The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T15:43:59ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLakehttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54802804?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://4freedoms.com/group/theology/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=097vqiv65r6ui&feed=yes&xn_auth=noRobert Spencer on Antifatag:4freedoms.com,2019-07-04:3766518:Topic:2039612019-07-04T15:00:04.485ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>American Anti-Jihad Author Confronts ANTIFA In Stuttgart, Germany<br></br> WRITTEN BY: ROBERT SPENCER</p>
<p>PUBLISHED ON: JULY 3, 2019</p>
<p>Antifa is much in the news these days with their brutal beating of journalist Andy Ngo in Portland. Many Americans assume that Antifa is a new group, but in reality, it is only new, or relatively new, in the United States. Back in 2011, I spoke at an outdoor rally in Stuttgart, Germany, and Antifa was out in force. Hundreds of police were there also, and…</p>
<p>American Anti-Jihad Author Confronts ANTIFA In Stuttgart, Germany<br/> WRITTEN BY: ROBERT SPENCER</p>
<p>PUBLISHED ON: JULY 3, 2019</p>
<p>Antifa is much in the news these days with their brutal beating of journalist Andy Ngo in Portland. Many Americans assume that Antifa is a new group, but in reality, it is only new, or relatively new, in the United States. Back in 2011, I spoke at an outdoor rally in Stuttgart, Germany, and Antifa was out in force. Hundreds of police were there also, and if they had not been, I would not be writing this today: before I spoke, I was standing in front of the massive police phalanx with some members of the German group that had invited me; among them was a young man who I took to be one of their number until I shook his hand and smiled and he responded, “If it weren’t for all these police here, I would have knifed you by now.”</p>
<p>As the other speakers and I spoke, Antifa members threw rocks, bottles, and manure at us, while screaming things such as “Nazis raus.”</p>
<p>This was ironic, as they were behaving much more like Nazis than those they were screaming at.</p>
<p>So, I decided to address them.</p>
<p>In the midst of this barrage, I stood at the front of the stage and addressed the Leftists, while they blew their vuvuzelas and booed to try to drown me out, and kept on throwing things.</p>
<p>This is a transcript of what I said:</p>
<p><em>I came from the United States of America to stand for freedom, with all free people, against the forces of oppression and darkness which you are representing.</em></p>
<p><em>I came here in order to stand with the people who are fighting for the freedoms that make it possible for you to do what you are doing today.</em></p>
<p><em>Not the violence and hatred, but to stand and dissent, but you can’t stand to have any kind of rational discussion, you can’t stand having dissent, you have to try to throw bottles, and drown us out, because you are cowards, because you know that you stand for nothing except for oppression and darkness and hatred, and that is why you are there.</em></p>
<p><em>And that is why I am here.</em></p>
<p><em>You are fronting for the most radically intolerant and hateful ideology on the planet. Everywhere in the world, everywhere in the world, where there are Muslims and non-Muslims, there is conflict because the Muslims attack the non-Muslims. The Qur’an teaches to make war against the unbelievers, and to subjugate them.</em></p>
<p><em>And you are already subjugated! You are already their useful idiots. You are already their tools. You are out here in their service.</em></p>
<p><em>And you think you’re fighting for freedom. You are fighting for your own slavery!</em></p>
<p><em>You are fighting for your own enslavement.</em></p>
<p><em>And it will come. It will come to you.</em></p>
<p><em>You are fighting for an ideology that denies the freedom of speech, and one day you will wish you had the freedom of speech, and one day, you will wish you had the freedom of speech that you are trying to fight against today.</em></p>
<p><em>You are fronting for an ideology that denies the freedom of conscience and will kill you if you disagree, which is exactly what you want to do already.</em></p>
<p><em>You are fighting on behalf of an ideology that denies equality of rights for women, and all the women among you will one day be enslaved, if you get what you want.</em></p>
<p><em>You are fighting for the destruction of all the freedoms that you enjoy.</em></p>
<p><em>You are fighting for the utter defeat of your own selves, and your own life.</em></p>
<p><em>You are slaves seeking slavery. You are the oppressed loving your oppression, and thinking that you are standing for freedom.</em></p>
<p><em>You are the most foolish, you are the most evil, foolish, people on Earth.</em></p>
<p><em>We are standing for the human rights of all people. Of the oppressed Christians in Indonesia, in Pakistan, in Egypt, in the Sudan that you just heard about.</em></p>
<p><em>We are standing for the oppressed people who are targeted by Islamic jihad everywhere around the world. In Israel. Everywhere around the world.</em></p>
<p><em>And so, in closing, I have to say: Shame on you!</em></p>
<p>Article posted with permission from Robert Spencer</p>
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<p>This is the standard definition of Quran 9:29.</p>
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<p>This is the standard definition of Quran 9:29.</p>
<p>"<strong><span xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">YUSUFALI:</span></strong><span> </span><span xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and<span> </span><b>feel themselves subdued</b>."</span></p>
<p><span>Al Qaeda and OBL says:</span></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">‘…it is, in fact, part of our religion to impose our particular beliefs upon others. Whoever doubts this, let him turn to the deeds of the Companions when they raided the lands of the Christians and Omar [the second Caliph] imposed upon them the conditions of dhimmi[tude]…we<span> </span><strong><em>are</em></strong><span> </span>to force people by the power of the sword to [our] particular understandings, customs and conditions, all in order to induce debasement and humility, just like Allah commanded when he said [read<span> </span><strong>Qur'an 9:29</strong><span> </span>above]’ </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">‘Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually? Yes. There are only three choices in Islam: either willing submission; or payment of the Jizya, through physical though not spiritual, submission to the authority of Islam; or the sword – for it is not right to let him [an infidel] live. The matter is summed up for every person alive: either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die.’</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://4freedoms.com/group/tiles/forum/topics/07-enmity-and-hatred-for-ever">http://4freedoms.com/group/tiles/forum/topics/07-enmity-and-hatred-for-ever</a></p>
<p>The above Tamil terrorist seems to be your basic knowledgeable garden-variety Muslim.</p>
<p>And of course the refusal to stand up for the flag is a refusal to worship an idol which would the crime of shirk.</p>
<p><span>In Islam, </span><em>shirk</em><span> (Arabic: شرك širk) is the sin of practicing idolatry or polytheism, i.e., the deification or worship of anyone or anything besides the singular God, i.e., Allah. Literally, it means ascribing or the establishment of "partners" placed beside God.</span></p>
<p>I would like an Imam to refute this orthodoxy, and to refute it with texts. Not just assertions that so and so is not a real Muslim or does not understand Islam.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/TarekFatah">https://twitter.com/TarekFatah</a></p> Islam: A Culture of Rapetag:4freedoms.com,2018-11-28:3766518:Topic:1988522018-11-28T17:08:39.844ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h1 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">By</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><a class="post-author-link" href="https://gellerreport.com/author/amil-imani/" style="font-size: 13px;" title="View Articles Written By Amil Imani">Amil Imani</a><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">-</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">on November 27, 2018…</span></h1>
<h1 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">By</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><a href="https://gellerreport.com/author/amil-imani/" class="post-author-link" title="View Articles Written By Amil Imani" style="font-size: 13px;">Amil Imani</a><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">-</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">on November 27, 2018</span></h1>
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<div class="post-card-wrap">Rape is a cruel violation of a helpless victim. In addition to the physical torment involved, rape reduces the victim to subhuman status. Most civilized countries sternly legislate against and prosecute rape and sexual assaults with prison terms. Under the barbaric rule of the mullahcracy in Iran, however, sexual assaults have become <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/19/18622433.php">instruments of policy</a> for extracting false confessions, satisfying the boundless sadism and sexual perversities of the jailers, and punishing the helpless victims and leaving them with a sense of dehumanization.</div>
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<p>A top Sweden Democrat has said that rape is stated<span> </span><a href="https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=5750479">“rooted in Islam.”</a><span> </span>“Rape is deeply rooted in Muslim culture,” Michael Hess, vice president of the Sweden Democrats in Karlskrona in southern Sweden, wrote in a Facebook post.<span> </span><a href="https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/113786/muslim-migration-and-rape-statistics-in-europe-opinion/">Sweden has one of Europe’s highest rates of sexual assaults</a>.</p>
