I also want to speak tonight directly to Muslims throughout the world.
We respect your faith.
His teachings are good and peaceful.
And those who commit evil in the name of Allah, blaspheme in the name of Allah.
We have reaffirmed again and again that the United States is not and never will be
at war with Islam.
Islam teaches peace.
Islam is a religion of peace.
They are not Muslims.
They are monsters.
Americans have been assured that Mohammed, the founder of Islam, was a man of peace.
And that Muslim terrorists have hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam.
To know the truth in the matter, we only need to focus on Mohammed in his
own words.
Mohammed, the founder of Islam.
Mohammed was born in 570 and died in 632.
Muslims believe that he was the prophet of God, or messenger of Allah, or apostle of
Allah.
Allah is the Arabic word for God.
Islam is the name of their religion.
Islam means surrender or submission.
It is the second largest religion in the world, claiming almost 1.5 billion people,
who are called Muslims.
Muslims teach that Mohammed was used by Allah to deliver the Quran, which they
believe is the word of God.
Mohammed was an Arab, born in the city of Mecca, on the Arabian Peninsula.
His mother's name was Amina.
His father's name, Abdullah.
His father died while his mother was still pregnant.
When he was six years old, his mother died.
He lived with his grandfather for two years, and then his grandfather died.
At eight years old, Mohammed was an orphan.
His uncle, Abu Talib, took him in and raised him.
In his twenties, he worked for a woman named Khadija.
She was older than him, wealthy, and respected.
Khadija proposed marriage to Mohammed, saying that he was hardworking and that
his clan spoke highly of him.
They married when he was 25.
They had seven children, three boys and four girls.
All of his sons died in childhood.
All of his daughters lived to adulthood.
The most famous was Fatima.
In his thirties, every year, he secluded himself in a cave for a month to pray to
the God of Abraham.
When he was 40, Mohammed said he began to have visions.
Ibn Ishaq reports.
When it was the night on which God honored him with his mission, Gabriel brought him
the command of God.
Mohammed said, The angel caught me forcefully and pressed me so hard that I
could not bear it anymore.
He then released me and again asked me to read.
And I replied, I do not know how to read.
This happened three times.
And on the third time, Mohammed said Gabriel told him to recite.
Read in the name of your Lord who has created, created man from a clot.
Recite and your Lord is the most generous.
He went to his wife and told her what happened.
He was afraid he was going crazy or had seen a demon.
She assured him he was not.
Khadijah was the first person to accept Mohammed's new religion, Islam.
Mohammed's ten-year-old cousin, Ali, was the first male to accept Islam.
Mohammed soon declared Ali his heir and later gave Ali his daughter Fatima as his
wife, which has enormous impact in Muslim history.
For the first three years, Mohammed shared his message secretly with relatives or
trusted friends.
After three years, Mohammed said that the angel Gabriel told him to preach his
message publicly, beginning with his clan.
He called his relatives together.
I am a warner to you in the face of a terrible doom.
I summon you to God and warn you of his punishment.
Save yourself from hellfire.
His uncle, Lahab, cursed him.
Damn you.
May your hands perish this day.
Did you only bring us together for this?
Mohammed's troubles began.
His message enraged the pagan leaders.
He endured insults and persecution.
But because Mohammed's uncle, Abu Talib, was the head of his clan and a very
powerful man in Mecca, Mohammed preached under his uncle's protection.
The leaders of Mecca were so outraged at Mohammed's message, they sought his
uncle's permission to kill him.
Your nephew has cursed our gods, insulted our religion, mocked our way of
life, and accused our forefathers of error.
Either you must stop him or let us get at him to kill him.
Abu Talib repeatedly said no.
In spite of the growing tension.
Mecca was home to hundreds of idols, as well as the Kaaba, that Muslims believe
was built by Abraham and Ishmael, and the Black Stone that fell from the
sky.
Pagans came from hundreds of miles to worship these idols.
Mohammed's condemnation of idolatry was a threat to Mecca's prestige and a threat to
the wealthy and the powerful.
On one occasion, some of the elders were mocking Mohammed while he prayed.
They instigated a man named Uqba to put sheep intestines on Mohammed's back while
he was bowed down in prayer.
Mohammed's daughter, Fatima, came and took the guts off his back.
