After a rather heated lengthy discussion about the Israel/Gaza situation last Friday I had with one of the most leftist liberals you could ever come across (besides his political persuasion he's a sound guy) I spent the weekend downloading the information from my head into a collective onslaught on leftist views on terrorism in general and on Israel.
A number of points were made during the discussion but the two I decided to take to pieces was the premise that (a) Islamic terrorism doesn't exist, and (b) no such Muslim Brotherhood exists with a desire to take over the world.
Whilst it did the trick for the conversation at hand it could easily be expanded into a compendium of rational thought for the purpose of combatting leftist thought, hence why I am posting it here in the hope that it may help someone else and so I can keep building on it.
There is a lot of sarcasm built into the detail - that's just my way.
Enjoy....
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Statement: Islamic terrorism doesn’t exist.
Why let the facts get in the way of the truth? This statement is based on the notion that Islam is a religion of peace and couldn’t possibly provide motivation for people to commit mass murder. This can quite easily be proven false, not only by the obvious attacks we’ve seen in this country and around the world citing grievances for transgressions against Muslims, but also by the provision of actual verses from the Koran that mandate such activity and by taking a little look at Islamic doctrine.
First of all and probably most obviously, the term Jihad relates to a Holy War.
Jihad can mean both an inner struggle within oneself or an external physical struggle which is the more well known of the two. Chronologically, the verses of the Koran from Mohammed’s experiences in Mecca were peaceful and the focus of Jihad was mainly to do with non-violent Jihad and only resorting to violence in self defence. Mohammed’s later experiences in Medina increasingly toward fighting or warfare instead of self defence Jihad. The Koran is unique among sacred scriptures in that it uses a doctrine of abrogation according to which later pronouncements of the Prophet abrogate i.e. declare null and void, his earlier pronouncements.
A relevant example, there are 125 verses that call for tolerance and patience which have been cancelled and replaced by Sura 9:5: “Fight the pagans [Jews, Christians] wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war” and Sura 9:33 “For those who do not submit to Allah their punishment is…execution or crucifixion (you might be interested to know that Hamas legalised crucifixion over the Christmas period), or the cutting off hands and feet, from the opposite sides, or exile from the land.”
So, using the Islamic doctrine of abrogation, the peaceful verses are declared null and void by the downright violent verses. The above is just a small example.
Anyway, back to Jihad.
In Islam, a person who dies fighting Jihad is a shahid (Martyr) and is assured a place in Janna (Paradise) where they will have 72 virgins, rivers of wine and fresh fruit called the Houris. The basis of this concept was Mohammed’s words prior to the battle of Badr where he stated:
“I swear by the one in who hand Mohammed’s soul is, any man who fights them today is killed while he is patient in the ordeal and seeks the pleasure of Allah, going forward and not backing off, Allah will enter him into paradise.”
Both defensive and offensive Jihad are prescribed in different scenarios. Defensive Jihad in Islamic traditional law, holds that when Muslims are attacked then it becomes obligatory for all Muslim men of military conscription age, within a certain radius of the attack, to take up arms against the attackers.
Offensive Jihad is the waging of wars of aggression and conquest against non-Muslims in order to bring them and their territories under Islamic rule.
Mohammed commanded the Muslims to convert the whole world to Islam on pain of death. Those that are trying to achieve this aren’t following a radical interpretation of the Koran, they are simply following Mohammed’s instructions to the letter.
Yes there are ‘moderate’ Muslims who don’t subscribe to the later Medinan Suras in the Koran instead preferring the peaceful Meccan Suras however in doing so are actually not following Mohammed’s explicit instructions which itself is forbidden as the Koran is supposedly the unalterable word of Allah. If the penny hasn’t dropped yet, this is why ‘extremist’ Islamic terrorists accuse ‘moderate’ Muslims of apostasy (leaving the faith) as they are not following the instructions of Mohammed – in a quirky twist of fate, look at what’s in the papers today (18/01/09 – Muslim Civil Servant suspended over ‘killing British troops is justified’ blog - he was consider ‘Moderate’). Whilst the West has labelled them ‘extremist’ Muslims, accordingly to the Koran, they are actually ‘true’ Muslims.
MPs, the media, apologists, liberals, all fall over themselves to enforce self-censorship (such as the Mohammed cartoons) in order to prevent upsetting and this radicalisation of Muslims in blissful ignorance that it’s Islam that allows radicalisation of Muslims, we are the convenient justification.
