And why much more is to come.
In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 jihad attacks, politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well as the media establishment, never grew tired of reminding us that Islam was a religion of peace and tolerance. Muslim spokesmen said the same thing as well, and the more time passed after those attacks without another catastrophic act of jihad violence inside the United States, the more plausible the claim seemed. Those who pointed out Islam’s violent texts, teachings and tradition were, we were told, ignorant “Islamophobes” whom all decent people should shun. All was well in our multicultural paradise.
And yet it isn’t. As the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, we still haven’t had another attack comparable to those that took place on that terrible day, but the incidence of smaller-scale attacks that emanate from the same ideology is becoming ever more frequent. On March 1, a Muslim migrant opened fire in a bar in Austin, Texas, killing three people and injuring 13 others. On March 7, two Muslims screaming “Allah akbar” threw a homemade shrapnel bomb at a crowd of pro-freedom protesters in New York City. Then on March 12, a Muslim crashed his car into a Michigan synagogue and opened fire, while another Muslim started shooting at Old Dominion University, murdering one person and injuring two others.
Four jihad attacks in two weeks. There have been many others recently as well. And jihad attacks in the United States are likely only to grow even more frequent.
It seems as if the United States is passing from the Qur’an’s first stage of jihad to the second. Muhammad’s earliest biographer, an eighth-century Muslim named Ibn Ishaq, explains that there is a progression of Qur’anic revelation about warfare. First, he says, the Muslims preached tolerance, because they were a small, powerless band that depended upon the indulgence of larger forces. When the Qur’an says “To you your religion, and to me my religion,” (109:6) it isn’t generously granting to non-believers the right to practice their own religions. It is demanding that tolerance from the non-believers.
When the Muslims gain political and military power, however, they stop preaching tolerance. The second stage of the Qur’an’s teaching on warfare, Ibn Ishaq explains, is defensive jihad. “Permission is given to those who fight,” says the Qur’an, “because they have been wronged, and Allah is indeed able to give them victory.” (22:39) The Michigan synagogue attack would be considered defensive jihad, for it was supposedly revenge for Israel’s alleged atrocities in Lebanon: the Muslims were wronged, so they have permission to fight.
Even that, however, was not Allah’s last word on the circumstances in which Muslims should fight. Ibn Ishaq explains offensive jihad by invoking a Qur’anic verse: “Then God sent down to him: ‘Fight them so that there be no more seduction,’ i.e. until no believer is seduced from his religion. ‘And the religion is God’s’, i.e. Until God alone is worshipped.”
The Qur’an verse Ibn Ishaq quotes here (2:193) commands much more than defensive warfare: Muslims must fight until “the religion is God’s” — that is, until Allah alone is worshipped. “Fight them,” says another Qur’an passage, “until persecution is no more and religion is all for Allah.” (8:39)
The Muslim community passes from one stage to the next as its numbers grow. Only when the community is small and weak, lacking political and military power, does it preach tolerance. When it becomes more powerful, the more violent stages come into play.
This was not just the idea of Ibn Ishaq alone. The great medieval scholar Ibn Qayyim (1292-1350) also outlines the stages of the Muhammad’s prophetic career: “For thirteen years after the beginning of his Messengership, he called people to God through preaching, without fighting or Jizyah, and was commanded to restrain himself and to practice patience and forbearance. Then he was commanded to migrate, and later permission was given to fight. Then he was commanded to fight those who fought him, and to restrain himself from those who did not make war with him. Later he was commanded to fight the polytheists until God’s religion was fully established.”
In other words, he initially could fight only defensively — only “those who fought him” — but later he could fight the polytheists until Islam was “fully established.” He could fight them even if they didn’t fight him first, and solely because they were not Muslim.
Nor do all contemporary Islamic thinkers believe that that command is a relic of history. According to a 20th century Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid, “at first ‘the fighting’ was forbidden, then it was permitted and after that it was made obligatory.” He also distinguishes two groups Muslims must fight: “(1) against them who start ‘the fighting’ against you (Muslims) . . . (2) and against all those who worship others along with Allah . . . as mentioned in Surat Al-Baqarah (II), Al-Imran (III) and At-Taubah (IX) . . . and other Surahs (Chapters of the Qur’an).” (The Roman numerals after the names of the chapters of the Qur’an are the numbers of the suras: Sheikh Abdullah is referring to Qur’anic verses such as 2:216, 3:157-158, 9:5, and 9:29.)
At least some Muslims in the United States seem to have gotten the idea that the time for the stage of tolerance is over. The time has come to fight. We will see much more of this.
Tony says
From Day 1, Islamization, like Cultural Marxism, starts, deceives, and virtue-signals against Non-Muslims using Islamic Law, discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism through our Western Institutions via Muslim MONEY and Muslim LIVES as taught in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 3:54; 7:99; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Islamization includes Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Organizations in Mosques, Muslim Homes, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, etc. to fund, to educate, and to propagate Muslim Propaganda against all Non-Muslims. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day[Non-Muslims]. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid[in Islamic Law], nor believe in the religion of the truth[Islam] among those who have given the book[Jews and Christians] until they pay the jizyah[Extortion Payment] out of hand and they are subdued[disgraced].”
