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The Kardashians don’t have anything to worry about: Abd Al-Hamid Dabbous, an Islamic scholar, may be the only person in the world who associates glamor with jihad violence, but he seemed to be serious recently when he appeared on Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Gazan Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Al-Youm TV and explained that jihad was the “pinnacle of Islam” and was what made Islam as “glamorous, strong, and lovable” as we all know it to be. You don’t think of Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers as cuddly, amiable lugs? You don’t regard Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a teen idol? Well, don’t forget, he did appear in a glamor shot on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Dabbous, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), explained that “through Jihad, Allah conquers lands as well as hearts and minds.” He emphasized that it was a means of self-defense for the Muslim community, but (contrary to the oft-repeated claims of Islamic apologists in the U.S.) that there was an offensive aspect as well: “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.”
Fourteen centuries of Islamic history bear out what Dabbous says here: Islam has for the most part spread not by proselytizing, but by conquest, followed by the subjugation of the native people that could be ended by their conversion to Islam. Egypt, for example, was ninety-nine percent Christian at the time of the Islamic conquest; now it is about ten percent Christian. The Christians didn’t pack up and leave the country; over time, they converted to Islam to escape the onerous burdens Islamic law places upon non-Muslims.
Dabbous, however, did not think of this as terrorizing those non-Muslims in any way: “We do not want to kill or terrorize people,” he asserted, “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.” If your opinion differs as to the will of the deity, however, Dabbous is decidedly uninterested in your views. He explained that “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.” The jizya poll tax, as The Critical Qur’an explains in detail, is a Qur’an-mandated (9:29) tax that non-Muslims must pay as a sign of their submission to Islamic hegemony.
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gravenimage says
This Man Thinks Jihad Makes Islam ‘Glamorous’ and ‘Lovable.’ Yes, Really.
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And “Strong”.
But “Lovable” is the most grotesque.
One presumes his audience agreed, though.
This was said to Muslims in Gaza in Arabic–we wouldn’t even have known about it if not for MEMRI. Kudos to the for the important work they do.
mortimer says
Agree … we are beholden to MEMRI for exposing REAL ISLAM in the words of Islam’s leading authorities as they speak honestly to Muslim audiences.
When the same sheikhs and mullahs speak to Western audiences, however, they change their tune and try to present Islam as cuddly and ‘benign’.
Islam is NOT ‘benign’ to the dirty KAFIR whom Muslims are required to hate ‘for the sake of Allah’.
mortimer says
Reply to GI: “But “Lovable” is the most grotesque.”
The mullahs is referring to Koranic passages such as Koran 61:4 – “Truly Allah LOVES those who fight in His Cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure.”
Jihad terror in which many Muslims die slaughtering infidels is what Allah LOVES.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer. Murdering Infidels seems to be pretty much the only thing that “Allah” is supposed to love.
bill says
Just confirms what I believe, Muslims are not ‘normal’ peopl
Wellington says
Islamic love is not any kind of love I am interested in. Indeed, it represents a warped kind of love just as Islam in general represents an extremely warped kind of religious belief.
mortimer says
What sort of ‘love’ is in a multiple marriage, if not a sham deception of and by all parties. How much paternal ‘love’ do Muslim children get in a polygamous marriage … precious little.
Islam’s culture is dysfunctional because it is mostly based on deception.
gravenimage says
True, Wellington and Mortimer. There is no love in Islam–not was we would recognize it.
somehistory says
In the language of the mozlum, Lust is translated as “love.”
mozlums *lust* to shed blood; lust to rape, lust to wage war; lust to murder Jews and Christians; lust to find new victims; lust to threaten and terrorize.
Psychopaths do not know how to feel or show love. Psychopaths do not experience or express love. However, psychopaths do seek to manipulate others; to lie and scam; and for many of them, to rape and murder is on their to-do list….or lust.
Wellington says
I have no knowledge, somehistory, of pure romantic love in Islam. Thus, no wonder, as an example, the Islamic world as a whole hates Valentine’s Day, just as it hates so much else which is not purely Islamic, Christmas Day and with all its wonderful aspects (e.g., Christmas as a frame of mind) serving as another example of Islam’s “capacity” to hate and despise “the other.”
Islam is not only warped, control-freakish and in its theological blueprint a total downer, it is the one major religion of man which is ungracious in the extreme. It is all Islam or else—how limited, but then Islam has so many limitations. Countless actually.
mortimer says
To Wellington and friend: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ISLAMIC TEXTS REVEAL IT IS HATE AND FEAR THAT ALLAH WANTS … NOT ‘LOVE’:
There are over 400 references in the Koran to hate, over 300 references in the Koran to Allah and FEAR, but there are only 49 references to love. Of these love references, 39 are negative such as the 14 negative references to love of money, power, other gods and status.