Now we’ve established that the Koran does actually mandate the killing of non-Muslims by Muslims who are attempting to bring the world under Islamic rule, let’s look at the motivations behind some well known recent terrorist attacks.
Mumbai (26/01/08) – perpetrated by Lashkar-e-Taiba who are the largest and most active terrorist organisations in South Asia that want to….wait for it…introduce an Islamic state in South Asia, Russia, and China. Note the MO – military assault on an urban area, main focus being Nariman House (Jewish Centre). The lone surviving terrorist told police they wanted to send a message to Jews (again, a lesser known subject in the Koran, hatred of Jews and Christians that has risen to the surface in some of the Pro-Palestinian rallies – links are provided further on) across the world by attacking the ultra orthodox synagogue.
London (07/07/05) – perpetrated by British Muslims, the leader of which (Mohammad Sidique Khan) received training in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and linked with terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah and Al Qaeda that want to…wait for it…create a new Islamic caliphate and end foreign influence in Muslim countries.
Bali (12/10/2002) – perpetrated by Jemaah Islamiyah – their now familiar motive described above.
New York (11/09/01) – perpetrated by 19 Muslims on behalf of Al Qaeda, justification for the attack was provided by Osama Bin Laden in his 1998 fatwa issued against the United States and its allies – civilians and military – urging all Muslims to “…fight [the Pagans] until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah”
These are but three of a long list of terrorist attacks motivated by the desire to (1) establish a global Islamic caliphate, and (2) kill non-Muslims (particularly Jews) who are not friends of Islam (as stated in Koran 5:51, “O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them.”) – this is mild compared to later verses!
So, as you can see, denial of the existence of Islamic terrorism given the spiritual justification in the Koran along with the actual events perpetrated by groups of individuals who subscribe to them is a factually flawed standpoint.
But now for a new revelation that no doubt you will be equally unaware of – soft Jihad, otherwise known as cultural subversion/invasion. Quite frankly, this is the most frightening form of Jihad as it’s presence can be seen all around us if you know what to look for – which you will do after you’ve read this.
I’ve already proven that the establishment of an Islamic caliphate is par for the course in ‘true’ Islam. Some groups are attempting to achieve this by committing acts of terrorism however others are attempting this by a far less obvious but far more effective method.
Another point you deny is the existence of the Muslim Brotherhood which now relates to the information I’m about to give. Again, I shall prove that your statement is factually flawed.
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna whose mission statement reads:
“Allah is our objective. The prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
The Muslim Brotherhood is widely accepted as being the world’s oldest and largest Islamist group (note: Islamist is a term to describe a group who implement the law of the book (Koran), aka Sharia law, in its purest form where there is no separation between state and religion i.e. Islam is the law).
One of the primary goals of the Muslim Brotherhood is…wait for it…reinstatement of the Islamic caliphate and reunite the “dar el Islam” (House of Islam) and its network includes the a terrorist group currently in action in Gaza, Hamas (founded by Shiekh Ahmed Yassin in 1987 as an offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood).
Following the 9/11 attacks in New York and the ensuing crackdown on terrorist finances, a raid was carried out by Swiss law enforcement on the palatial home of Youssef Nada – director of the Al-Taqwa Bank of Lugano – due to his suspected money laundering activities. During the search a 12 page document was found, written in Arabic dated December 1, 1982, which outlines a 12-point strategy to….wait for it…establish an Islamic government on earth, prepared by scholars associated with the Muslim brotherhood.
The strategy within the document (now referred to as ‘The Project’) represents a flexible, multi-phased, long-term approach to the cultural invasion of the West calling for the utilisation of various tactics ranging from immigration, infiltration, surveillance, propaganda, protest (I’ll come back to this point later too), deception, political legitimacy and (from the horses mouth), terrorism. The finer points of the plan are as follows and with recent events in mind, make for chilling reading (I’ve provided hyperlinks to relevant recent events for some of the points below):
1. Networking and coordinating actions between likeminded Islamist organizations;
2. Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”;
- Radical links of UK’s ‘Moderate’ Muslim group
- Hot off the press, 18/01/09 – Muslim Civil Servant suspended over ‘killing British troops is justified’ blog.
3. Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals;
4. Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law;
5. Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist powerbase in the West or provoke a lash back against Muslims;
6. Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers;
- 08/08/05 – Islamic Banks – A novelty no longer
- 12/05/08 – Citigroup expands Islamic offering
- 11/12/08 – Hugging Sharia finance at the Fed
- 30/12/08 – Bailing out Sharia
- 17/01/09 – Gordon Brown calls for London to become the international centre of Islamic finance
7. Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data storage capabilities;
8. Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”;
- Permalink to the BBC
9. Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements;
- MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Committee)
- CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations)
- MCB (Muslim Council of Britain) – list of various associate organisations
- Letter from various Muslim organisations to Gordon Brown – “The Government is responsible for the country and its foreign policy. I don’t want something to happen here.”
10. Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world;
11. Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;
12. Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant;
- Association of Muslim Schools
- Islamic Relief
13. Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions;
- Anjem Choudary
- Sadiq Khan – Labour MP
14. Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam;
15. Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual implementation;
- Sharia Law Courts in the UK
16. Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the development of processes for conflict resolution;
17. Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals;
Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West;
Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame of mind”;
- 04/01/09 – Gaza demonstrations end in violence
18. Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;
19. Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims- I will come back to this later but keep it in mind as it will become crucial.
20. Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination;
- Hamas’s charter states, “Israel will rise and remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors.”
- Article 7 of Hamas’s charters goes on, “The day of judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharqad tree would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.”
21. Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;
- See Hamas charter above
- 09/01/09 – Jew hatred on display following Gaza demonstrations (nice roundup of anti-semetic occurances around the world), some quick references:
- Thanks to George Galloway, attacks against Starbucks in London as their CEO is Jewish
- “Back to the ovens” chanted by Pro-Palestinian protestors in Ft Lauderdale, Florida
- “Jews to the Gas” chanted by…wait for it…Pro-Palestinian protesters in the Netherlands
- Man wearing Jewish symbol stabbed near Paris
22. Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;
- Black September
- Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)
- Hamas
- Hizbollah
- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
- Palestine Liberation Front
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
23. Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement;
24. Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world;
- Terrorist financing
- Holy Land Foundation, additional link
- Jihad comes to Wall Street
So as you can see denial of the existence of the Muslim Brotherhood when considered with historical fact and the clearly visible progress they have made towards their plan is another factually flawed standpoint.
This brings us nicely to the recent war in Gaza and hopefully consideration (on your part) of a different viewpoint on the matter.
First, let’s take a look at some history. Jews have inhabited the land of Israel since pre-biblical times (approx 1300 BCE). In a bid to break the bond of the Jewish people to the land of Israel the Roman emperor Hadrian invented the term ‘Palestina’ after the Phillistines, the longtime enemy of the Jews. His theory was that the renaming of the land after their archenemy would break this bond. Interestingly, the name Phillistine in Hebrew is ‘plishtim’, which comes from the Hebrew verb ‘polshim’ (foreign invaders) which is ironic given that they are now referred to as invaders or occupiers of a land they have inhabited for thousands of years!
Anyway, back to the history. There were no Muslims in this region until the 8th Century AD expansion of the first caliphate (Note: expansion by forced conversion although they were given three options – convert, accept a second class citizen status of Dhimmi and pay tax to the Muslims, or die, although this was the peaceful version then abrogated by Koran 9:29, “Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.”).
From first caliphate to Ottoman empire Muslims had 1300 years to establish a state of Palestine but they didn’t.
Following the fall of the Muslim Ottoman empire during WW1 the Palestinian mandate was given to the British to administer. The Balfour agreement in 1917 intimated of the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine that immediately met Arab opposition. The British mandate was then divided as follows, 80% was given to the Arabs thus Jordan was born. The remaining 20% was divided equally between Arabs and Jews. So out of the 100% of the mandate, 10% of the land was given to the Jews. Looking at the Middle East as a whole, Israel accounts for one sixth of one percent of the land, not exactly a monopoly is it?
The persecution of European Jews at the hands of Hitler led to an influx of Jews into Israel, so much so that the British started to impose quotas – even though no other country would accept them. Following aggression from both Arabs and Jews, the British withdrew its administration and Israel become a official state in 1948 only to be immediately attacked by Arab armies and a quote from Hassan al-Banna (Muslim Brotherhood) outlines their motivation, “If the Jewish state becomes a fact, the Arabs will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea”.
