I suppose must be a major food source for them). Yet, no one anywhere said anything to help the Copts. Cowardice in the West continues as it did in the 1930s, and we know what that led to.
Mr. Ibrahim:
“according to Muhammad, “A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He neither oppresses him nor humiliates him nor looks down upon him. … All things of a Muslim are inviolable for his brother in faith: his blood, his wealth, and his honor””
Peculiar then, that the Islamists have managed to kill and wound far more fellow Muslims than they have infidels, eh?
What says the Dar al-Ummah about this?
Is the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent fellow Muslims covered under Taqqiya?
” Koran 5:51 warns Muslims against “taking the Jews and Christians as friends and allies … whoever among you takes them for friends and allies, he is surely one of them,” ”
I like Preznit George W. Bush’s version better:
“You’re either with us or you’re with theterrorists”
(It just sounds more down-homey folksy, don;t you think?)
But your post raises a test that I’m sure was used before, when El Cid accomplished the Reconquista for Holy Mother Church.
Require the Muslim who would swear fealty to the nation to prove his loyalty by killing a fellow Muslim.
“…in the words of Abu Darda, a pious companion of Muhammad, “We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.” Nearly fourteen-hundred years later, American Muslim Tarik Shah, after being arrested for terrorist-related charges, boasted: “I could be joking and smiling [with infidels] and then cutting their throats in the next second.””
Yes. quite.
But don’t EVER entertain the idea that that duplicity of character is exclusive only to Muslims…not for one minute.
Germany, of all the major Europe nations,was the most liberal and humane in its treatment of its Jews.
Look how THAT turned out.
Speaking of moslem persecution, an ezample may suffice for the whiole? Observe the past three decades or so of the Middle East in general and the Holy Land in particular. Arab Christian communities which had thrived for cenuries, uprooted by constant intimidation and harassment. The continued persecution they have endured for nearly 35 years has led to their virtual extinction.
One of the founders said ” what makes a man a better Christian makes him a better Citezen “. I don’t think that necessarily holds for Muslims , particularly if they closely follow the koran .
One of the founders said ” what makes a man a better Christian makes him a better Citizen “. I don’t think that necessarily holds for Muslims , particularly if they closely follow the koran .
I was a participant in the ‘No Mosque at ground Zero” protest in NYC. To say that predominately lily white people attend, (because that’s how I feel the media portrays these things) is an understatement. Lily white people believe me, are not the only one’s who are anti-’radical muslim.’ And anti-ground zero mosque!
The question is a haunting one, how do you know who is ‘radical’ and who is ‘peaceful’?.
There were people of every religion, and many countries there including, yes, peaceful muslims who are also against the building of a mosque at ground zero, and are also against radical islam.
I experienced many people from various ‘oppressed’ countries, and countries where Islam has practically taken over the country from which they come. Their ‘feelings’ about ‘Radical’ Islam in some, goes way off the map. There were many ‘heated’ feelings in our midst at this protest.
These people know the score. The Coptic Christians and Christians living in N. Africa and other countries where Radicalized Islam persists, are very much at risk every day. Same for Muslims in general. I am sure they have some horrible stories to tell, unfortunately, I was not able to speak with all I would have liked at length because of everything going on that day.
I ran into a young muslim (he was American, but orig. from Iran) handing out pamphlets. His pamphlet and organization, he said was to fight against radical islam (in Iran). The website on the pamphlet is http://www.ahmadinejadout.com. One of the pictures on his panphlet is horrible, it is a picture of a woman being buried, obiviously to be stoned and the look on her face is “Oh my God – Horrible”. It gives me chills. (And They say America is inhumane). Iran was once a thriving democracy before….
This is the Image of Islam that remains in many peoples minds (who care to really look). Islam, Truly Inhumane and unjust is what I see. It is the Radical Islam side that has forever tarnished any peaceful side of the faith, cult or whatever you want to call it.
Radical Islam is something I never want to come to America. I would rather err on the side of caution, then find it at my front door in 10 or 20 years.
Imam Rauf is a liar and people should be suspicious of him and his organization(s). This is serious business now!!