Mohammed rose and cursed the leaders who stood by laughing.
That curse plays a huge role in Mohammed's story.
Mohammed then received two severe personal blows.
His uncle and protector, Abu Talib, and his wife Khadijah, both died within
weeks of each other.
Abu Talib's death was catastrophic for Mohammed.
Ibn Ishaq said, With the death of Abu Talib, he lost his strength and stay in
his personal life, and the defense and protection against his tribe.
The Quraysh began to treat him in an offensive way which they would not have
dared to follow in his uncle's lifetime.
So for the next two years, he spoke to every tribe that arrived in Mecca on
pilgrimage, saying, I am God's messenger to you, commanding you to worship God,
to cast off whatever idols you worship other than Him, to believe in me and the
truth of my message, and to defend me so that I may make manifest the message of
God I have been sent to convey.
Finally, a small group of men from Medina responded to him.
They agreed to follow his new religion and allow him to settle disputes among them.
Then a second larger group of men came from Medina, including some of their
leaders, who pledged to follow Mohammed's new religion and to defend him and his
followers with the sword if they would relocate to Medina.
Mohammed ordered his followers to emigrate to Medina, some 300 miles to the north.
Every Muslim left Mecca for Medina, with the exception of Mohammed,
his cousin Ali, a few Muslim women, and his father-in-law, Abu Bakr,
the father of Mohammed's child bride, Aisha, who was about eight years old at
that time.
As the Muslims were leaving, Meccan leaders grew fearful that Mohammed might
use his new position of strength in Medina to launch an attack against them.
So, a plot was conceived to kill Mohammed before he left.
Mohammed learned of their plans and he and Abu Bakr escaped to a cave outside the
city.
Ultimately, Mohammed, Abu Bakr, Ali, and the remaining Muslim women
reached Medina in safety.
This departure from Mecca actually begins the Muslim calendar.
It's called the Hijra.
If the story ended here, Mohammed preaching in Mecca, the Muslims being
persecuted, then fleeing to another city to practice their religion, if that was
the end, this story would have been like many stories of persecuted religious
minorities emigrating.
But that's not the end with Mohammed.
Once the Muslims got settled in Medina, Mohammed sent some of his men on a
mission.
The mission was to steal a Meccan caravan during a holy month.
Mohammed's men found the caravan and stole it.
In the process, they killed one of the men leading it and took two hostages.
One other man escaped back to Mecca.
Mohammed's men brought all the stolen goods and hostages back to him and told
him what they did.
Mohammed rebuked them.
Then, Mohammed said he got a revelation from God.
About fighting therein, say, fighting therein is great sin.
But averting people from the way of Allah and disbelieve in Him and preventing
access to the sacred mosque and the explosion of its people from there are
greater evil in the sight of Allah.
Tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter.
Mohammed then learned that a huge Meccan caravan with over 30 armed guards was
traveling from Syria, dwarfing the caravan they stole earlier.
He told his men,
Mohammed himself led the expedition.
This was an act of war.
His biographers say,
After more than a decade preaching in Mecca and over a year of preaching in
Medina, his followers did not know that Mohammed would make war.
They thought he was a man of peace, that Islam would be spread by peaceful
preaching.
Up till then, that was true.
But everything was about to change.
Ibn Kathir states,
The battle took place at a small desert oasis named Badr.
The story of the Battle of Badr is told over and over again in mosques across the
world.
As we'll see, this battle was the turning point where Mohammed began using force to
spread his religion.
The Meccans learned of Mohammed's plans to steal their caravan and quickly marshaled
an army to protect it.
They had around 1,000 men and 200 horses for their cavalry.
Many of the leaders of Mecca who had mocked Mohammed went out to fight.
Mohammed had just over 300 men, 70 camels, and only two horses.
Mohammed's men did not come out to fight an army.
They came to steal a wealthy caravan.
But the caravan had escaped, and now Mohammed's men faced an army triple their
size.
Mohammed did something brand new.
He incited his men to war, Muslims call it jihad, by promising them if they died in
battle, they would go to paradise.
By God, in whose hand is the soul of Mohammed, no man will be slain this day
fighting against them with steadfast courage, advancing not retreating,
but God will cause him to enter paradise.
Prior to this moment, Mohammed never made a connection between fighting and dying in
jihad and getting paradise as the reward.