<p>Rape by Muslims is so prevalent that Sweden has forbidden the police to collect any data in the investigation that would point to Islam. Rape is part of Islamic doctrine as applied to non-Muslim women.</p>
<p>“<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/15/world/middleeast/isis-held-us-aid-worker-as-sex-slave-before-death.html?_r=0">American aid worker Kayla Mueller </a>was regularly raped by the head of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in the months between her capture by ISIS in August 2013 and her death last February.”</p>
<p>Equality under the law has no meaning in Islam. Just one example of the dreadful way of treating women in Islam is a case of a Saudi woman who was gang-raped. The Islamic court convicted the woman to a prison term and lashes for having committed the “sin” of riding in a car with a male who was not her relative. This is a standard form of Islamic Sharia justice — a savage heritage of barbarism that ruled the Arabian Peninsula some centuries ago.</p>
<p>Rape in prison is a cruel invasion of a helpless victim. In addition to the physical torment and possible transmission of sexual diseases, rape reduces the victim to subhuman status — an object for the use of others, to be discarded when no longer desired. Most civilized countries sternly guard against rape and sexual assault in prison, although with less than complete success.</p>
<p>This shockingly repugnant form of violating the human person has regrettably become widespread in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/22/dabashi.iran.morality/index.html">the Islamic Republic of Iran’s prisons</a>, particularly in dealing with the young men and women arrested for the “crime” of peacefully demonstrating in the streets to demand accountability from the government for a raft of violations it has committed and continues to commit.</p>
<p>Prisoners of conscience were routinely tortured to extract confessions about the crimes they did not commit. Some of the victims were permanently incapacitated, while others died under the brutal torture. Women prisoners were often subjected to even greater indignities than men by being raped before being executed, under the cover of marriage. A prison mullah performed the forced marriage ceremony to make it conform to the Islamic ethos.</p>
<p>Prophet Muhammad not only gave permission for rape, he also provided a religious justification for it. In this regard, it’s important to know that although Muhammad is not considered to be divine, he is held to be far above ordinary men. The Bukhari hadith contains several accounts such as this:</p>
<p>“By Allah, whenever Allah’s Messenger spitted, the spittle would fall in the hand of one of them (i.e., the Prophet’s companions) who would rub it on his face and skin; if he ordered them, they would carry out his orders immediately; if he performed ablution, they would struggle to take the remaining water…” (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 3, Book 54, No. 2731-2732)</p>
<p>Islam rewards those who become martyrs with 72 virgins. Islam, by fiat, discriminates against women. Qur’an 4:11: “Allah directs you in regard of your children’s (inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females….</p>
<p>In Islamic culture, women are treated as chattel. Young girls are subjected to barbaric genital mutilation to make them sex slaves and birth channels without the ability to enjoy intercourse. Minors are subject to execution, adulterers are stoned to death, a faithful follower of Allah can have as many as four permanent wives – and replace any of them at any time he wants.</p>
<p>In short, for as long as Western world remains in denial about massive rape epidemic by Muslims and refuses to believe Islam is the culprit, these sexual assaults will continue.<br/> <br/> <a href="https://gellerreport.com/2018/11/islam-culture-rape.html/">https://gellerreport.com/2018/11/islam-culture-rape.html/</a></p>
</div> The historical veracity of Islam and Mohammedtag:4freedoms.com,2018-06-12:3766518:Topic:1963142018-06-12T03:51:27.372ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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<p>Tommy now has a website up, relating to his book <em>Mohammed's Koran - Why Muslims Kill For Islam</em>. The website contains 5 different translations of the Koran (including the Pickthall translation used in his book).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mohammeds-koran.com/Koran" target="_blank">http://www.mohammeds-koran.com/Koran</a></p>
<p>This is an important move, as over the past 5 years at least half of the websites where one could search for verses in the Koran have disappeared. Whilst…</p>
<p>Tommy now has a website up, relating to his book <em>Mohammed's Koran - Why Muslims Kill For Islam</em>. The website contains 5 different translations of the Koran (including the Pickthall translation used in his book).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mohammeds-koran.com/Koran" target="_blank">http://www.mohammeds-koran.com/Koran</a></p>
<p>This is an important move, as over the past 5 years at least half of the websites where one could search for verses in the Koran have disappeared. Whilst there's sites like tanzil.net where you can search in Arabic and then see a single English translation, the MK site allows you to search across all 5 translations. There's no Arabic translation on Tommy's site, but I know one person who has asked that an Arabic translation be included on the site.</p>
<p>Quran Browser is a site that allows one to search across multiple translations <a href="http://quranbrowser.com/">http://quranbrowser.com/</a> . But once you have the search results, on that site you cannot move forwards/backwards in the Koran.</p>
<p>So it looks to me that Tommy's site is adding something new, although even if it was more basic, the fact that it should not disappear the way so many others have, is valuable in itself.</p>
<p>The site is also navigable by URL. So, you can construct a URL yourself and include it in debates e.g. to point someone to 9:29, you'd do </p>
<p><a href="http://mohammeds-koran.com/Koran/9/9.29" target="_blank">http://mohammeds-koran.com/Koran/9/9.29</a></p>
<p>to point to 4:76 you'd do</p>
<p><a href="http://mohammeds-koran.com/Koran/4/4.76" target="_blank">http://mohammeds-koran.com/Koran/4/4.76</a></p>
<p>I gather that the website is also going to contain searchable copies of the Hadiths and even the major Tafsirs. It seems the idea is that knowledgeable people should be able to discuss individual verses/paragraphs and point to other locations. Allowing inline discussions/linking like that would be a first for any website focusing on the texts of Islam.</p>
<p>They've also included hundreds of the enthusiastic <a href="http://mohammeds-koran.com/book-reviews/reviews-of-mohammeds-koran" target="_blank">reviews or the book</a>. The book appears to have met with an extremely enthusiastic response. I had a look at the range of reviews, and it appeared that 99% of those who gave it 5 stars had bought the book, whilst 99% of those who gave the book 1 star hadn't bought the book. It's rather amusing to see there's a small army of people from our side who take it upon themselves to rubbish any negative reviews of the book.</p> Ahmadiyya Muslimstag:4freedoms.com,2016-11-26:3766518:Topic:1842252016-11-26T13:43:27.597ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>It is time to give this group of Muslims their own Discussion group!</p>
<p>These are the peaceful, moderate, loving Muslims, the alternative to the violent Sunnis and Shiias (and their various spin-offs like Wahhabism).</p>
<p>Their strap line, seen on London buses is: Love for all, hatred for none. </p>
<p>Sounds good doesn't it?</p>
<p>I will start off with a thought.</p>
<p>Today, outside our nearby shopping centre, I asked our local distributor of free Ahmadiyya literature if he could…</p>
<p>It is time to give this group of Muslims their own Discussion group!</p>
<p>These are the peaceful, moderate, loving Muslims, the alternative to the violent Sunnis and Shiias (and their various spin-offs like Wahhabism).</p>
<p>Their strap line, seen on London buses is: Love for all, hatred for none. </p>
<p>Sounds good doesn't it?</p>
<p>I will start off with a thought.</p>
<p>Today, outside our nearby shopping centre, I asked our local distributor of free Ahmadiyya literature if he could do this sort of work in Pakistan. Could he stand in public giving out literature and promoting the Ahmadiyyan Islamic religion? He said, yes, and then he mentioned some town or area I had not heard of. I thought well maybe they can do this sort of promotion out in the countryside, or perhaps he misunderstood me, so I asked him if he could do this in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan. He said, ‘Oh no. We could not do this in Lahore or anywhere in Pakistan. If we did we would get a jail sentence of three years.’ I thought: that is if you are lucky to remain alive.</p>
<p>So I asked him: are you not grateful then to be able to set up your stall here in this country, a Christian country, and promote your beliefs? ‘Oh yes, very grateful’ he sincerely said.</p>
<p>Next week I will ask him: therefore is not this country a superior country to Pakistan and is not Christianity a superior religion to Islam? </p>
<p>Or ask him: Why then do you promote a belief system which requires another belief system to guard and protect you? Why do you promote a belief system which undermines the current system which you need to guard and protect you?</p>
<p>Stay tuned!</p>
