Copyright 2015 by Paul Baumgartner

 

ISLAMIC TERRORISTS ARE STILL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS Regardless of how the Government wants to label it.

(Although this article is highly substantiated, I have not posted sources here for ease of reading. If you wish to find out the substantiation for this article, all that is needed is to copy and paste some text to a Google search, and you will find plenty of substantiation.)

WE HAVE A good idea what was passing through the minds of the Sept. 11 hijackers as they made their way to the airports. Their Al Qaeda handlers had instructed them to meditate on al-Tawba and Anfal, two lengthy suras from the Koran, the holy scripture of Islam. The passages make for harrowing reading. God promises to "cast terror into the hearts of those who are bent on denying the truth; strike, then, their necks!" (Koran 8.12). God instructs his Muslim followers to kill unbelievers, to capture them, to ambush them (Koran 9.5). Everything contributes to advancing the holy goal: "Strike terror into God's enemies, and your enemies" (Koran 8.60). Perhaps in their final moments, the hijackers took refuge in these words, in which God lauds acts of terror and massacre.

Faithful Muslims believe that the Koran is the inspired word of God, delivered verbatim through the prophet Mohammed.

Arguements have been made that the "True Muslims" do not believe in terrorism, accept all religions, believe in Jesus too, and believe in the verses about peace and love in their holy books.

However, the violent verses ARE there.

To reconcile this and other contradictions, Islamic clerics will use the pricipal of abrogation. Naskh is the Arabic word for abrogation. Naskh employs the logic of chronology and progressive revelation.
The more recent statements are the more accurate according to this logic.

Now, there are many verses in the Islamic Holy Books that are about peace and many verses about fighting.  Muhammed was a warlord and emperor after all. Let's take a shortcut to this whole discussion and just fast forward to the end of Muhammed's life, which Quran 9 is all from.

Quran 9:
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/Quran/9/index.htm

Here, we find that Muhammed gives an opened ended command to continually fight all others until all others are in submission:

9:29 "Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low."Jews and Christians are specifically identified as people that do not believe in Allah:

9:30 "And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah. That is their saying with their mouths. They imitate the saying of those who disbelieved of old. Allah (Himself) fighteth against them. How perverse are they!"

Muhammed specifically commands that Judgement on all those that do not believe in Allah are to receive judgement at the hands of the Muslims:

9:52 "Say: Can ye await for us aught save one of two good things (death or victory in Allah's way) ? while we await for you that Allah will afflict you with a doom from Him or at our hands. Await then! Lo! We are awaiting with you."

Now, one thing that we have found consistent with 90% of the terrorism in the world is that they are Muslims and 99% of the time, the terrorist quoted or used Islamic Holy texts to justify or explain what he did or what he was about to do before the terrorist event was committed.

February 1998 - The declaration from the 'World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and Crusaders', announced the ambition of the group that later became known as Al-Qaeda to 'kill the Americans and their allies—civilians and military.' The declaration, which is now seen as one of the more important public messages from the Al-Qaeda leadership, began by quoting Sura At-Taubah (9): 5, urging Muslims to recognise their duty to 'slay the idolaters' wherever they were found.

Moulana Mohammed Masood Azhar, the leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan, based much of his book - The Virtues of Jihad - on the importance of fighting as set forth in the Qur'an. 'There is consensus of opinion', Azhar argued, 'amongst researchers of the Quran, that no other particular action has been stated in such great detail as Jihad.'[19] According to his analysis, the term jihad-fi-sabilillah ('Jihad in the path of Allah') was referred to in the Qur'an 26 times, and qital (fighting) 79 times.

August 1998 - Supporters of Shariah newsletter, coded for this article, which was published shortly after Al-Qaeda's bombings of two US embassies in East Africa in August 1998. The newsletter, edited by Abu Hamza al-Masri's group at Finsbury Park Mosque in North London, defined the act as 'Islamic (obligatory) terrorism', and therefore something that should be encouraged. In support of their argument, the authors quoted Al-Anfal: 60.In the works of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri and others. For Suri, the verse denoted the distinction of 'praiseworthy terrorism', as the act of violence committed in the service of God, since it commanded believers to 'strike terror' against enemies of Islam. Al-Anfal: 60, therefore, formed the cornerstone of his definition of irhab mahmud, 'terrorism by the righteous who have been unjustly treated.'

The late Abdullah Azzam, a guiding figure of contemporary jihadists and inspiration to Osama bin Laden, sought to capture the chronological development of the concept of jihad and fighting in the Qur'an in his book Defence of Muslim Lands. Here he identified the major stages through which 'the order to fight was revealed.' First, was the demand of staying true to the faith and moving away from polytheism (explained in Al-Hijr (15): 94). Second, was the need to invite nonbelievers to Islam (An-Nahl (16): 125). If this was refused they could be fought, according to Azzam's interpretation of Al-Hajj (22): 39. Fighting defensive war was legitimised according to Al-Baqarah (2): 191, aggressively after the sacred month had passed, according to At-Taubah (9): 5 and, finally, the right 'to fight all out in general' was encouraged, according to Azzam, in to Al-Baqarah (2): 190: 'And fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, but transgress not the limits. Truly Allah likes not the transgressors.'

