Light Brings Salt
Volume 2, Issue 44 November 21, 2004
Iron Range Bible
Church
Dedicated to the Systematic Exposition of the Word of God
Islam's Bogus Peace
Dave Hunt
Islam, amazingly lauded as a religion of peace since September
11, 2001,
is built on violence. Its founder, Muhammad, established this religion by
plundering villages and rich caravans, robbing, killing, or enslaving
thousands. The city known as Medina today (where Muhammad as buried)
was originally the Jewish village of Yathrib. Muhammad slaughtered every male
inhabitant, enslaved the women and children, and killed every Jew, in Arabia except for those who escaped. All
of Arabia was forced by the sword to
confess, “La ilaha
il’ Allah, Muhammadan Rasoulu Allah
[There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah].”
When Muhammad died in A.D. 632, much of Arabia tried to abandon Islam. Muhammad
had said, “Whoever relinquishes his faith, kill him!” So his successor, Abu Bakr, and his men killed tens of thousands of Arabs in the
Wars of Apostasy, forcing Arabia back into Islam. Under sharia (Islamic law), the death penalty for apostasy is
still enforced, as in Chop Chop Square in Rivadh, Saudi
Arabia.
Islam
was spread by the sword from France
to China.
For centuries, not only were millions of non-Muslims killed or enslaved, but
also tens of thousands of Muslims were killed by fellow Muslims. Historian Will
Durant called the take-over of India
“the
bloodiest story in history.” More Hindus were slaughtered by Muslims than Jews were killed
by Nazis. In our day, Iran
fought Iraq
for eight years, with more deaths than occurred during World War 1; Iraq
plundered Kuwait
and would have taken the entire Gulf region had we “pagans” not intervened;
in the last twelve years, one hundred thousand Muslims have been killed by
fellow Muslims in Algeria.
Similarly, Muslim factions in Afghanistan
fight and kill one another, etc.
All
nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Muslims, fifteen from Saudi
Arabia. I had prayed for
years that God would expose
the horrifying truth about Islam and its god, Allah, to the world. What could be more
revealing than this heinous slaughter of three thousand innocent civilians-a loss considerably
greater than that suffered at Pearl Harbor.
War was swiftly declared against Japan.
This time, war was declared against “terrorism” and the real enemy exonerated. U.
S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell insists, “Leave
Islam out of this-Islam is a peaceful religion!”
Abandoned rental cars and apartments
yielded abundant proof that the mass murders had been committed in the name of
Allah to advance Islam worldwide. Did a few fanatics “hijack Islam,” as President
George W. Bush claimed? No, this is Islam! Many more than on 9/11 had already
been killed to the glory of Allah in Indonesia and Nigeria; at least two
million have been killed
in Sudan since Khartoum adopted sharia
in 1993, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands murdered by Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization in
the name of Allah, following the example and teaching of Muhammad.
Aiding the Enemy
Incredibly,
9/11 made Muslims the most popular speakers on radio, TV, and in schools across America,- and tens of thousands of
Americans converted to Islam! Western media fawned over Muslim schoolgirls and
women suffering "discrimination" because of their peculiar dress, and
aired the complaints of Muslim leaders about hostility toward
Islam. Yet no mention was made of the millions being killed and maimed by
Muslims; the active slave market in the Muslim world; the Muslims being killed
who convert to any other religion; the lack of freedom of speech or of the
press, etc.; or the fact that no Jew may enter Saudi Arabia, where only Muslims can be citizens and
no non-Muslim place of worship may be built.
Farcical
statements have become daily fare. ABC News President David Westin told
students at Columbia
University
that objectivity forbade his judging the propriety of flying an occupied jet
into the Pentagon! Yet the media condemns Israel
for defending itself. Israel’s assassination of Hamas leaders was
denounced-but-not the Hamas trained suicide bombers sent into Israel to murder innocent women and
children.
The very morning of 9/11, shortly
before the hijackers struck, an editorial in Al Hayat Al Jadida,
Arafat’s official news-paper, declared, “The suicide bombers are the salt of
the earth, the engines of history . . . the most honorable among us.” This
“honorable” practice is inspired by Muhammad’s promise to shahadas who die in jihad (never
mind that they are murderers, not martyrs) of a hedonistic paradise of rivers
of wine, abundant delicacies, and nonstop sex with perpetual virgins.
In January 2004, Ream Selah el-Rayashi, mother of two, blew herself up, along with
innocent Jews, at a check-point between Gaza and Israel. Accused of adultery, she was
given the choice of death by stoning or becoming a jihad “martyr.” And the man? In Islam, only the woman suffers. Unsuspecting
11-year-old Abdullah Quran was promised “a lot of
money” to take a “package” into Israel in his school knapsack. He did
not know it was a ten-kilo bomb rigged to be set off by a cell phone. As
Israelis who stopped him worked to defuse the bomb, the trigger was dialed; but
a technical failure saved the life of the child and those around him. The God
of the Bible gave His Son to die for us to pay the penalty for our sins; Allah
requires Muslims to give their sons to die for him.
Incredibly, Benazir Bhutto, former prime
minister of Pakistan, publicly insistent that
"those who would use violence and terror in the name of Islam are heretics
and hypocrites . . .Islam is committed to tolerance
and equality. . .democracy." In reality the Qur'an commands Muslims, "Make no
friendship with a Christian or a Jew" (Surah 5:51, 55-64; "declare
war" on them (Surah
9:29-30.