<p>The reader no doubt can add below info about this sect of Islam which is not recognised by other Muslims as even being part of the Umma, within the Islamic fold. This is why they are murdered in their dozens on a regular basis in Pakistan.</p> Quran 9.5: qualified or not?tag:4freedoms.com,2016-06-02:3766518:Topic:1794202016-06-02T17:49:36.397ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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<p>Here's a suitable subject for the Theology Room. I recently found myself at odds with some knowledgeable counter-jihad people. After long believing that the source of Islamic supremacism was in the Koran I realised that I was wrong and those who say the jihad verses were all contextual were right. NB by supremacism I mean the eternal, global kind, not just the local ambitions of a rather nasty provincial warlord.</p>
<p>I looked at all the jihad…</p>
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<p>Here's a suitable subject for the Theology Room. I recently found myself at odds with some knowledgeable counter-jihad people. After long believing that the source of Islamic supremacism was in the Koran I realised that I was wrong and those who say the jihad verses were all contextual were right. NB by supremacism I mean the eternal, global kind, not just the local ambitions of a rather nasty provincial warlord.</p>
<p>I looked at all the jihad verses and their surrounding ones. The idolaters to be ambushed and slain and so on in 9:5, 9:29 etc are unspecified leading us to assume they refer to us in the whole of the world and 1400 years later. But when the surrounding verses do specify it's always local idolaters Mohammed happened to be fighting at the time in the Mecca area. I see no reason why the unspecified idolaters should not not mean the same people.</p>
<p>Likewise, when Allah/Mo talks about making Islam superior over all religion there is nothing to indicate all the religions all over the world forever. Those verses could plausibly be seen as being fulfilled when he destroyed the 360 other gods in the kaaba.</p>
<p>I am not saying that Mohammed was not globally supremacist, I think he was, but the evidence is elsewhere.</p>
<p>No reasonable refutation refused.</p> Pope Francis: Enemy of Christianity and Europetag:4freedoms.com,2016-05-24:3766518:Topic:1786702016-05-24T16:39:50.036ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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<p>The Pope is now part of the problem, and the enemy of freedom and European values.</p>
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<h1 class="book-heading">The Sunni Theory of Government</h1>
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<h1 class="book-heading">The Sunni Theory of Government</h1>
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Those Muslims who claim that they follow the traditions (the statements and practices) of Muhammad Mustafa, the Prophe of Islam, <em>and </em>of his companions, are called Ahl-es-Sunnat wal-Jama'at or Sunni. They also call themselves “orthodox” Muslims, and they make up the overwhelming majority of the Muslims in the world.</p>
<p>The Sunni Muslims believe that the Prophet of Islam did not designate anyone as his successor, and he (probably) assumed that after his death, the Muslims would find a leader for themselves. They further say that the Prophet did not even tell his followers how they ought to select their future leaders or what qualifications those leaders should have.</p>
<p>Thus, lacking both precedent and guidance in the matter of finding their leaders, the companions had no choice but to take recourse to improvisation.</p>
<p>But improvisation is not policy, and inevitably, it turned out to be a rather erratic manner of finding leaders of the Muslim <em>umma</em> (community). In one case the companions found a leader through what was supposed to be an election.</p>
<p>In another case, the first incumbent (who was elected), nominated and appointed his own successor.</p>
<p>In the third instance, the second incumbent (who was nominated), appointed a committee of six men and charged them with the duty of selecting one out of themselves as the future leader of the Muslim community.</p>
<p>The third leader, so selected, was killed in the midst of anarchy and chaos, and the <em>umma</em> was left without a head. The companions then turned to the family of their Prophet, and appealed to one of its members to take charge of the government of the Muslims, and thereby to save it from breakdown and dissolution.</p>
<p>The fourth incumbent was still ruling the Muslims when a new candidate for leadership arose in Syria. He brushed aside the hoax of election, challenged the lawful sovereign of the Muslims by invoking the principle of brute force, and succeeded in capturing the government. His action brought the number of the “principles” for finding leaders of the Muslim <em>umma</em> to four, viz.</p>
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<p>Abu Bakr was elected khalifa (successor of the Prophet) by a majority vote in Saqifa.(Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth incumbent, was also elected khalifa by a majority of the Muhajireen and Ansar who were present in Medina at the death of the third khalifa).</p>
<h2><a name="2-nomination" href="http://www.al-islam.org/print/book/export/html/27977#2-nomination" id="2-nomination">2. Nomination:</a></h2>
<p>Umar was appointed by Abu Bakr as his successor.</p>
<h2><a name="3-selection-plutocrats" href="http://www.al-islam.org/print/book/export/html/27977#3-selection-plutocrats" id="3-selection-plutocrats">3. Selection by plutocrats:</a></h2>
<p>Uthman was selected khalifa by a committee of six men appointed by Umar.</p>
<h2><a name="4-seizure-government-naked-force" href="http://www.al-islam.org/print/book/export/html/27977#4-seizure-government-naked-force" id="4-seizure-government-naked-force">4. Seizure of the government by naked force:</a></h2>
<p>Muawiya bin Abu Sufyan seized the government of the Muslims by military action.</p>
<p>The Sunni Muslims consider all these four “principles” as lawful and valid. In this manner, four different “constitutional” modes of finding a leader for the Muslim <em>umma</em> came into being.</p>
<p>Here it should be pointed out that though the Sunni Muslims have given to each of these four different modes of finding leaders for the <em>umma</em>, the “status” of a “principle,” none of them was derived from the Book of God (Qur’an) or from the Book of the Prophet (Hadith). All of them were derived from the events which took place <em>after the death of the Prophet of Islam.</em></p>
<p>In the history of any country, constitution-making is the first step toward nation-building. The constitution is the organic law of the land. It is the basic framework of public authority. It determines and defines the responsibilities, duties and powers of the government.</p>
<p>All major decisions affecting the interests of the nation, are taken in the light of its principles. Whatever is in agreement with it, is held legal and valid; whatever is not, is discarded as unconstitutional.</p>
<p><strong>H.A.R. Gibb</strong></p>
<p>The law precedes the state, both logically and in terms of time; and the state exists for the sole purpose of maintaining and enforcing the law.” <em>(Law in the Middle East)</em></p>
<p>But the Sunni theory of government suffers from a built-in anomaly. As a rule, policies and actions of the political leaders ought to follow the principles of the constitution; but they do not. Instead, it is the constitution that follows the events resulting from the decisions and actions of the political leaders. In other words, it is not the constitution that runs the government; it is, instead, the government, i.e., the political leaders heading the government who “run” the constitution.</p>
<p>Actually, there is no such thing as a Sunni theory of government. Whenever a new event took place, the Sunni jurists invoked a new “theory” or a new “principle” to rationalize it. In this manner they invested their theory of government with a protean character and a flexibility which is truly remarkable.</p>
<p>The Sunni theory and practice of government have been studied and analyzed by many students of Islamic political development, both ancient and modern, Muslim and non-Muslim. The author of <em>Sharh-Mawaqif</em>, a classical Arab writer, believes that the only requirement in a candidate for leadership, is his ability to seize and to hold power. He says:</p>
<p>“When an Imam dies and a person possessing the necessary qualifications claims that office (without the oath of allegiance, i.e., <em>Bay'a,</em> having been taken for him, and without his having been nominated to succeed), his claim to caliphate will be recognized, provided his power subdues the people; and apparently the same will be the case when the new caliph happens to be ignorant or immoral.</p>
<p>And similarly when a caliph has thus established himself by superior force and is afterwards subdued by another person, the overpowered caliph will be deposed and the conqueror will be recognized as Imam or Caliph.”</p>
<p>Another analyst of classical times, Taftazani, is of the opinion that a leader may be a tyrant or he may be immoral; he is nevertheless a lawful ruler of the Muslims. He writes in his book,<em>Sharh-Aqa'id-Nasafi:</em></p>
<p>“An Imam is not liable to be deposed on the grounds of his being oppressive or impious.”</p>
<p>Stewart Robinson has quoted Imam Ghazzali, in his book, <em>The Traditional Near East</em>, as saying:</p>
<p>“An evil-doing and barbarous sultan must be obeyed.”</p>
<p>Some modern analysts of the Islamic political thought have also noted the inconsistencies in the Sunni theory of government. Following is the testimony of a few of them:</p>
<p><strong>H.A.R. Gibb</strong></p>
<p>Sunni political theory was, in fact, only the rationalization of the history of the community. Without precedents, no theory, and all the imposing fabric of interpretation of the sources, is merely the <em>post eventum</em> justification of the precedents which have been ratified by <em>ijma. (Studies on the Civilization of Islam, 1962)</em></p>