Three verses command humanity to love Allah and only 2 verses are about how Allah loves a believer. There are 25 verses about how Allah does NOT love kafirs (disbelievers).
This leaves 5 verses about love. Of these 5 verses, 3 are about loving kin or a Muslim brother. One verse commands a Muslim to give money for the love of Allah. This leaves only one quasi-universal verse about love: give what you love to zakat-charity and even this is contaminated by dualism since Muslim zakat-charity only goes to other Muslims. There are OVER 400 teachings of HATE directed against all disbelievers: Jews, Christians, Idolaters and Kafirs.
So much for love. HATE and FEAR are what Allah demands in the Koran.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
somehistory says
I agree, Wellington. It’s all about hate and carrying out what comes of hating so much. One cannot love when hate is all one knows, and mozlums have no love at all. They don’t even have normal familial affection, so can easily murder their kids or send them to be suicide terrorists.
mortimer says
To SH: It’s the IDEOLOGY … don’t be like Muslims. They hate the kufaar. Instead, you are required to practice the virtue of LOVING YOUR ENEMIES. Pray for Muslims and denounce their dysfunctional ideology based on hatred of ‘the other’.
DON’T ACT OR TALK LIKE THEM.
somehistory says
“mortimer”… Who died and made you my boss? Wait! Christ died but didn’t make you my boss! He was resurrected and is King! Jesus is my boss and He tells me what is “required” of me…..NOT you! NEVER you!!
You sound just like a mozlum…mozlums say that their ‘prophet’ raped, pillaged, stole, murdered, ordered murder, lied and told them to lie to further the spreading of his evil…but they don’t like it when infidels…Christians or otherwise…are telling the truth about their fake ‘prophet’ and saying he was a mass-murdering son of satan who raped a child and called it marriage, sold women slaves for sex, stole, lied and murdered. When we say it, we are told how wrong we are.
Just like you do “m”….you tell me how wrong I am to tell the Truth about mozlums and islam, but you find it freely your prerogative…it really isn’t, but you don’t care that it isn’t your *right* to say what I say. is wrong,…and call me names and order me around as if…as if you are one of them…They demand and order others….just as you do to me……but then, that is so much like what mozlums do. Hmmmmm? Could it be? Hmmmm. Can you guess, ‘m,’ what I’m thinking about you?
As I said…..I Don’t listen to you…Ever….Never! You are wasting your time.
somehistory says
If you knew the Bible…like you know the filth of “submission” to satan, You would know that what Jesus said to the Pharisees applies fully to your buds, the mozlums.
Jesus said, “You are whitewashed graves, full of dead men’s bones and every sort of uncleanness.” and as I have written here many times, I say to moxlums as Jesus said to the Pharisees, ‘You are from your father the devil and you wish to do the desires of your father.”
Furthermore, “m,” if you understood the command to “love your enemies and pray for those persecuting you,” you wouldn’t try to tell me that I’m doing anything different by my writing the Truth.
But, you lack Knowledge of the Scriptures, and you lack Understanding of the Scriptures and you lack the Wisdom to use them in a proper way and at the proper time.
Your mind is full of the filth of islam….that’s why you “explain” it to everyone and write the verses of filth. and I’m sick of your ordering me around, because I tell the Truth about the filth of “submission” from satan.
john smith says
Mortimer, I wish you wouldn’t keep attacking Somehistory like this. Telling the truth about muslims, is NOT being LIKE MUSLIMS.
Every word in Somehistory’s post is 100% true. To many muslims love is just a meaningless word, they are so consumed with hate that they will never, ever, experience the feelings of love.
As for denouncing their ideology, that’s exactly what she is doing, and she may well love and pray for her enemies, nobody but Somehistory knows that, not you.
somehistory says
thank you very much, John
Yes, my prayers are between me, Jesus and God; and I don’t have to tell anyone for what I ask, what I confess, and ask forgiveness, or even for what I give thanks.
We all have that privacy and freedom from the snooping of others.
We answer to God, not to other humans, no matter how much one person may wish otherwise.
thank you!
gravenimage says
Mortimer, pointing out that Islam does no teach Muslims love is *not* acting like them. You have done the same yourself–*including on this thread*.
I agree with John Smith here–I don’t know why you keep attacking Anti-Jihadist Somehistory.
Johnny B says
When we tell people that this is what jihad really means according to Islam, then we’re immediately labelled racists, nazis, and Islamophobes. I don’t know what they will call this guy? Oh, of course they’ll claim that he’s not really a Muslim even though this man probably studied and lived Islam all his life, while “the typical offended Westener on behalf of Islam” never read a single page of Islamic scripture.
OLD GUY says
A “SCHOLAR” ???????