But first, before getting to the faith of Islam, this Islamic scholar, Abd Al-Hamid Dabbous, wants you to know – and he dares to tell – the truth about jihad, as Muslims understand it. Jihad is not mainly about being a better person, a father who cheerfully drives his daughter to soccer practice, a good neighbor who tends a disabled neighbor’s lawn, a sophomore who studies really hard to ace a test on Western Civ. These are all lesser meanings of jihad, the kind of thing to spread among the credulous Infidels who come to an Open Mosque Night, eager to be told the truth about Islam. The real jihad is the violent one, the one by which Muslims subdue the Infidels by force and offer them only three choices: immediate conversion to Islam, death, or the permanent status of dhimmi, by which People of the Book – Christians and Jews – were allowed to remain alive, and even to practice their religions, if they paid the jizyah, a capitation tax, to the Islamic state, and agreed to endure a host of other disabilities as well. And it is that jihad that Abd Al-Hamid Dabbous wants us to know about, to accept, and to approve of. Christine Douglass-Williams wrote about Dabbous’ understanding of jihad earlier this morning, and there is much more that can be said.
“Gaza Islamic Scholar Abd Al-Hamid Dabbous: The Goal of Jihad Is to Make People Convert to Islam,” MEMRI, April 10, 2022:
Jihad is the pinnacle of Islam. It is what makes Islam glamorous, strong, and lovable.
Few things show us how “glamorous, strong and lovable” is Islam as did the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. “Glamourous, strong, and lovable,” too, is Islam, for having incited the killings of the blaspheming twelve Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, the decapitation of teacher Samuel Paty for daring to display for the purposes of a class discussion about free speech a cartoon of Muhammad, the butchering of Drummer Lee Rigby on a London street, the bombing of the Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem when it was full of mothers and children, the suicide bombing of a Passover seder attended by elderly Israelis, the massacre of eleven Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich, the mass decapitations of dozens of kneeling Christians by ISIS executioners, the bombings of the London Metro and busses, the explosives set off at the Atocha subway station in Madrid, the pressure-cooker bombs that were blown up at the Boston Marathon by the Tsarnaev Brothers, the killing by a Muslim couple of fellow employees at a Christmas party in San Bernardino, the decapitation of a French priest while he was saying mass in Normandy, the murder of a rabbi and three little children, aged three, five, and eight, the younger two being his, as they stood outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, the grooming of thousands of young English girls by middle-aged Pakistanis, plying them with drink and drugs, turning them into their sex slaves, passed around like party favors for the sexual pleasure of their Muslim masters.
Anyone can appreciate how very “glamorous, strong, and lovable” Islam must be when it leads Muslims to….well, you can fill up the page yourself, with any of the 41,000 terrorist attacks by jihadists since September 11, 2001. I can think of many adjectives to describe Islam, but never would I have hit upon “glamorous, strong, and lovable.” Would you?
“We do not want to kill or terrorize people, nor do we want to plunder people’s lands or rights, but we want people to convert to Islam. This is Allah’s will, not ours.
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“When groups of [Muslims] set out on jihad for the sake of Allah, they first call people to join Islam. If they accept this – this is what Allah wants and what the Muslims want. Then, those [people] become Muslims with the same duties and rights as ours. If not, they must pay the jizya poll tax in humiliation, or we will fight them, until we attain either martyrdom or victory, with the help of Allah.
Muslims “don’t want to terrorize people,” but only to “convert them to Islam.” Or rather, they do terrorize people, all the time, all over the world, whenever they have the chance, but only for a good cause – to weaken the Infidels’ resolve to resist, to conquer their lands, and then to convert them to Islam. And if non-Muslims don’t convert, and do not pay the jizyah, or fulfill any of the other conditions imposed on dhimmis, then Muslims simply have to wage war on them, to kill or be killed. By their stubbornness, the non-Muslims make Muslims do things they’d rather not do, for they are naturally a peaceful lot, believers in the one true faith, that is “glamorous, strong, and lovable.” It is an act of loving-kindness by Muslims to share Islam with everyone in the world.
“Through Jihad, Allah conquers lands as well as hearts and minds. Jihad is the means by which the Muslims, first of all, defend their lands, their lives, their honor, and their religion, and in addition, it is a means to spread this religion, because the bottom line is that Allah sent down this religion so it would spread throughout the world until all the people become Muslims.
Jihad is not merely, nor mainly, a spiritual campaign. Jihad involves not just the conquest of “hearts and minds,” but also of territory. Jihad involves a real war against non-Muslims, to prevent them from withholding lands that by Allah’s express command must be included in dar al-Islam, the domain of Islam. It is a defensive war when Muslims are being attacked. But more often, jihad designates an offensive war, as Muslims bring the fight to the Infidels, to conquer their lands for the best of reasons, which is to spread Islam through the entire world. The goal is simple: to conquer lands not as an end in itself, but so that all the people in those lands turn into Muslims.
Though Abd Al-Hamid Dabbous at first says that non-Muslims have the option of paying the jizyah and living as dhimmis, he appears to have become less tolerant of unbelief when he says that Allah sent down Islam “so that it would spread throughout the world until all the people become Muslims.” No longer does Dabbous think Islam should spread “until all the people either become Muslims or are forced to live as dhimmis.” That last option has disappeared. Is that a mere oversight by Abd Al-Hamid Dabbous, or isn’t it, far more likely, that he had decided there should be only two options available to non-Muslims after they have been conquered by Muslims: death, or conversion to Islam.
Those conquered Infidels should be grateful for the gift of Islam, even if they are at first forced to accept it. Later on they will come to appreciate that the One True Faith is indeed “glamorous, strong, and lovable.” What’s not to like?