<p><strong>Bernard Lewis</strong></p>
<p>The first four caliphs, sanctified by Muslim tradition as the righteous rulers, did indeed emerge from the Muslim elite on a non-hereditary basis, by processes which might be described as electoral in the Sunni legal sense; but three of the four reigns were ended by murder, the last two amid civil war.</p>
<p>Thereafter, the Caliphate in effect became hereditary in two successive dynasties, the Umayyads and the Abbasids, whose system and style of government owed rather more to the autocratic empires of antiquity than to the patriarchal community of Medina.</p>
<p>The subject's duty of obedience remained, and was indeed reinforced; the Caliph's obligation to meet the requirements of eligibility and fulfill the conditions of incumbency was emptied of most of its content.</p>
<p>This disparity between theory and practice – between the noble precepts of the law and the brutal facts of government - has led some scholars to dismiss the whole political and constitutional system of the classical Muslim jurists as an abstract and artificial construction, as little related to reality as the civil liberties enshrined in the constitutions of modern dictatorships. The comparison is exaggerated and unjust. The great jurists of medieval Islam were neither stupid nor corrupt – neither ignorant of reality, nor suborned to defend it.</p>
<p>On the contrary, they were moved by a profound religious concern, arising precisely from their awareness of the gap between the ideals of Islam and the practice of Muslim states. The problem of the juristic writers on Muslim government was deeper than that posed by the conduct of one or another individual ruler. It concerned the direction taken by Muslim society as a whole since the days of the Prophet – a direction that had led it very far from the ethical and political ideas of prophetic Islam.</p>
<p>Yet to impugn the validity of the system of government under which the Muslims lived was to impugn the orthodoxy of the Islamic <em>umma</em>, a position unacceptable to the Sunni ulema, whose very definition of orthodoxy rested on the precedent and practice of the community.</p>
<p>The jurist was thus obliged, in some measure, to justify the existing order, so as to vindicate the Sunni faith and system against the charge that they had gone astray and had led the Muslims into a state of sin. <em>(The chapter on Politics and War published in the volume, Legacy of Islam</em><em>,</em><em> 1974)</em></p>
<p><strong>G. E. Von Grunebaum</strong></p>
<p>In the presentation of the role of the caliph, one senses the uneasy efforts of the author to harmonize the ideal task and the humble facts of his period. The law has laid down unalterable principles, never envisaging the increasing incapacity of the prince of the Believers to exercise even his more modest duties.</p>
<p>So theory is compelled to compromise, to stretch the concept of election to include election by one qualified voter - in other words, to sanction the actual situation in which the caliph is appointed by his predecessor or the military leader who happens to be in control. Even the possibility of a plurality of leaders of the community has to be admitted. As in other ages and other civilizations, the theory of power comes to be a weapon in the fight for power. <em>(Islam, London, 1969)</em></p>
<p><strong>John Alden Williams</strong></p>
<p>A representative statement of how Muslim legalists of the later medieval period viewed the problems of power and Islamic leadership is shown by a Syrian contemporary of Ibn Taymiya (and with whom the Hanbali naturally disagreed).</p>
<p>Ibn Jama'a (d. 1333) who was one of the highest officials of the Mamluke religious establishment, and twice Chief Qadi of Cairo. Although he was a Shaf'i, like al-Mawardi, it is Ibn Jama'a's view which conforms to that of Ahmad ibn Hanbal in the creedal statement found in the dogma: the Imam in power is to be obeyed regardless of how he came there.</p>
<p>In a conflict between unity and justice, the unity of the <em>umma</em> must have precedence. By extension, whoever wields effective power in any area must be recognized by the Imam, if he has no means of removing him. In short, rulers must be treated as if they were perfect whether they are or not: the need of the Community guarded from error require it. It is a logical view but Ibn Taymiya felt that it was morally bankrupt. <em>(From Imam and Legality. From Emancipated Judgment in the Governance of Muslims. By Ibn Jama'a (d. 1333 A.D.), Al-Ahkam fi Tadbir Ahl al-Islam).</em></p>
<p>‘The Imamate is of two sorts: that by election, and that by usurpation. The elected Imamate is confirmed by two methods, and the usurped Imamate by a third method. The first method in the elected Imamate is by an oath <em>of those with power to loose and bind</em>. The second method is for the Imam to be chosen as successor by the one before him.</p>
<p>‘As for the third method, by which the acclamation of a usurper is made valid, it is effected by overcoming the wielder of effective power, and if there is no Imam at the time, and one sets himself up who is otherwise not qualified for the office, and overcomes people by his power and by his troops without any election or appointment to the succession, then his acclamation is valid and one is bound to obey him, so that the unity of the Muslims be assured and they speak with one voice.</p>
<p>It makes no difference if he is ignorant or unjust, according to the most correct opinion, and then another rises and overcomes the first by his power and troops, and the first is deposed, then the second becomes the Imam, for the sake, as we have said, of the welfare of the Muslims and their unity of expression. For this reason, Umar's son said at the Battle of Harra: “<em>We are with the one who wins” (page 91).</em></p>
<p>In effect, the <em>Umma</em> entrusted its affairs to a Caliph, and asked him to be a perfect absolute ruler. Apart from the question of whether this is not usually a contradiction in terms, there was no sure apparatus for choosing him or ensuring a peaceful transmission of his power, and often or even usually men came to power by violent means. Once they were there, there was no mechanism for removing them except more violence, which was forbidden by law.</p>
<p>It was a melancholy fact that in most states, except those few like the Ottoman and Mughal empires who succeeded in establishing the principle of hereditary succession, “<em>nothing so well suited a man for power as criminal instincts.”. (Themes of Islamic Civilization, 1971, University of California Press, Berkeley)</em></p>
<p>The Sunni jurists and theorists were capable of making endless adjustments and compromises. They were willing to acknowledge as lawful rulers, not only the Muslim tyrants and usurpers but also the non-Muslim ones.</p>
<p><strong>Bernard Lewis</strong></p>
<p>Much has been written about the influence of the Crusades on Europe. Rather less has been written about the effects of these and related struggles on the lands of Islam. For the first time since the beginning, the Muslims had been compelled by military defeat to cede vast areas of old Islamic territory to Christian rulers, and to leave large Muslim populations under Christian rule. Both facts were accepted with remarkable equanimity.</p>
<p>In both West and East, Muslim rulers were willing to have dealings with their new neighbors, and even on occasion to make alliances with them against brother Muslims - as an obligation of the Holy Law - of submitting to tyrants, had little difficulty in extending the argument to include unbelievers.</p>
<p><em>Whose power prevails must be obeyed,'</em> provided only that he allows Muslims to practice their religion and obey the Holy Law. The realm of such a sovereign may even, according to some jurists, be considered as part of the House of Islam. <em>(Politics and War</em><em>,</em><em> published in the book, Legacy of Islam).</em></p>
<p>The sum and substance of the foregoing analysis is that the Sunni theory of government admits of only one principle, viz., brute force. Almost all Sunni jurists and theorists have given their blessings to this “principle.” As a principle, brute force has been the only constant of the Sunni theory of government ever since Muawiya seized the caliphate in A.D. 661.</p>
<p>It means that if a man can revive, in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, as elsewhere, the ancient law known as “Might is Right,” he is the lawful ruler of the Muslim <em>umma</em>. The government has no theory or structure or instrumentality beyond arbitrary force. The commandments of God enshrined in Al-Qur’an al-Majid, the wishes, the precedents and the commandments of His Messenger, and the code of ethics, all are, irrelevant.</p>
<p>Not so surprisingly perhaps, this attitude of the Sunni jurists persists into modern times. The Congress of the Caliphate meeting in Cairo, Egypt, in 1926, laid it down that a Muslim can legitimately become a caliph if he establishes his claim by conquest, even if he does not fulfill any of the other conditions required by the jurists.</p>
<p>In his analysis given above, Dr. Williams has quoted Abdullah the son of Umar bin al-Khattab (the second khalifa) as stating that he (Abdullah) is with the winner whoever he may be. This Abdullah was noted for his piety and religious zeal and knowledge. He spent or tried to spend as much time in the company of the Prophet as he could, and if he (Abdullah) said anything, it was (and still is) considered something most authoritative in the entire Sunni establishment. It's amazing that he didn't think that in any conflict between two individuals or two groups, the question of right and wrong had any relevance. The only important thing was winning.</p>