With his dying breath, Muhammad said,
"May Allah curse the Christians and the Jews (Bukhari
I:427)."
Strategy of Deceit
Democracy? There never was democracy in a Muslim country-nor
could there be. What madness gives credence to the lie, “Islam is peace”? “Peace” in Islam is not what the West hopes.
Arafat said, “Peace for us is the destruction of Israel.” Allah commanded Muhammad and
all Muslims to wage jihad to force Islam on the entire world. The precedent for
Islamic “peace” was set in 628 when Muhammad, too weak to attack Mecca agreed to a ten-year ceasefire (hudnah) This treaty of Hudaybiya
established the irrevocable law of war and peace in Islam. Neither Arafat nor
any other Muslim has the authority to change that law.
The
best Israel
can hope for with the “Palestinians” is a temporary hudna. By very
definition, a “road
map to peace”
between Muslims and Israel
is impossible. Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin,
the UN, and European Union are knowingly ignoring the truth. By the law of
Islam, a hudna
must be broken as soon as Muslim forces are strong enough-just as Muhammad did
after two years, when
he had gathered ten thousand jihad warriors and took over Mecca.
After
Arafat signed the 1993 Oslo Accords, in fear for his life (Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was murdered for
making “peace”), he quickly
assured Muslims, “This
agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement...
signed between our
prophet Muhammad and Quraish [tribe of Mecca].”
Allah of the Kaaba
The
first hudna
reveals the truth about Islam and Allah. Why did Muhammad attempt to lead some followers
(the first Muslims ever) into Mecca
in 628? To join thousands of pagan Arabs in the traditional hajj-the annual
pilgrimage to the Kaaba, It was an idol temple where
Allah was the chief among some 360 gods.
Roman Catholic as well as many Protestant leaders insist
that Allah is just another name for the God of the Bible. The pope kisses the Qur’an,
a book that both denies Christ’s deity and says He did not die for our sins.
Arabic translations of the Bible use Allah for “God” on Islam’s Bogus Peace
from page 23 the pretext that there is no generic term for God in Arabic. In fact, ilah is the
generic term, while Allah (a
contraction of al-ilah, meaning, “the god”)
was the name of the Kaaba’s chief god that the Meccans
had worshiped for centuries. Muhammad’s father was named Abdullah, meaning “the
slave of Allah.”
Under the treaty of Hudaybiya, Muhammad and
his Muslim followers were allowed to enter Mecca the following year, 629, joining
pagan Arabs in the hajj. So the
founder of Islam, a religion that condemns idolatry, led his new Muslim
followers to join in the same idolatrous ceremonies that their pagan ancestors
had practiced for centuries.
The
rituals, in which Muhammad led forty thousand of his followers shortly before
his death, included purification rites outside Mecca before approaching the Kaaba, kissing the dark stone embedded in its eastern
corner, and reverently touching the sacred stone in the Yamani
corner on each of seven circuits around this idol temple. They further included climbing
Mt. As-Safa and, from there, running back and
forth seven times to the summit of Al-Marwah (Surah 2:158); and going to Wadi
Mina to throw seven stones
each at three pillars representing Satan, etc. Muhammad
retained in Islam all
of these superstitions involving the hajj.
After
Muhammad broke the hudna
and took over Mecca
in 630, he briefly allowed non-Muslims access to the Kaaba
(from which he had removed the idols) to perform, along with the Muslims, all
of the traditional rituals of the hajj. Then he gave the pagans four months to
convert to Islam or lose their heads. Thereafter, only Muslims could enter Mecca,
as is true today.
So non-Muslim Arabs were no longer allowed to approach the Kaaba to practice the rituals associated with the hajj, though they and their ancestors
had done so for centuries. Islam simply took over
the Kaaba and claimed its idolatrous rites as its own. The Hadith
(sayings and deeds of Muhammad)
is vital to understanding the Qur’an. The most authoritative
Hadith is Sahih al-Bukhari. It says (4:636) that the Kaaba
was built forty years before the Jewish Temple-but
the Qur’an
says the Kaaba was built by Abraham and Ishmael more
than a thousand years earlier. Both cannot be correct.
Muslims
claim the hajj and all of its rituals
came down from heaven as a revelation to Muhammad. In reality, Islam carries on
Arab paganism minus only the physical idols-plus jihad to force everyone into
submission to Allah. Islam also retained from Arab paganism the practices of
polygamy and easy divorce, slavery, ceremonial washing away of sins, numerous
social laws and customs, etc.
Likewise,
the “holy
month”
Ramadan (observed as a time of peace by pagan Arabs for centuries before
Muhammad was born), “in
which was revealed the Qur’an” (Surah 2:185),
has been kept unchanged in Islam. It was the “revelation” that Muslims
could fight during Ramadan (Surah 2:217) (for
centuries pagan Arabs laid their weapons aside then) that gave Muhammad the advantage
of surprise and his first success after three failed attacks on rich caravans
heading for Mecca.
This is Islam. And world domination
is the ultimate end it pursues. There
is no escaping Allah’s
command to bring “all
people”
into submission. The only deterrent to Islam from taking
over any given area is its lack of power at the moment.
If
America
and the West do not face the sober truth, they will awaken one day to nuclear
destruction or the horror of chemical and biological devastation. There is no “peace” except where
Islam is in control. “Peace” with Muslims
is, for Israel
and the West, a fool’s
dream that will turn into a nightmare unless we awaken before it is too late.
Note: This article was written by
Dave Hunt for the Nov/Dec issue of Israel My Glory.