Pierre Delecto says
Islam makes humans as violent as chimpanzees.
Draw your own conclusions.
mortimer says
Allah calls Muslims to be his bounty hunters. Killing kafirs is the ‘currency’ of the Islamic paradise.
gravenimage says
This is true, Mortimer. The only sure way to enter paradise in Islam is to wage Jihad–that is, to murder Infidels.
gregbeetham says
I wonder if anyone has asked this ‘Islamic scholar’ moron what would happen if his wish came true one day, and the world becomes totally Islamic, everyone is a Muslim and there are no more kaffirs to plunder and rape and murder? How are Muslims going to conduct Jihad and get their hands on all those virgins?
gravenimage says
They’ll just murder less orthodox Muslims. This is quite common.
gregbeetham says
I suppose the Sunnis could murder the Shiites and the Alawites and vice versa but eventually one group is going to run out of one or the other, then what? There are no foreign lands anymore to get a free pass into Jannah with by going there to spread Islam, and no Kaffirs to murder for those who might need to make up for some sins like not praying as often as they should or not praying really convincingly (Allah knows these things) so those sinners are going to end up in the burning pit, I don’t see any way out for them.
gregbeetham says
Actually that was tongue in cheek, all Muslims are going into the burning pit, it doesn’t matter what they do or not.
jamet says
Islam is the excuse for violence!
Rafael says
According to FascistBook you should not criricize Islam. Doing so would be “Islamophobic” and “racist”. The West has chosed the path of barbarism instead of helping Jihad victims, as President Erdogan regularly hits at head of the West, while completely ignoring the CHRISTIAN GENOCIDES that occured and are still occuring. Israel is not the only country that is affected by global jihad.saying the otherwise is tantamaunt to destroying the freedom forever and promoting the ugly lies of jihad terrorists.
Johnny B says
Sure, and if you disagree that Islam is indeed “lovable”, YOU are the bigot an Islamophobe and potentially a domestic terrorist. Anybody else see something wrong with this picture?
Aussie Infidel says
Abd Al-Hamid Dabbous admits, “The real jihad is the violent one, the one by which Muslims subdue the Infidels by force and offer them only three choices: immediate conversion to Islam, death, or the permanent status of dhimmi”.
In the Sharia manual, THE RELIANCE OF THE TRAVELER, it says:
o9.0 JIHAD “Jihad means to war against non-Muslims … warfare to establish the religion. The scriptural basis is … Koran 2:216; 4:89; 9:36; and the hadiths by Bukhari and Muslim.
o9.1 Jihad is a communal obligation for all Muslims… a war to establish the religion.”
For Muslims Jihad is not only a struggle to maintain their devotion, but also in the Islamic scriptures, it is used almost exclusively to mean ‘holy war’ to force infidels to accept Islam, Islamic law and Islamic culture.
Dabbous continues, “Jihad is the pinnacle of Islam. It is what makes Islam glamorous, strong, and lovable”. But like all apologists for Islam, Dabbous fails to mention that Islam is attractive mainly to the militants, narcissists and sociopaths in the Muslim community – those with a propensity to control others; with over-sized egos and no empathy or remorse for their actions. And these are the very people – control freaks like Dabbous himself – who then go on to occupy positions of power within Islam, and perpetuate its militant, controlling ideology.
Wellington says
Better when Mo followers are honest right up front respecting what their wretched religion demands. It is the Muslims who deliberately hide what Islam is really all about, as well as that other group of Muslims who are largely ignorant of their own faith, who give much cover to the world’s worst religion of all time.
Yes indeed, honest and knowledgeable Muslims, where their faith is concerned, is what I wish every Muslim would be. It would ensure that the non-Muslim world would far more quickly come to its senses about the many control-freak, destructive, violent and bogus aspects the Islamic theological blueprint puts forth.
Islam is simply awful. It is a giant fraud as well. Therefore, deluded followers of Mo’s creed who state right up front what their religion is about are paradoxically some of the greatest allies in the ultimate destruction of Islam, an event which should have happened long ago and which certainly must happen if mankind is to move on from all totalitarian ideologies and which are all inimical to liberty. Nazism is an example of such. So is Marxism. And, yes, Islam too—easily so.
raja says
Wellington,
A very objective analysis.
It is truly paradoxical that some Islamists could be the greatest allies in the ultimate destruction of islam. They just can’t hold back the truthful blurts about the ultimate objective of islam. That would pit the rest of islam (anything above 90%) against this tiny honest nuts.
Let’s hope the *game* unfolds sooner than later.
Wellington says
Thanks for replying, raja.
James Lincoln says
raja says,
“They just can’t hold back the truthful blurts about the ultimate objective of islam.”
Yes, they just cannot help themselves – even though it hurts their “cause”.
Leftists whitewash this, however, by saying that what the scholar said was “taken out of context” and does not represent the “true islam”.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington. But as you know Muslims are usually honest with each other about Jihad, and only use Taqiyya on Infidels.
This from Abd Al-Hamid Dabbous was in Arabic, and aimed at Muslims in Gaza, and we never would have heard of it if not for MEMRI. Again, kudos to them for their important work.
gravenimage says
Islamic scholar: ‘Jihad is the pinnacle of Islam. It is what makes Islam glamorous, strong, and lovable.’
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Only pious Muslims consider murdering innocent people, including civilians and cartoonists, usually through stealth, to be “glamorous, strong”, and–even more grotesque–“lovable”.
And this thug admits that Muslims spread Islam though the sword, and also admits that Jizya is intended to humiliate its victims.
abu taleb says
That sounds like what ISIS says.
gravenimage says
Yep–just orthodox Islam.