Ayman Al-Zawahiri, for instance, regularly relies in his messages and interviews on the verse Al-Ma'idah (5): 51: "O believers, do not hold Jews and Christians as your allies. They are allies of one another; and anyone who makes them his friends is surely one of them." For Al-Zawahiri, this is the foundational principle all Muslims should adhere to, in order to respect the division of Al-Wala wa-l-Bara (loyalty and disavowal – the concept of exclusion of enemies and cohesion of the righteous Ummah).

1811: The Marines first saw action abroad against the Barbary states who informed Thomas Jefferson and John Adams that they were entitled to attack American ships and enslave American sailors because, “it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

Feb. 7, 2013 – Yusuf Ibrahim, 28, shot two Coptic Christians to death and beheaded them in Buena Vista, New Jersey. He also removed their hands before burying their bodies in the backyard of an abandoned house. He quoted Quran 8:12, “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!”

Sept. 25, 2014 – Alton Nolen is accused of beheading a woman in Moore, Oklahoma. Co-workers reported that Nolen had been trying to convert them to Islam. Nolen reportedly used “some Arabic terms” during his attack and had an interest in beheadings. Nolen told a judge, “I’m Muslim. My question is, do you have any Muslims that can represent me as a Muslim?”

December 2, 2014: Al-Shabaab Vows to Be ‘Ruthless Against Disbelievers’ Sheikh Rage said: “We are uncompromising in our beliefs, relentless in our pursuit, ruthless against the disbelievers…” “Muhammad is Allah’s apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another.” — Qur’an 48:29

April 3 2015: Muslim terrorists attack school students.
The official death toll of 147 was expected to rise in the coming days, with another 79 injured, some critically. Nearly 600 students managed to escape. The Terrorists ordered Kenyan students to recite the Koran and shot or beheaded them if they couldn't.

May 3, 2015 – In Garland, Texas, Pamela Geller, along with her group the American Freedom Defense Initiative, hosted a “Draw Muhammad” event. Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi of Phoenix responded to a call to “avenge the prophet” and traveled to Garland, where they were shot and killed by a security guard after opening fire in an apparent attempt to get into the building. The guard was wounded in the attack. Islamic radicals have since called for Geller’s head, and vow to kill anyone who “blasphemes” Muhammad.

May 17, 2015 - In an address on the Muslim Brotherhood TV channel Al-Sharq, broadcasting from Turkey, former Egyptian MP Dr. Atey Adlan said that the Quran teaches the Muslims how to fight and tells them to ‘strike [the infidels] on their necks, and chop off all their fingers.’”

June 2015 - ISIS militant group kidnapped at least 88 Eritrean refugees in Libya after abducting them from a human trafficking caravan. The group reportedly stopped the caravan and asked those inside the trucks to recite parts of the Quran and those who couldn't were abducted.

June 26, 2015:  Abu Yahya Qayrawani was responsible for the attacks on a tunisian beach killing 38 and injuring 40, while telling muslims to leave.

July 14, 2015: Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez shot and killed 5 Marines and wounded another at military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. Hours before the Tennessee shooting on Thursday that killed five US servicemen, the suspected gunman texted his close friend a link to a long Islamic verse that included the line: “Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him.” (40 Hadith Nawawi 38)

July 14, 2015 "Muslims in Sweden will become more and more degraded ... so instead of putting on a T-shirt and going to the most hated place for Allah just to stand there and do dawah [missionize], you should go there with a bomb instead. ... Now is the time to show who the earth belongs to!!! ... Save yourself from narr [hellfire] by killing a kafir." — Mikael Skråmo, Swedish convert to Islam.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6144/swedish-jihadi

July 27, 2015: Mosul, Iraq: Children are taken in by militants who seek to re-educate them. They are then forced to convert to Islam and, eventually, become extremist fighters.
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/middle-east-africa/in-school-kids-are-taught-behead-the-doll/

July 31, 2015: Yazidi boy, four, is forced to join ISIS terror camp to learn Sharia Law, the Koran and given sword to behead his own MOTHER

August 2, 2015: Jihadist camps made up of nearly 1,500 children as young as nine have been uncovered in central Africa, according to reports received by a leading Catholic charity at work in the region.