<p>According to him, whoever wins, is right. If a gangster succeeds in liquidating all his competitors and becomes the unquestioned winner in a struggle for power, then the logic of success would make him the ideal material for the most important executive office in the Muslim world. All he has to do to prove that he is the most highly qualified candidate for the throne of caliphate, is to demonstrate that he can seize it by brute force, and if he does, it will be his - no credentials in Islam like brute force!</p>
<p>The Sunni jurists, theorists and political analysts have shown astonishing consistency, in all their expositions, in upholding the principle that obedience must be given to whoever has power in his hands. This probably is the reason why passive obedience to the ruler has been, in the words of Elie Kedourie, “the dominant political tradition in Islam,” and why the excessive respect of the Muslims for the <em>fait accompli</em> has given “its unmistakable character to Muslim history.”</p>
<p>The Shia Muslims discount the Sunni theory of government for its lack of moral consensus and its lack of consistency. They say that a principle must either be right or it must be wrong, and the only touchstone to test if it is right or wrong, is Al-Qur’an al-Majid. Muslims of the whole world may unanimously enact a law but if it is repugnant to Qur’an, it cannot be Islamic. The source of moral consensus in Islam is Qur’an, and not the “majority.”</p>
<p>The Shia Muslims also say that there must be consistency in the application of a law or a principle. But if there is not, and a new “law” or a new “principle” has to be invoked to fit each new situation, then it will have to be called not policy but expediency.</p>
<p>As noted above, the only consistency in the Sunni theory of government is to be found in the unqualified acceptance, by Sunni jurists and scholars, of the “principle” that power is the arbiter of this world, and Muslims, therefore, must kowtow to it. Even Imam Ghazali says that this “principle” must be upheld because it is a commandment to the Muslims of Al-Qur’an al-Majid itself.</p>
<p>Imam Ghazali is one of the most prestigious figures in the Muslim world. He is generally considered the greatest theologian of Sunni Islam. Some Sunni scholars have gone so far as to claim that if any man could be a Prophet after Muhammad Mustafa, he would be Imam Ghazali.</p>
<p>And yet, he advised Muslims to acquiesce in the abuse of autocratic power by a dictator or a military leader because (he said that) their obligation to obey the established authority rested upon the text of Qur’an itself: “Obey God, His Apostle and those at the head of the affairs.” It is amazing that a man like Imam Ghazali could do nothing more than endorse a most stereotypical interpretation of this verse.</p>
<p>Al-Qur’an al-Majid, incidentally, is a stranger to all the theories of government and principles of political organization discovered, articulated and codified by the majority of the Muslims, and this for a very simple reason, viz., it has its own theory of government and its own political philosophy. It does not have, therefore, any interest in any alien theory or philosophy of government.</p>
<p>Qur’an's political philosophy has been dealt with in another chapter in this book.</p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.al-islam.org/restatement-history-islam-and-muslims-sayyid-ali-ashgar-razwy/sunni-theory-government">http://www.al-islam.org/restatement-history-islam-and-muslims-sayyid-ali-ashgar-razwy/sunni-theory-government</a></span></p>
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<p>"The Fear Machine" is my gloss on the following article. The guy's idea that Islam needs to be reformed is a non-starter (as some point out in the comments).</p>
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<br/>by Bob Smith<br/>bob311w9@yahoo.com<br/><br/><br/>Would you wear a T-shirt with a Mohammad cartoon printed on it?<br/><br/>You might in Montana. Don’t try it in Mecca.<br/><br/>Why? <br/><br/>Because, Islam trains a small number of its most devout believers it’s OK to kill. And Islamic killers have been trained to kill anyone who insults Allah and/or Mohammad.<br/><br/>In Montana you’d have a good chance none of these Islamic killers would see you.<br/><br/>In Mecca you wouldn’t last five minutes. One of Islam’s killers would come from out of nowhere and kill you. It is that simple.<br/><br/>You don’t believe me? Ask any Muslim!<br/><br/>This article is about these Islamic killers and the fear they generate.<br/><br/>Islamic society is trapped by a self-replicating, endless cycle of violence and fear, driven by its most devout believers. The cycle goes like this.<br/><br/><strong>The Violence</strong> <br/><br/><br/>
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<li>They blend in with the general population and cannot be easily identified until they commit their acts of violence. </li>
<li>The number of these devout believers is high enough to reach a sort of critical mass – which assures continuation of the endless loop.</li>
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<strong><br/></strong><br/><strong>The Fear</strong><br/>
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<br/>Because (1) these potential killers are trained everywhere within Islam and evenly distributed throughout the greater Islamic population (ummah) and (2) because they cannot be easily identified, it means any devout believer anywhere could be the next killer. Every Muslim is aware of this potential threat (fear) from these most devout believers. As a result all Muslims suffer from the same fear that drives the system.<br/><br/>The violence and fear created by these devout believers has a profound effect on Islam. It is at the core of what Islam has become. The violence/fear cycle is responsible for all the irregularities of Islamic society. It is why Muslims seem so pious (fear of a negative response from the most devout believers). It is why Muslims don’t leave the faith and why they don’t integrate when they emigrate. (The killers are trained to kill anyone who leaves the faith). It is why moderate Muslims never speak up (the killers are trained to kill anyone who questions the faith). It is why Muslims from Morocco to the Philippines riot over a handful of cartoons or a simple comment from the Pope. (The killers’ riot and others go along in order to look pious.)<br/><br/>This violence/fear cycle leaves a deep psychic scar on Muslim society and is responsible for what Islam is. Understanding this violence/fear system is the ultimate key to understanding Islam. No attempts to deal with Islamic violence will ever succeed unless they address the cause of this violence/fear cycle. <br/><br/>Describing this violence/fear system - the Islamic killers - and their cyclical nature is difficult for a number of reasons. First and foremost the violence/fear system is huge. Even though it is in plain sight, its sheer size and uniqueness makes it difficult to see. Additionally most Muslims (and non-Muslim apologists) deny the existence of these killers. Furthermore because these killers are widely and evenly distributed throughout Islamic society and usually never seen until they commit their acts of violence, it is difficult to connect these independent killers into any kind of Islamic cyclical system. Also because the system is cyclical, the starting point of the discussion is difficult to identify.<br/><br/>Let’s start by discussing the fear created by these killers.<br/><br/><strong>Islamic Fear</strong><br/><br/>Islamic fear is easy to understand and feel if you know what to look for. Let’s look closely at two Islamic fear scenarios. The first is the case of the Mohammad cartoon T-shirt mentioned above. The second is the murder of Theo Van Gogh in Amsterdam and the subsequent publication of the Mohammad cartoons.<br/><br/><strong>The Mohammad Cartoon T-Shirt Scenario</strong><br/>
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<br/>It is easy to understand how a person living in Montana could comfortably wear a Mohammad cartoon T-shirt. There are few, if any, Muslims in Montana. The chance of being spotted by one of these Islamic killers is slim. As a result, most people would not be intimidated. The Islamic fear factor in Montana – low.<br/><br/>But in Dearborn Michigan the situation is different. Dearborn has a fairly large Muslim population. Wearing a Mohammad cartoon T-shirt in Dearborn Michigan could have some risk. Somewhere in the Muslim community, a devout believer might take offence. And that offence might lead to violence. As a result, some people might be intimidated. Islamic fear factor in Dearborn – medium.<br/><br/>Now take the same Mohammad cartoon T-shirt scenario to an even larger Muslim population – say the Muslim section of London. The Muslim section of London has a population of over one million. You can be sure, somewhere in this community there are a number of Islamic killers. Considering the recent transit attack that killed over 50, and the failed bombing attempts, it is easy to imagine a deeply devout Muslim taking offence. As a result, a large percentage of people might be intimidated. Islamic fear factor in London – high.<br/><br/>Finally, let’s imagine the fear you would feel in a nearly 100% Muslim society. Imagine wearing the Mohammad cartoon T-shirt in Mecca, Cairo or Tehran. The fear would be over powering. The simple fact is – as I said above - you would not last five minutes. One of Islam’s killers would come from out of nowhere and kill you. As a result, most reasonable people would be intimidated. Islamic fear factor in Mecca, Cairo, or Tehran – exceptionally high.<br/><br/>(Two notes. (1) In a nearly all-Muslim population such as Mecca, Cairo or Tehran, the killer would, more than likely, walk away a free man. He would not be prosecuted for his act. At the local mosque he would be treated with respect for defending Islam. (2) If you are a non-Muslim in Mecca you would be killed outright – non-Muslims are not allowed in Mecca.)<br/><br/>I have chosen this T-shirt scenario for two simple reasons. First, it is real. (I challenge anyone to prove otherwise with the following straightforward method. Simply wear a Mohammad cartoon T-shirt in a prominent place in Tehran. Make a short video and post it on YouTube.) Second, it is easy to understand. Montana – almost no Muslims – no Islamic fear. Mecca, Cairo and Tehran - almost all Muslims – exceptionally high Islamic fear. If you look at this Mohammad cartoon T-shirt scenario it becomes quite clear - the greater the percentage of Muslims in a given situation - the greater the Islamic fear factor.<br/><br/>The most important thing to remember about this Mohammad cartoon T-shirt discussion is this. What exactly is it that causes this fear? The answer is this. There is a real fear that some deeply devout Muslim believer will come from out of nowhere and kill you. (This is an important detail. Keep it in mind.)<br/><br/><strong>The Murder of Theo Van Gogh and the Mohammad cartoons</strong><br/>
