Understanding the Jihad Against Israel and America
The late Southern Sudanese leader John Garang, in 1999, posed the following dual-part existential question for our era:
Is the call for jihad against a particular people a religious right of those calling for it, or is it a human rights violation against the people upon whom jihad is declared and waged?
As I hope to make plain, the answer to both parts of John Garang’s query is “Yes!”
Hamas cleric Muhsen Abu ‘Ita was interviewed July 13, 2008, on Al-Aqsa TV. After reminding listeners that the Koran’s opening prayer itself, the Fatiha, which pious Muslims repeat 17 times daily, declares that the Jews are “those who incur Allah’s wrath,” specifically in the 7th verse of the Fatiha, re-affirming the verse’s standard exegesis, or interpretation, for over 13 centuries, he declared:
The annihilation of the Jews here in Palestine is one of the most splendid blessings for Palestine. This will be followed by a greater blessing, Allah be praised, with the establishment of a Caliphate that will rule the land and will be pleasing to men and God.
Three months earlier Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal had made these more elaborate remarks during a speech which aired on Palestinian Al-Aqsa TV April 11, 2008:
Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was, as was prophesized by our prophet Muhammad. Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs [i.e., Jews, Koran 2:65, 5:60, and 7:166, and other foundational Muslim texts] in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam — this capital of theirs [Rome] will be an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern Europe. I believe that our children or our grandchildren will inherit our Jihad …
These words debunk widely accepted tropes that Hamas is merely a nationalist movement, albeit religious, desiring a “Palestinian homeland” in the territories of Gaza (which it already possesses), Judea, and Samaria. Hamas’ blatantly annihilationist rhetoric towards Jews and Israel within the 1949 armistice borders indicates that the jihadist organization wishes to replace Israel. Why then, in addition to the monotonous rhetoric of Jew-hatred (which is Islamic, and specifically Koranic, in origin), the unabashed expression of Hamas’ will to wage global jihad?
Not surprisingly, Hamas’ founding covenant issued in 1988 is redolent with similar Islamic Jew-hatred and jihadism, but also expressly integrates this jihad terror organization into the largest Sunni Muslim jihadist movement — the Muslim Brotherhood. As I will demonstrate, it is this nexus — Hamas’ connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, mainstream Islam’s most important movement, which has deep roots and extraordinary popularity amongst the global Muslim masses — that explains the closely related phenomena of Islamic Jew-hatred, and the jihad against Israel, the U.S., and indeed all outposts of Western civilization.
Koran 3:112 is featured before the pre-amble to Hamas’ foundational Covenant — it is literally part of the very first statement of the document. [Here is the standard Hillali-Khan translation of 3:112: “Indignity is put over them wherever they may be, except when under a covenant (of protection) from Allah, and from men; they have drawn on themselves the Wrath of Allah, and destruction is put over them. This is because they disbelieved in the revelations (Ayat proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah and killed the Prophets without right. This is because they disobeyed (Allah) and used to transgress beyond bounds (in Allah's disobedience, crimes and sins).”]
In classical and modern Koranic exegeses by seminal, authoritative Islamic theologians this central motif is coupled to Koranic verses 5:60, and 5:78, which describe the Jews transformation into apes and pigs (5:60), or simply apes, (i.e. verses 2:65 and 7:166), having been “ … cursed by the tongue of David, and Jesus, Mary’s son” (5:78). Muhammad himself — Islam’s founding prophet — repeats this Koranic curse in a canonical hadith (the words, deeds, and even unspoken gestures of Muhammad as ostensibly recorded by his earliest pious Muslim companions; Sunan Abu Dawoud, Book 37, Number 4322), “He [Muhammad] then recited the verse [5:78]: ‘ … curses were pronounced on those among the children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary’”. And the related verse, 5:64, accuses the Jews — as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas did in a January 2007 speech, citing Koran 5:64 — of being “spreaders of war and corruption,” a sort of ancient Koranic antecedent of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The Koranic curse (verses 2:61/3:112) upon the Jews for (primarily) rejecting, even slaying Allah’s prophets, including Isa, the Muslim Jesus (or at least his “body double” 4:157-4:158), is updated with perfect thematic logic in the canonical hadith: following the Muslims’ initial conquest of the Jewish farming oasis of Khaybar, one of the vanquished Jewesses reportedly served Muhammad poisoned mutton (or goat), which resulted, ultimately, in his protracted, agonizing death. And Ibn Saad’s sira account — the sira being the earliest pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad — maintains that Muhammad’s poisoning resulted from a well-coordinated Jewish conspiracy. Thus Hamas cleric Wael Al-Zarad explained on Al-Aqsa TV on February 28, 2008 that the Muslims’ blood vengeance against the Jews, “will only subside with their [the Jews] annihilation, Allah willing, because they tried to kill our Prophet (i.e., Muhammad) several times.” And they ultimately succeeded. Again, these allegations are part of a central antisemitic motif in the Koran — simply repeated in the Hamas Covenant, and ad nauseum by Hamas clerics — which decrees an eternal curse upon the Jews for slaying the prophets and transgressing against the will of Allah (Koran 2:61/ reiterated at 2:89-91, and 3:112).
