David H and Valerie,
What would you say if I could give you a compendium of surah and verse from the Qur’an, from the Medinan period of Muhammad’s career, where Allah calls for violence against the unbelievers and to wage jihad against them until all of the world is under Sharia Law? I say Medinan period, because the doctrine of abrogation says that the later revelations abrogate (cancel out) the earlier Meccan ones. Do you even know about the centrality and orthodoxy of the abrogation principle in the way the Islamic scriptures are used by Muslim scholars?
The jihadis correctly quote the Qur’an and ahadith. The wishful thinking on the part of the political and policy elites of the West (and I assume you are a policy person working somewhere in the government, because I have it on good information that the line you bring here on this topic is the one that is being actively promoted from those warrens)does not make these inconvenient truths go away. The violence is inspired by the actions of Muhammad and the words of his sock puppet deity.
Let me reiterate, you vehement denial notwithstanding, that you provide no evidence of having read the Islamic scriptures in their entirety and with great understanding. I am but a modest and humble citizen who has tried to understand these events across fourteen centuries. If you debated Robert Spencer, who is fluent in Arabic, and a colleague of his, Andrew Bostom, on these topics you would get your clock cleaned.
Regardless of whether or not the truth offends your erstwhile “allies” within the Muslim community, the fact is that the ones not on the side of the jihadis are not on correct Islamic grounds. The jihadis are the good Muslims faithful to their tradition and the example of the Prophet. Our friends are the apostate, bad Muslims. You can keep repeating the taqiyya you put here ad infinitum, but it does not make it right. The only thing that will really protect us in the long run is not the bad Muslims who are on our side, but our apprehension of the theological and historical truth about what Islam really is: our submission.
Look, if your version of things works for you, fine. Go with it. If your career depends on it, or at least even your pretending to believe it helps you to stay in good stead with your bosses, fine – go with it. But we who are not subject to the official policy of the elites are entitled to seek and find the truth as it is. We are tired of having government, media, and academia tell us how we should think. We think we have been deceived by you people and our enemies and we have a right to see the truth and live in its light.
Muhammad was the consummate terrorist. He wiped out the Jews of Qurayza by participating in the beheading of 900 Jewish males one by one in front of a trench they had to dig for their grave. This was hundreds of years before the Einsatzgruppen did this in Russia and Eastern Europe. He drove out and murdered the rest of the Jews of Yathrib (Medina) by the time he was done. He raided the caravans and murdered the men, selling the women and children into slavery and letting his men divide up the spoils. He told his followers to bring the sword to the four directions, as Allah said it was their calling to make all submit. And as traditional, orthodox Islam holds that Muhammad was The Perfect Man, he is to be imitated in all his deeds, words, and views. And if you deny that the Prophet should be regarded as The Perfect Man, see how many Muslims will PUBLICLY deny this.
Your rationalizations don’t work with me. And people like me. We have been liberated by the truth. We won’t deceive others and we sure won’t lie to ourselves.