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<br/>Now, let’s look at the murder of Theo Van Gogh in Amsterdam and the subsequent reason for the publication of the Mohammad cartoons.<br/><br/>Theo Van Gogh had made a film that was critical of how Islam treats women. Van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic killer named Mohammed Bouyeri. According to published reports, Mr. Bouyeri, at his trial told the court, Van Gogh had insulted Islam. "What moved me to do what I did was purely my faith," Bouyeri said, "I was motivated by the law that commands me to cut off the head of anyone who insults Allah and his prophet."<br/><br/>Mr. Bouyeri in reality had done two things. First he had killed Theo Van Gogh. But even more importantly he had helped spread this same Islamic fear (the fear that some deeply devout Muslim believer will come from out of nowhere and kill you) throughout those parts of Western Europe where many Muslims (though only a minority of less than 10%) now live.<br/><br/>The Islamic fear spread by the murder of Van Gogh was part of the reason why Flemming Rose, the publisher of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, published the “Mohammad cartoons”.<br/><br/>Mr. Rose said in a Washington Post article February 19, 2006, he “commissioned the cartoons in response to several incidents of self-censorship in Europe caused by widening fears and feelings of intimidation in dealing with issues related to Islam. … Our goal was simply to push back self-imposed limits on expression that seemed to be closing in tighter.”<br/><br/>Flemming Rose was describing a form of the Islamic fear factor. (The fear some deeply devout Muslim believer will come from out of nowhere and kill you.) Similar to what I point out in the T-shirt scenario above.<br/><br/><strong>Islamic Fear by the numbers</strong><br/><br/>Now let’s look at this European Islamic fear reality as described by Flemming Rose and see if it can help us understand the fear inside a nearly 100% Muslim society.<br/><br/>Keep in mind that Muslims make up less than 10% of Western European population. Yet, even when Muslims only represent this small percentage of the general population, the potential presence of Islamic killers has had the effect, according to, Flemming Rose, of creating “self-imposed limits on expression that seemed to be closing in tighter.”<br/><br/>Think of this reality. Western Europeans, who have grown up believing in free speech, living in their own free and open societies, are afraid to talk critically about Islam when Muslims make up less than 10% of the Western European population.<br/><br/>So now think of what it must be like inside a Muslim society where essentially 100% of the population is Muslim. The fear factor must be at least 10 times greater.<br/><br/>Imagine a nearly 100% Muslim society, a Muslim society where unseen religious killers, like Bouyeri, roam literally everywhere. Free expression and critical discussion of Islam within Muslim society is essentially shut off. Shut off by Islam’s dark force of fear. Shut off by the fear of the unseen religious killers.<br/><br/>This inability to talk critically about Islam inside Islamic society is one of the main reasons why Islam is stuck in its endless cycle of violence. Muslims can clearly see the violence surrounding them. But they know all too well, any critical discussion on the issue might draw the attention of a killer like Mohammed Bouyeri. As a result most Muslims live in fear of a system that keeps them quiet. Inside a system they have no control of.<br/><br/>So now we have a beginning idea of what the Islamic fear is, let’s move on and discuss who these Islamic killers are.<br/><br/><strong>Who are the killers?</strong><br/>
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<br/>In order to start the discussion on the Islamic killers let’s look at a trait common to all religions. Religious believers come in all degrees of belief. Some are only marginal believers, and some are quite devout. For the sake of this discussion, let’s arrange a horizontal line called a “Belief Index” scale. On it, we can spread out the believers from least devout to most devout.<br/><br/>It goes like this. On the far left you have the least devout believers. Some of these have so little belief they might be considered secular. On the right side we find the most devout.<br/><br/>Let’s give the “belief index” scale numeric values from 1 to 10. Where 1 equals least devout and 10 equals most devout.<br/><br/>------------------------------Belief Index-----------------------------<br/>Least Devout ------------------------------------------Most Devout<br/>---- 1-----2-----3----- 4-----5----- 6-----7-----8-----9-----10 ---<br/><br/>Islamic killers come from the ranks of Islam’s most devout believers. On the “belief index” scale these believers fall somewhere in the 9.75 to 10 range. These believers, under the right combination of facts and situation would be willing to commit violence in the name of Islam.<br/><br/>These most devout believers have been religiously trained to believe numerous calls to violence found within Islamic teachings. The Koran, Hadith, and Sunnah, the foundational base of Islam, all have numerous calls to violence. Additionally, Islamic scholars, the mullah infrastructure, fatwas and societal norms support violence in the name of Islam. Islam’s most devout believers, accept as true, they have a God given authority to commit violence for the benefit of Islam. (Just as Mr. Bouyeri stated above.)<br/><br/>In actual numbers these most devout believers – those willing to commit violence in the name of Islam - represent most likely somewhere between 1/10th of 1% and 10% of the general population. That is between one out of a thousand and one out of ten.<br/><br/>The Muslim population is presently about 1.3 billion. That means the number of potential killers ranges from as little as 1.3 million to as many as 130 million. Even at the lowest estimate, the 1.3 million killers becomes a huge threat. At 130 million the threat is hard to imagine.<br/><br/>This wide variation in the number of potential killers in the general population is due to a number of factors. First, the majority of these killers never really “sign up” to be part of an Islamic force per se, so it is impossible to know how many there actually are. Additionally, most act out of a deep religious conviction that could change from day to day. Also, the structure of Islam has no central authority; so on any given day any devout believer might independently decide to fulfill his religious destiny. Furthermore, certain important Islamic issues (such as defending Islam from perceived threats – as in Iraq) might persuade a larger percentage of devout believers to fulfill their religious obligation.<br/><br/>To make matters worse, even though the numbers of these most devout believers – the ones willing to commit violence for Islam - might be limited, there is second group who augment and amplify the effect of these killers. These are the sympathizers and supporters of religious violence.<br/><br/>These sympathizers and supporters (8-9.75 on “belief index” chart) in reality act as the eyes and ears of the killers. Even though the sympathizers might not be willing to commit violence, they are willing to support it. They are also willing to talk about what they see. When the sympathizers and the most devout gather at the mosques or other social situations, they engage in small talk and conversation, which brings new data to the killer’s attention. This spreads the fear factor far and wide.<br/><br/>In sheer numbers, the combination of the sympathizers and the most devout, most likely make up about 20% of the general Muslim population. That means about one out of five individuals is either a killer or a sympathizer. Because their identities are transparent or unknown, the sympathizers’ presence adds to the fear factor discussed above.<br/><br/>(Imagine being Muslim in this scenario. Each time you get together with 5 or more friends you could statistically be with one of these devout killers or sympathizers. Would you be willing to talk candidly about issues of religion unless you were really “sure” about your friends?)<br/><br/>Because of the Islamic principle of taqiyya (deception in the furtherance of Islam) Muslims for the most part refuse to acknowledge this “group” of killers. Furthermore, the killers would kill anyone who would shed light on or criticize them. Non-Muslims usually do not acknowledge these killers because of some combination of ignorance and political correctness. Additionally the veil of religious legitimacy given to Islam further confuses the issue.