The annihilationist sentiments regarding Jews, as expressed by Hamas cleric al-Zarad, are further rooted in Islamic eschatology [end of times theology], and also incorporated permanently into the foundational 1988 Hamas Covenant. As characterized in the hadith, Muslim eschatology highlights the Jews’ supreme hostility to Islam. Jews are described as adherents of the Dajjâl — the Muslim equivalent of the Anti-Christ — or according to another tradition, the Dajjâl is himself Jewish. At his appearance, other traditions maintain that the Dajjâl will be accompanied by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan, or Jerusalem, wrapped in their robes, and armed with polished sabers, their heads covered with a sort of veil. When the Dajjâl is defeated, his Jewish companions will be slaughtered — everything will deliver them up except for the so-called gharkad tree, as per the canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Number 6985) included in the 1988 Hamas Covenant (in article 7). This hadith is cited in the Covenant as a sacralized, obligatory call for a Muslim genocide of the Jews:
…the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to realize the promise of Allah, no matter how long it takes. The Prophet, Allah’s prayer and peace be upon him, says: “The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,’ except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Number 6985)
As an ethnic jew and a christian convert I find myslf doubledamned by Islam.
Hamas is part of the PLO and, over the years, the declarations and actions of the PLO have been vicious attacks, intended to demean, rob and kill both jews and their christian allies.As one who is both, I feel particularly threatened, and wonder why those making terrorist threats and taking terrorist actions are not punished and forced to cease and desist.
Those who endorse the Koran automatically endorse its commandments. And those are to kill jews and christians. Exhorting, inciting to murder is criminal. The first amendment protections do not extend to conspiracy to commit homicide.
Our “supremes” need to define Islam as an international criminal conspiracy and our congressmen need to outlaw it.
White Tiger, as I often say, in the last days Jews and Christians will, finally, stand together side by side in their suffering. Sadly this isn’t the case yet. I wonder how long it takes for the church (and I’m not talking about those that accept replacement theology) to realize that it is not enough to say we pray for sha alu shalom Yerushalayim but that we also corporately have to stand up and be the voice in the wilderness that speaks out for the sake of our Jewish brethren.
Shalom brother.
What is to understand? Islam hates everyone not Islam. We, the infedels, only need to know that we cannot associate with them.
Ago,
Yes, but such Obviosity (is that a new word?) is always ignored because it requires acknowedging clear and incontrovertable truths, something Media Liberals and lawyerly government officials simply cannot allow.
Everything muslims say with their own mouths, books, prayers and pronouncements proves who and what they are. Over and over, in every scrap of prayer and shred of identity to their faith, their hatred and violence is both praised and threatened. Their violent intentions, as THEY state them, are 100% consistant and unchanging. They are evil, blood thirsty villians bent upon nothing less than the destruction and genocide of entire peoples.
They cannot be swayed or calmed with earnest calls for peaceful coexistance, anymore than Sharon Tate could secure HER safety from the knives of her determined killers…Unarmed, offering no resistance, screaming “why?” and offering riches, she begged for her life and that of her unborn child, while their response was “bitch, I have no mercy for you”
Thus is Islam, as Islam itself says it is.
Laughing at OUR foolish pleas for negotiation, mutual respect, understanding, and peace.
All while sharpening the knives they will use to slit our throats.
We do not invent these tales of their planned cruelty.
We merely REPEAT to the willfully ignorant and disengenuous Left what THEY are saying to their own people, consistantly and without pause, over and over again.
There are but Two Messages from spoken by Islam:
1) We are cruel, uncompromising, and mean you nothing but grievous harm.
2) When you dare to quote us, will call YOU the liar.
Period.
Well said.
islam is as islam does.
I’ve been trying to tell everyone this for YEARS.
MUSLIMS ARE OUR ENEMIES.
They will continue to be so, as long as there are Muslims.
Meanwhile, we have a Muslim Brotherhood mole in the office AND the bedroom of our Secretary of State, and nobody seems to be concerned!
Well, there you have it. Islam, like communism, is inherently evil. It’s the jihad stupid. Islam crossed with multiculturlism is a perfect storm. A death wish for the west.
Thank-you for all the effort you have put into researching and elucidating the interconnections of jihadism, the Koran, and the political ideology embedded within Islam. How can your analysis and all the other ones presented over the last years be heard widely enough to cause the scales to fall from the eyes of those in our increasingly vulnerable West?