Sources close to Aid to the Church in Need - who cannot be named for security reasons - stated that poverty-stricken youngsters are being lured off the streets of the Democratic Republic of Congo and taken to remote camps where they are being brutalised and indoctrinated by Islamist militia. Boys, spread across at least three camps in the Ruwenzori Mountains of eastern DRC, were sighted in camouflage kit doing military exercises watched over by soldiers with guns. The reports describe up to 60 girls huddled together in the camps wearing burkhas, being prepared for marriage to Islamic fighters. It is alleged that some members of the Mission of the United Nations Organisation for the Stabilization of DR Congo are fundamentalist Muslims from Pakistan who in their spare time in the

African country are setting up QURANIC schools and working on mosque construction sites.
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=27981

Many Muslim commentators in the Western world encourage blindness; they declare that the Islamic State is not Muslim. The flag of the Islamic State bears the shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith. The Quran used, and cited constantly, by the Islamic State is the Quran used and cited by all Muslims, all over the world. Muslim organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Fiqh Council of North America, have published texts claiming to "refute" the Islamic State's Islamic legitimacy, however, none of those texts asserts that the Islamic State does not respect Islamic principles.

These terrorist events ARE clearly coming out of Islam.  

One reason that these come out of Islam is because of the compulsion in Islam.  Some people may quote Quran 2:256: “There is no compulsion in religion." However, let's read the whole verse and the verse afterwards:

2:256: “There is no compulsion in religion. The right direction is henceforth distinct from error. And he who rejecteth false deities and believeth in Allah hath grasped a firm handhold which will never break. Allah is Hearer, Knower.”
2:257: “Allah is the protecting guardian of those who believe. He bringeth them out of darkness into light. As for those who disbelieve, their patrons are false deities. They bring them out of light into darkness. Such are the rightful owners of the Fire [of Hell]. They will abide therein [forever].”

In order words there sure is compulsion in Islam. It is not a compulsion where everyone is forced to worship Islamic, rather they are forced to choose Islam or die.

Another verse to confirm this is as follows: Quran 18:29: “Say: (It is) the truth from the Lord of you (all). Then whosoever will, let him believe, and whosoever will, let him disbelieve. Lo! We have prepared for disbelievers Fire. Its tent encloseth them. If they ask for showers, they will be showered with water like to molten lead which burneth the faces. Calamitous the drink and ill the resting-place!”

I have already quoted  Quran 9:52 "Say: Can ye await for us aught save one of two good things (death or victory in Allah's way) ? while we await for you that Allah will afflict you with a doom from Him or at our hands. Await then! Lo! We are awaiting with you."

In other words, the moslems believe as Muhammed taught that They have the task of enforcing the acceptance of Islam with the punishment of death for not accepting Islam.

Most countries that have a majority of Muslims have a law that only Islam is an approved religion, and that if you leave Islam, the punishment is death.  People are born into these countries with no choice, but to be a Muslim.  Others are told that it is the faith that you must be Muslim or that death and doom awaits you.

Another reason they come out of Islam is because of the lack of approved doctrines and texts. There are at least 73 sects or schools of Islam.
https://www.alislam.org/library/73divisions/73-09.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches
http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?53514-73-Sects-of-Islam

Any student of Islam is welcome to study the books of Islam and start his own sect. It only needs to be based on their writings about the life and sayings of the prophet Muhammed.

Unlike Christianity, Islam has never had their Council of Nicea. At the council of Nicea, the Christians debated and came to consensus as to what their official doctrines would be. Christians never had a problem about whether they should forcibly conquer the world to spread its religion. Jesus commanded his followers to just preach the gospel in the whole world.

This problem with Islamic Terrorism is uniquely Islamic. Islam owns this problem. Islam must fix this problem. Here is what needs to be done to fix Islam:

1) Islam has never had its Council of Nicea to define its doctrines.  Islam needs a unified doctrine. There needs to be a doctrine that is against violence. Include interpretation of the violent verses as in a historical context that does not exist anymore - take those verses out of your holy books if you have to.  In the council of Nicea, Christians did not accept every writing at their council. This is a fails-safe.  You might want too erase some history about your prophet too in order to make him non-violent.

2) All Islamic countries need to implement Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Equality of all people, abolish slavery, abolish child marriage, have a minimum age for marriage, have equal rights for women in the family and in all areas of society. Outlaw forced marriage. Outlaw polygamy.  Outlaw bestiality. Outlaw forced religion. Forced religion can never be true & that is what you have in your Islamic countries right now.  People need to love God & do good from their heart.  How they do that has to be their choice.  

3) Rich Islamic countries need to help out the poor Islamic countries.  Feed your own poor and let your own muslims that need to immigrate go to your rich muslim countries and receive help there.  There
needs to be reasonable acceptance of other Islamic variations that cannot be negotiated at your council. There has to be reasonable allowance of difference. Learn to accept each other and take turns if you have to.

Now, until such time that Islam fixes itself, the other 6 billion people in the world will undoubtedly be living with the understanding that every Muslim is their mortal enemy.