<br/><br/>These killers can be independent, unorganized individuals like Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo Van Gogh in Amsterdam. These independent killers act like self-appointed “free agents”. Under Islamic law they are independently empowered to enforce Islamic sharia law. Because of their (1) “free agency”, (2) their ability to remain unnoticed until they act, (3) their even distribution within Islamic society, and (4) their sheer numbers - these “free agency” potential killers are responsible for the overwhelming majority of fear within Muslim society. When these “free agent’ killers do their work in the non-Muslim world, their actions are usually seen as criminal acts, unrelated to Islamic calls to violence.<br/><br/>Islam’s killers can also be organized into all sizes and types of groups - from two man cells to large organizations like al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah or other terrorist organizations. These groups can act independently or in conjunction with other groups or individuals. Their actions require no central authority but may be coordinated with other groups. Any independent “free agent” can start his own organization. Size and reach is only limited by the organizational skills of the individuals involved. Any and all of these groups can help or receive help other groups. Muslim governments routinely provide clandestine support for many of these groups at the same time claiming these groups are “non-governmental actors.”<br/><br/>While most of the killers come from the extreme right side of the religious index chart, some of the less devout believers may succumb to what has been called “sudden jihadi syndrome”. That is, under the right set of circumstances, they could be swayed to commit violence.<br/><br/>Islam’s killers can act anonymously. Like the killers who leave bombs in public places or the motorcyclist tossing a grenade into a crowd. Other killers proudly come out and do their work in public, like Mohammed Bouyeri the killer of Van Gogh. <br/><br/>Some Islamic killers are often quite easy to see. They can routinely be found in the news. The 19 men on September 11 were Islamic killers. The endless stream of Iraqi and Afghani suicide bombers are Islamic killers. The men in London who bombed the transit system were Islamic killers. The murderers in Beslan, Russia were part of the group.<br/><br/>In Thailand Islamic killers decapitate schoolgirls and gun down plantation workers. In the Philippines they bomb markets and ferries. In Spain they bombed the transit system. In Jordan they bomb weddings and gun down college professors. In Egypt they shoot tourists at the pyramids, bomb hotels and murder former president Anwar Sadat.<br/><br/>In India the killers have hit Mumbai a number of times and make life miserable in Kashmir. In Africa, Islam’s killers work in Kenya setting off bombs at the US embassy. In Sudan they are responsible for the killing in Darfur. In Lebanon they launch missiles into Israel. In Argentina they bombed the Israeli embassy.<br/><br/>In Western Europe the killers work within the Muslim ghettos making sure that Muslims don’t leave the faith. In France they bomb the subways and help incite the riots of 2006.<br/><br/>Even in the US, Islamic killers do their work. Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood, John Allen Muhammad shot ten people in the Washington DC area. In Salt Lake City Sulejmen Talovic killed five people in a shopping mall. In Seattle Naveed Afzal Haq killed one and wounded four. At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a recent graduate from Iran, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, drove his SUV into a crowd of students. In NJ six killers made plans to attack Fort Dix. (Note here. Conventional wisdom would have us believe these acts were all independent criminal acts. The reality is this. These acts were all part of what you should expect from Islam’s violent cyclical system.)<br/><br/>Any place on the face of the globe where you find Muslims you will also find Islam’s killers. Because these killers are relatively evenly dispersed throughout Islamic society, the more Muslims, the more killers.<br/><br/>The type of work these killers do depends on the percentage of Muslims in the society they are working in.<br/><br/>Inside Muslim society, their primary task is to keep Islam alive. They do this by killing anyone who (1) insults Allah or (2) insults Mohammad or (3) questions or tries to change Islam, or (4) tries to leave the faith. (This is why Muslims seem so pious, don’t leave the faith and moderates don’t speak up.) Additionally in Muslim society their task is to enhance adherence to and enforce Islamic Sharia law. In Afghanistan the killers blow up girls schools to enforce their ideal of a true Islamic state. In Egypt they killed Anwar Sadat because he had gone against Islamic law by trying to make peace with Israel.<br/><br/>In those places where Islamic society comes into contact with non-Muslim society, such as the situation now in Western Europe, one of their primary tasks is to make sure Muslims do not assimilate into their host society. (Again making sure that Islam is kept alive.) Their other tasks include terrorizing non-Muslims into conversion to Islam or acceptance of Islamic Sharia law. This terrorization can take the form of criminal behavior or, a constant low-grade gorilla war like conflict. Examples of the latter are Kashmir, the Balkans, Thailand, the Philippines, sub Sahara Africa, and now even Western Europe.<br/><br/>The killers are overwhelmingly young and male. Women have become a small number of recent killers. They come from all economic and educational strata. Poverty is not a cause, but does work to the advantage of devout believers looking for new “recruits”.<br/><br/>This system even finds a way to harness the destructive power of its young male social misfits. They can practice their destructive ways on non-Muslims in the form of rapes, muggings, and general mayhem and receive positive feedback from the most devout. This is why Western European jails have such a high percentage of Muslim inmates.<br/><br/>The sad reality about Islam’s killers is this; Because Islam makes a continuous claim of religious legitimacy, Islam, as a system, can rely on a huge, unpaid, unseen, unorganized, individually acting, empowered to act, widely distributed group of highly motivated devout believers who are willing to kill in order to keep Islam the way it is.<br/><br/>These devout believers in reality represent an unconventional unseen phantom army. An army where no one needs orders and each soldier knows exactly what to do. An army where no one is really in control. An army as deadly as any on earth.<br/><br/><strong>How does the system continuously train the killers?</strong><br/>
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<br/>So now we know a bit about Islamic fear. We also have an idea of who some of the Islamic killers are. Let’s look at where the killers come from and some of the rules, regulations, social traditions and societal norms that create Islam’s self-replicating endless cycle of violence.<br/><br/>(This selection of rules, regulations and such, represents on a tiny fraction of the directives controlling Islam. In reality the Islamic system comes together like the “perfect storm”, with literally thousands of directives working to keep Islam the way it is. The directives I have chosen to mention here are some of the easiest to see and understand.)<br/><br/>Islam isn’t just a religion. It is a complete social system. (Numerous writers have called it a totalitarian system.) Islamic Sharia law includes rules for almost everything from birth to death. And a large portion of these rules work to perpetuate the Islam itself.<br/><br/>One key rule states; all children born to Muslims are automatically Muslim. This means all Muslims (except converts) have no say in their own participation in Islam. It also means that all parents have no say in whether or not their children are Muslims. It also insures a continuous crop of new potential devout believers – the next generation of Islamic killers.<br/><br/>Another important rule says “Islam is more important than family.” Because Islamic extended families are usually large, it is hard to imagine a family without either a deeply devout (potential killer) or a sympathizer. This means, within every extended family, the most religiously devout believers make sure the rest of the family is properly Islamic. It also means parents, will receive pressures from other family members making sure all children are exposed to Islamic dogma. As a result, all children receive Islamic training from birth on.<br/><br/>Once a child reaches school age the training becomes institutionalized. This starts at the lowest grades and continues throughout all of a child’s education. While not all schools are strictly Islamic, all schools in Islamic society require all students to study Islamic subjects.<br/><br/>In poorer Islamic countries where government run schools may not exist or may not be free, there are usually Islamic schools. Most of these Islamic schools are free. These schools teach a more intense Islamic curricula.<br/><br/>In addition there are also thousands of madrassas (20,000+ in Pakistan alone) teaching millions of students spread throughout Islam. These madrassas teach an unyielding form of Islam. It can include rote memorization of the Koran, and teaching of the Islamic passages calling on devout believers to commit violence in the name of Islam.<br/><br/>Within the educational system, the devout believers and sympathizers again make their presence felt. Anyone trying to moderate the teaching of Islamic materials, risks the wrath of an unseen killer.<br/><br/>By the time children become adults, a small percent become their own generation’s most devout believers, and about 20% become the sympathizers. Because this educational system is spread evenly throughout Islam, these devout believers and sympathizers are, as pointed out earlier, spread everywhere. And the violence/fear cycle continues.