Billy says
Muslims use their own terroristic discretion to act individually or collectively to achieve their ultimate reward from Allah against Non-Muslims in their churches, streets, homes, schools, business, etc. as taught in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 3:169; 9:111; 59:13, etc. Allah in Qur’an 3:169 says, “And do not consider those who were killed for the sake of Allah as dead. Yet they are alive with their lord, receiving their provision.” MUSLIM BELIEVERS are a greater TERROR than Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This jihad needs to be combated on a state-by-state basis. Some, like Virginia, New York, Michigan and Illinois, will pander to jihadists. But others need to take a hard stance. It’s pretty disconcerting that this is happening in places like Ashville, NC, which one wouldn’t normally put down as a muslim infested 💩🕳️
Horatio says
Our political leaders in both parties, with very few exceptions, prefer to keep their heads buried in the sand instead of standing up to the jihadist threat in their own country. These leaders are fools and cowards.
OLD GUY says
My guess is many are receiving political contributions from islamic sources.
Troybeam says
Why jihad is starting for real in America: Oct,2023 in Israel of the attack signaled the Islamic world in every nation they are in to start the war on non Muslims and start the goal of a one world caliphate.
Mosque growth, population growth, illegals coming over the border, allowing Muslims to enter etc., all of these are aiding the Islamic attacks because hey here Muslims get naturalized, green cards, in hiding for coming over the border (supporting such individuals is full filling jihad requirement).
Islam must be removed period. Mosques must be destroyed because Islam’s history with mosques are where weapons and such are stored. No telling if underground tunnels are there as well.
Islam screams “Death to America” that alone by the Constitution is the law of the land because a nation cannot survive with 2 legal systems operating. Public law 414 states that any entity that proclaims to take overthrow a nation is prohibited. People are confused as to what Islam is, is it a religion or is it a theocracy. Islam is a theocracy, sharia law is it government and “religious” teachings. Islam is not a religion.
Would bet Obama and democrats kept this law under the wire and allowed millions of Muslims into America. Islam seeks to overthrow our nation..
Thru a post a Muslim leader quoted ” Islam did not come to co-exist, Islam is always SUPERIOR. Nothing is above Islam.
So pay attention people, Islamic leaders here in America are stating the truth as in Islam will conquer America thru non violent means and so far with Mosque growth, population growth, using the 1st Amendment against the American people Islam is making great strides to destroy our nation from within.
The Violence that is coming is to make Americans afraid just like the people of the UK, Ireland and Scotland.
Walter Sieruk says
Part of this article informs it reader that “In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 jihad attacks, politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well as the media establishment, never grew tired of reminding us that Islam was a religion of peace and tolerance.’
For such disinformation is outright false and likewise terribly misleading. For it’s a good idea not to take at face value the claim that the word Islam means “peace.” For example, the ENCARTA WORLD ENGLISH DICTIONARY copyright 1999 defines Islam as “submission” based on the word “aslama” meaning “he surrendered.” Given the definition it’s an odd phenomenon that after about fourteen hundred years starting on September 12, 2001 the meaning changed from “submission” to “peace.”
It’s very well known that if the police are questioning someone and he changes his story something is wrong. Nevertheless, when it comes to Islam no one gets suspicious of the change. The jihadists brag that they will win the war against the West by using the Western ignorance and naive gullible mindset on the subject of Islam against us. It seems that they do have some basis in that claim since so many Westerners are beguiled by the Muslim disinformation campaign.
For the terrible reality is that Islam is a religion of brutal blood vicious violence,
As the Quran instructs devout Muslims in Surah 2:191. 9 :5. 123, 47:4
Walter Sieruk says
This jihadwatch.org article mentions the next coming “Twenty-fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks”
This is strong reminder that ,sadly, many Americans still haven’t yet learned and likewise have not come to understand the those jihadist mass- murder Islamic terror attacks which occurred on September 11, 2001 had been actual Qu ‘ran based jihad terrorist attacks.
Don’t let them fool you, the many apologists for Islam is will endeavor to set up a smokescreen to hide the reality of the truth about the violence and deadly essence of Islam by making the bogus claim that the al Qaeda operatives mass murderer on 9/11 were not real Muslims and that they were breaking the laws of the Qu ‘ran by their violence and deadly actions.” The apologists for Islam will further make the totally false claim that “Those terrorists on 9/11 were only criminals who hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam for politics.”
Those outrageously false claims are weak attempt of damage control for the image of Islam to the West. For the Qu ‘ran. For the Qu ‘ran instruct in Sura 9:111. Muslims who are engaging the jihad that “The believer’s fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain ,they kill and are killed “ That’s just what happened on September 11, 2001 the jihadists of al Qaeda “killed and were killed” in those 9/11 jihad attacks against both humankind and America. The Quran also teaches in Sura 9:123 to that jihad –minded Muslims behavior towards non-Muslims “let them find harshness in you…” Those Islamic attacks on 9/11 were indeed very “harsh.” As Sura 2:191 instructs “kill the disbeliever wherever you find them.” That’s a very strange kind of “peaceful religion” if there ever was one.
Just to site one more out on many from the Qu ‘ran about the instruction of deadly violence is Sura 47:4. Which instructs “Whenever you encounter unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them …” The terrible harsh reality is that using jet planes as missiles as those jihadist/ Muslims did of September 11, sure made a greater “slaughter among them” than sword can.
The American people to the actual deadly nature of Islam before it’s too late.
gravenimage says
Why the Jihad in America is Heating Up
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Why did we keep inviting Jihadists in–especially after 9/11? Suicidal insanity.