I would like to challenge the use of the term ‘radical islam’. What we see in the stoning, beheadings, jihad to kill Jews, Christians, Hindus etc is not ‘radical’ islam. It is plain jane bread and butter islam. That is what it is. We tend to evaluate islam by the Muslim living next door who seems quite benign, doesn’t necessarily force his wife to wear the hijab etc as the example of islam. In actuality, that Muslim man is borderline apostate. Mohammad is the ‘perfect man’ example of one following islam. Check out his lifestyle and manner of life from his Medina period. Don’t be blindsided by his more sedate Meccan life history. Its worthy of note that the Muslim calendar year 1 begins with Mohammads move from Mecca to Medina, and the beginning of his violence and butchering. It does not start from the previous 10 years he spent in Mecca trying to round up adherants through peaceful pursuasion. Wasn’t until the sword was used as the persuasive tool that Muslims count the beginning of days.
How can you trust or believe anyone who`s religion teaches them it is okay to lie to nonbelievers. Read for yourself what it says in the islamic quran about lying to infidels to spread their religion. We all know who is the father of lies! Look up what taqiyya means.
Also, look up ‘kithman’.
If it can be proven, by Muslim scripture, that Muslims are incapable of serving the U.S. militarily or in an intelligence capacity, then they should
1. be forbidden military or government service of any kind.
2. be stripped of citizenship and given some kind of provisional, conditional residency.
If they come here only to profit, then let them have all the respect that entails.
If they are actively disloyal and we have the two witnesses, then let them be charged with treason in the event of a Fort Hood massacre-like event.
I think it is fortunate that Muslims in the military are not hiding where their sympathies lie. They reveal it early and openly and hence are discharged or dispositioned in some way. The greatest threat of all would be to have a massive percentage of Muslims in the military, well trained and well equipped with the most lethal arms on the planet. Then we might see what happened to Lebanon, mass defections of the Muslims from the Lebanese army, taking their tanks, guns and artillery, and causing the horrible decent into bloody civil war.
Muslims who actively pursue Islam also regularly read the Koran, which has some very evil things to say regarding Christians and Jews.
Most Muslims do not read their Qur’an. Their information about Islam comes from the Imam who cannot possibly cover the entire Qur’an in their lifetime. Also the Imam picks and chooses what he want to teach which must be leaving out a lot of the truth of the Qur’an. And then there are the other ‘holy’ books which also are never read. And I am talking about literate Muslims. I think many Muslims would not be Muslims if they read the Qur’an. As someone said,”if the Muslim read the holy books of Islam, he would either leave Islam or become a terrorist.” I believe that a lot of Muslims would like to leave the Islamic religion but they are frightened to do so fearing for their lives. Many Muslims are tired of all the killing by Muslims but they dare not leave Islam because the Qur’an and other holy books are very clear about what should happen to them if they leave it.
Islam is a religion of fear, killing, lies, deceit, confusion and evil of all sorts. Is it any wonder when you realize that Allah is actually Satan. Who would voluntarily choose Islam if they knew the truth about it? But then I forget that they rarely choose it. They are mostly born into it or forced into it.
Thank you Mr. Ibrahim for your informative article. This is the compulsion that I see in many islamist movements, particularly with Turksih populations. I also see this in academia with the Muslim professorial infiltration of our universities.
I appreciate the way that you have tied this together and illuminated how to define moderates of Islam. So, you are saying in effect that there is NO moderate Islam, only a slow and steady agenda to be fulfilled no matter how long it takes? That agenda, of course, is a world of Islam ruled by sharia. It should be apparent that this is the goal, but I find it interesting the way that you said that the different sects will unite for Islam above existing differences.
The U.S. has done a poor job in explaining the complexity that exists in Islam. It is a network and as such, a huge system. It is faith, law and judiciary, social interacitons, discipline, economics, and moral fortitude all tightly woven together. This makes it often too complex to separate into functions and factions that we can compare to western society. I suppose this, too, is a reason why so many lack understanding of it. It is a prime example of difference; Oreientalism as Edward Said would have said. Would he not have so much more to write?
Thanks for your article.