<br/><br/>(Note: It is bad enough that Muslims teach this hate inside their own societies, but immigrant Muslims teach the same hate under the noses of gullible western hosts. The London transit bombings of 2005 are a perfect example. I do not believe the young Islamic killers of this incident got their motivation inside the politically correct British educational system. The same thing can be said about the recent foiled June 06 terrorist plot in Canada. They did not learn their hatred of Canada inside the Canadian school system. Additionally, numerous investigative reports on this issue confirm this issue.)<br/><br/>Unfortunately, the training of children is only the beginning of a continuous process that assures everyone is properly Islamic. Within Islamic society, additional training and continuous reinforcement of Islamic dogma is literally everywhere.<br/><br/>Let’s look at some of the common beliefs and practices that are part of the cyclical system. Keep in mind. – (1) All of these issues are hot issues that would draw attention of the unseen killers. (2) Because of the fear of the unseen killers, no one ever questions any of these issues.<br/><br/>Five times a day Muslims are called to prayer. These prayer callings are a constant reminder to the most devout that it is their responsibility to ensure the purity of Islam. It is also a constant reminder to the least devout – don’t question Islam – potential killers are everywhere. These prayer calls help keep the fear quotient high.<br/><br/>In Muslim society, because everyone is aware of the unseen killer, virtually no one ever speaks up on any issues counter to Islam. This process takes place literally on every level of society. From market place to office, from grocery store to shoe shop, from camel race to car race, from the library to the garden center no one ever speaks ill of anything Islamic.<br/><br/>Newspapers, radios and televisions in Muslim societies continuously put forth stories that convey the proper Islamic perspective. Because of a wide potential audience, media reporters risk dealing with numerous potential unseen killers for even small errors of judgment. Hence none are willing to take the risk or even the slightest questioning of Islamic issues.<br/><br/>To make matters worse, the media also takes an active role in furthering Islamic dogma. Numerous independent organizations, which monitor Islamic media, report articles inciting Muslims to violence, and instilling hatred toward non-Muslims.<br/><br/>The following is a list of items, reinforced daily, no one ever questions – out of fear.<br/><br/>The Koran is the “perfect word of God.” - This means it can’t be questioned or changed.<br/><br/>Mohammad was the perfect human. - The fact he was a murderer, mugger, rapist, child pedophile and thief is ignored. The inability of Muslims to talk about this rationality is responsible for the erratic behavior Muslims sometimes exhibit.<br/><br/>All men should strive to be like Mohammad. This leads devout Muslims to fanatical and erratic behavior.<br/><br/>Lying in the furtherance of Islam is OK. – More reason for erratic behavior.<br/><br/>Islam is the only true religion. All others are “not true.” – This belief is driven into the collective Muslim consciousness to such a high degree that even only marginal believers will agree.<br/><br/>Islam includes a form of 1984 style double talk. Islam is the freedom of God. Democracy is the tyranny of man.<br/><br/>Muslim superiority. Muslims have a rightful place ahead of others. – Believed by large percentage of Muslim population. Even believed by only marginal believers.<br/><br/>Non-Muslim inferiority. – Believed by large percentage of Muslim population.<br/>(Of course non-Muslims can change their position by converting to Islam.)<br/><br/>All the world must be Muslim. God said it – it must be true.<br/><br/>Any degradation of Islam, Mohammad, or the Koran is cause for death – at the hand of an unseen killer.<br/><br/>Islam is perfect - No questions, No changes, Can’t quit— All are warned if they do any of these—they could be killed.<br/><br/>Islam is more important than family.<br/><br/>Family members kill members who stray from Islam.<br/><br/>Family members, if they are non-believers, have nothing in common with you and should be abandoned or ignored.<br/><br/>Killing and other crimes in the name of Islam are usually never punished.<br/><br/>Trusted friends can only be Muslim. – This is one reason why Muslims don’t integrate when they emigrate to non-Muslims societies.<br/><br/>All Muslims have obligation to spread or help spread Islam.<br/><br/>If a Muslim cannot fight in jihad, Islamic law says he must aid the jihad in some way.<br/><br/>Islam is a political entity - Islam is the state.<br/><br/>This system elevates religion – Islam - to the ultimate pinnacle of Muslim consciousness.<br/><br/>And then there is the Mosque/Mullah infrastructure.<br/><br/>The mosques and mullahs have an important role to play in the cyclical system. The mosques act as constant reminder of Islam’s presence with their call to prayer five times a day. The Mullahs act as a center point to most devout believers and sympathizers. The mullahs’ position is to reinforce Islamic dogma (including the items above) and encourage devout believers to ensure it is upheld.<br/><br/>One of Islam’s strangest phenomena is as follows. These mosques become dangerous intellectual cesspools of Islam think. Only the most devout believers work their way into leadership positions. These people are the most likely to believe Islamic calls to violence. The inability to rationalize anything about Islam is at its height inside the mosques. There are numerous cases of mullahs being murdered by their own co-religionists for having not been conservative enough.<br/><br/>Let’s look at how the fear, the killers, and the rules, create a complete cycle<br/><br/>So, all of these items come together in a random fashion. The order is not important. Everyone gets indoctrinated as a child. Indoctrination continues in adults. Everyone always talks good of Islam. No one ever speaks badly of Islam. There is a continuous preaching of the flaws of the non-Muslim world. There is a consistent preaching of Islamic perfection.<br/><br/>Family members watch families. Friends watch friends. The mullahs keep stoking the cyclical system. The most deeply devout - along with the sympathizers - make sure all Muslims stay within the expected norm. Reasonable questions never get asked. Unreasonable beliefs are reinforced. And all the time an unseen army of devout killers makes sure all of this happens.<br/><br/>So here is the self-replicating cycle. The fear leads to no one questioning the system. No one questioning the system leads to de-facto acceptance on issues of Islam. Because all accept the system the, system must be right. Because believers vocalize praise for Islam, everyone only hears praise for Islam. No one ever hears anything bad about Islam. No one quits. No one questions. No one criticizes. All children become part of the system.<br/><br/>Over and over and over, like a stuck phonograph. The system does the same thing again and again. Just like a computer caught in a software endless loop. Islam, as a society, is trapped in a self-replicating cycle of violence and fear.<br/><br/><strong>Why Now?</strong><br/><br/>This cyclical system, as described, has been going on inside of Islam since the time of Mohammad. And like most systems, there is a control mechanism. The fear that drives Islam, directly responds to the amount of money available to the mullah/mosque infrastructure. Since the first oil embargo of the 70’s the amount of money pumped into Muslim oil producers has gone up hundreds of times. This has allowed the rich Muslim oil states to dump untold billions into the worldwide mullah/mosque infrastructure.<br/><br/><br/>These monies have been used for a huge expansion of mosques throughout the Muslim world. This includes the thousands of new mosques built in Western societies. These monies have also been used to train and send out conservative mullahs throughout the world to preach the most conservative form of Islam.<br/><br/>When you step on the gas pedal of a car there is a slight lag time – about 1/4 second - and the car goes faster. When oil rich Muslim states pump monies into the mullah/mosque infrastructure there is a slight lag time – about 20-30 years – and your get more of the super devout.<br/><br/>So today we are reaping the harvest of violence grown from the seeds of hate and fear planted over the past 30 years.<br/><br/><br/><strong>To My Readers</strong><br/><br/><br/>I request you comments on this theory.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
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<br/>Mubarak is gone and the rest of the Middle East is in turmoil over populous calls for reform of their societies. <br/><br/>But it is impossible to fix a problem without first properly identifying it. And unfortunately the problem is Islam. Furthermore no one is willing to talk about it.<br/><br/>Virtually every place on earth where Muslims makes up a sizable percentage of the population bad governance is the rule - the more Islam in a society, the more dysfunctional the society.<br/><br/>By every measurement Islamic societies are failing. Worldwide the figures on Illiteracy, human rights, women’s rights, minority rights, free press, and freedom to choose one’s own religion put Islamic society on the bottom of the list.<br/><br/>Muslim society is saddled with a 1,400 year old system that hasn’t been, and can’t be changed or criticized. And to make matters worse, Islam as a system trains an unseen army of jihadis to commit violence in order to perpetuate the system. <br/><br/>And to add further insult, the jihadis presence within the system makes sure no one ever speaks up about the issue of Islam. As a result most Muslims never hear anything critical of Islam. Most Muslims are essentially brainwashed by a system so large that it is hard to see. <br/><br/>And the non-Muslim world can’t seem to find the courage to say the obvious - Islam needs a reformation.</div>
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