1 in every 100 Jews in Israel were killed during the Arab-Israeli war but the Arabs failed in their objective.
The Jews then set about developing the land that was given to them (60% of it was arid desert) using the billions of dollars of UN aid money – money that was also available to the Arabs.
One salient point regarding the creation of Israel is that it was meant to be the one place on Earth Jews can live together and be afforded the right of self protection from persecution dealt out to them over and again since time immemorial, not least Hitler’s attempt to wipe them from the face of the Earth when they made a promise to themselves of ‘never again’.
Summarising the events/wars that followed would be almost impossible however I think a fair approximation of the current status is that (1) Israel exists on land that has always been home to the Jews since biblical times, is a recognised Jewish statehood under international law, and has repeatedly attacked by Arab nations since it’s creation, and (2) Palestinian Arabs believe Israel is occupying Muslim land, do not recognise it as an official state, have been displaced by Israeli settlement activity, subjected to Israeli and Palestinian Authority control (the former imposing an oppressive security regimen on it’s people), and want their land back along with the displaced refugees following the 1948 and 1967 wars and are using terrorist tactics to undermine Israel’s status as a method of achieving this. Both sides have used force to achieve their goals and both sides have suffered casualties as a result. Sound fair?
Fair or not, let’s ask a question - who is responsible for the suffering of the Palestinian people? Rather than the mainstream media’s position on this which would land the responsibility directly on Israel’s shoulders, let’s consider all the information I’ve given above to see if there isn’t a bigger picture at work.
Let’s take a closer look at point 19 of the above list from ‘The Project’ - “Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims”. This could almost imply that the cause of the Palestinians is to be deliberately perpetuated doesn’t it? Surely this can’t be so?
How revealing then that during an interview given by Zuhair Mohsen (Palestinian leader of the Syria controlled as-Sa’iqa faction of the PLO) to the Dutch paper Trouw in March 1977, he said the following:
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. Only for our political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.”Now that is interesting.
What’s also interesting is the amount of international aid that the Palestinians receive as a sweetener to the continuing peace process. It’s a fact that Palestinians receive the highest level of international aid than anywhere else on the planet. Yet the Palestinian people are living in abject poverty. Surely their leaders aren’t squandering the money and spending on themselves whilst their people starve are they? Surely they aren’t perpetuating the situation for financial gain are they?
It’s almost as if the Palestinian people are being starved and exposed to extreme security conditions deliberately to perpetuate the myth that Israel are responsible for their plight thus bringing down more international pressure on them to relinquish land conquered legitimately after being attacked in the hope of progress that always seems just out of reach (such as Sinai, Southern Lebanon, Golan Heights, and Gaza) which will continue and continue until the time that people in the West and Israel’s allies start to believe the myth so much that Israel’s very existence is called into question and brings closer the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas’s stated objective of the destruction of Israel and those in it. In the meantime, the Palestinian Authority ask for more and more international aid dollars because of their people’s plight at the hands of Israel, most of which goes nowhere near the Palestinian people.
What was it Joseph Goebbels said? Oh yes, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
This brings us nicely to point 20 of the ‘The Project’ – “Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination”
So this is a roundabout way of saying that the liberation of Israel is just the first stage of…wait for it…the establishment of a Global Islamic caliphate. Now that sounds familiar, why do they want to do that again? Oh yes, because the founder of Islam, Mohammed commanded the Muslims to convert the whole world to Islam on pain of death.
Who would have thought that it all fits together like that!
Islam isn’t as peaceful as the media likes to make out, the prophet of said religion commands his followers to covert the whole world to Islam, Muslim groups exist globally who are following his command to the letter, Israel is the prime target for the cause but once the job is done, the rest of the world will follow.
Still, we don’t have to worry about these terrorists getting a nuclear bomb do we because that could be disastrous for us all? No, wait a minute, I forgot about the ‘True’ Islamist leader of Iran who is blatantly open about his desire for the destruction of Israel and has a nuclear weapons programme on the go.
Damn.
So, the next time you see people burning the flag of your country, they are demonstrating their intentions to destroy the values that the flag stands for, it's a show of hatred, nothing more, nothing less. Physically it might just be a bit of cloth but symbolically it's our country. By burning the flag, they have identified themselves as the enemy, not a friend. 