It seems often, as if there is a weakness, almost an urge to surrender. When the enemy is already here and is so protected by our policies of correctness, what will it take to come workable solutions?
A powerful, explicit, informative article on the identity and nature of the enemy that America and the West refuse to recognize as such. This should be must reading followed by a battery of relevant questions for every politician and military war commander in the West and, most especially, in America. What was for me of special interest was the fact that this threat has been recognized as such going far back in American history. Why has this history been ignored or forgotten? How tragic it will be if an ignorant, backward, violent group of religious fanatics defeat a demonstrably, technologically and militarily superior “enemy” because of the latter’s determination to defer and obscure all in their equally fanatical effort to maintain a politically correct posture of religious appeasement.
This article sums up what is the underpinning of islam that uses to create hate and war with non muslims. From what I have observed as an exmuslim it follows these following stages:
First, its “we are better and morally right people”. (entire 1.2 billion muslims believe that)
Second, “they are inferior and morally corrupt people” *(entire 1.2 billion muslims believe that)
Third. Then they act like victims “we are oppressed/victims” (ie the so called ‘palestinian issue’)
Fourth, “They (jews and americans) are islam’s/ Allah’s enemies”. (radical muslims in the west often repeat that to rouse hate and jihad against the West.)
Fifth, they create tension by using propaganda. (ie jews and america are evil and want to take over the world to dominate muslims)
Sixth, They deny their own atrocities against non-muslims using Taqiya (i e “islam is religion of peace”) The intent of taqiya is meant to keep the infidel off guard until islam can get a strong hold in the territory. ie by building more mosques. Once it gains ground in the infidel land then full war is declared, meaning you either submit, pay jizya or die.
Islam is a relgion of war, nothing else. It is also so deeply deceptive, that it is even keeping the muslims themselves in the dark. All the so called rituals they follow to ‘worship allah’ is in fact meant to keep them in deception. It has no merit for any spirituality. Most what they follow is in fact taken on from pagan rituals that mohammed incorporated (ie lied to early muslims about Abraham to make hajj authentic) into islam ie fasting, the hajj . In the end islam divides mankind into two camps, al-islam and dar-ul-harb which means house of god and house of war respectively. The article above illustrates perfectly how islam sets up hate and war against the infidels to conquer them. So the conclusion is that even muslims dont even know that they are part of a such a grand evil and they will fight and die to help it survive. So the real enemy is not the muslims its mohammed, and where is mohammed? he is in allah, the quran, the sunna, the hadith and the sira, which is all what muslims regard as Islam.
One of the most interesting paragraphs on Wikipedia
is about the meeting Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and a jihadi Amabassador.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
I appreciate Rep.King’s domestic investigation of jihdist-sharia 5th columnist Quisling Muslims. Now I wish Congress would act legislatively against mosques, imans who are threatening the USA. I want profiling of Muslims coming in and out of the USA. No PC baloney. Just do it. I want any taxpayer funds to CAIR or any Muslim outfit-agency, stopped post haste. Rep. King should make sure this too is investigated. And when Dem pols,and it always Dem pols, seek to defend these suspicious Muslim PACS et al, I want the public to know who they are. Yes, I know this sounds like tarring but one only has to go to Londonstan , much of Europe to see the effect of jihadist-sharia-madrassas Muslims blackmailing the citizens and govts. there. That must not be allowed to occur in the USA.
You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah ; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, “We are Christians.” That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant.(Quran 5:82)
Bostom and like have finally created the Norway massacre. A lesson for others.
Bostom and like have finally created the Norway massacre. Wake up America!!!!!
There is a lively debate taking place in the UK media between left and right wing commentators as to the causes of the English riots, in which hundreds of shops and businesses have been looted. However, both sides agree that the looting has been inexcusable. I hope both sides will also agree with me that Muslims have played an important role in helping to tackle the looting and preserve public safety. This would be an especially important acknowledgment if it came from those Islamophobic commentators who consistently denigrate Muslims.
“When accused of terrorism we are Muslims, when killed by looters, we become Asian”, a Muslim student explained to me. He was commenting on the media reportingof the death of three young Muslims in Birmingham on Tuesday night. Like many other Muslims, they were bravely defending shops and communities as rioters went on a violent rampage of looting.
In recent days Muslim Londoners, Muslims from Birmingham, and Muslims in towns and cities around England have been at the forefront of protecting small businesses and vulnerable communities from looting. Having worked closely with Muslim Londoners, first as a police officer and more recently as a researcher, for the last ten years this commendable bravery comes as no surprise to me. But their example of outstanding civic duty in support of neighbours is worth highlighting – especially when sections of the UK media are so quick to print negative headlines about Muslims on the flimsiest of pretexts.