Prior to this, heaven came by believing in his message.
The promise of gaining paradise through death in battle was new and proved highly
successful.
A man named Umair said, Fine, fine.
Is there nothing between me and my entering paradise save to be killed by
these men?
He seized his sword and fought against them till he was slain.
A man named Auf asked, O apostle of God, what makes the Lord laugh with joy at his
servant?
Mohammed answered, When he plunges into the midst of the enemy without mail.
So Auf drew off the mail coat that was on him and threw it away.
Then he seized his sword and fought the enemy till he was slain.
The battle of Badr raged.
Mohammed's men fought fiercely and won.
300 Muslims routed 1,000 Meccans.
70 Meccans were killed.
70 were taken as hostages.
The rest fled back to Mecca.
Only 14 Muslims were killed and none were taken hostage.
The battle of Badr was the turning point for Mohammed and the Muslims.
They viewed this victory as a miraculous sign from Allah himself that Mohammed was
the prophet of Allah.
And Allah has already made you victorious at Badr when you were a weak little force.
And here has already been a sign for you in the two armies that met.
All but one of the elders that Mohammed cursed years earlier in Mecca died in
battle at Badr.
This was yet another sign to Mohammed's followers that he was Allah's apostle.
Their dead bodies were thrown into a dried out well that was filled with refuse.
Mohammed stood over their dead bodies, taunting them.
O people of the well, you were evil fellow tribesmen to your prophet.
Have you found what your Lord promised you to be true?
For I have found what my Lord promised me to be true.
The leader of Mohammed's enemies in Mecca, Abu Jal, was killed in battle.
As he was dying, his head was cut off and brought to Mohammed.
Mohammed bowed down to the ground, saying, Praise be to God.
The hadith records, The prophet and his companions used to forgive the pagans and
the people of scripture as Allah had ordered them, and they used to put up with
their mischief with patience.
So the prophet used to stick to the principle of forgiveness for them as long
as Allah ordered him to do so, till Allah permitted fighting them.
The hadith finishes, So when Allah's apostle fought the battle of Badr,
and Allah killed the nobles of Quraysh infidels through him, many pagans became
Muslims.
Before Badr, Mohammed and his companions forgave those who did not believe.
At Badr, Allah permitted fighting the unbelievers.
At Badr, Muslims claim Allah killed the unbelievers through Mohammed and his men.
To this very day, Muslim children and adults are told that the battle of Badr
was the victory of truth over error.
It was a miraculous outcome that testified that Mohammed was Allah's prophet and
confirmed his message.
From Badr forward, it redefined Mohammed and his message.
All Muslims who died in jihad were then referred to as martyrs who go to paradise.
Mohammed told a mother, grieving her son's death at Badr, Have you gone crazy?
There are eight gardens there, and your son has earned the very highest
of paradise.
Dozens of poems were written eulogizing those who fought and died at Badr.
Mohammed knew that this battle raised him to a new status.
His enemies feared him more than ever.
He compared his victory at Badr to God destroying Pharaoh's army in the Red Sea.
After Badr, Mohammed said Gabriel gave him chapter 8 of the Quran.
When your Lord revealed to the angels, I am with you.
Therefore make firm those who believe.
I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.
Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
That is because they opposed Allah and his messenger.
Whose opposeth Allah and his messenger for him, lo Allah is severe in punishment.
Indeed, in the messenger of Allah, you have a good example to follow.
He who obeys the messenger has obeyed Allah.
Most of us in non-Muslim nations know nothing about Mohammed.
Nothing about his life, his words, his example, and his companions.
And the history of Mohammed's life, while foreign to us, is central to all of
Islam.
In Islamic writings, Mohammed's example is known as the Traditions of the Prophet.
Another word Muslims use for Mohammed's traditions is sunnah.
Sunnah means a way of life, a behavior that is followed or to be imitated.
And the written record of Mohammed's traditions and sunnah is called the
Hadith.
So, the Traditions of the Prophet, the Sunnah, and the Hadith are used
together to focus on Mohammed's words and example, which in Islamic thought is the
model for a Muslim's behavior.
Mohammed's life has a narrative, multiple stories, but most of those
stories about Mohammed and his traditions, they're not in the Quran.
One mistake that non-Muslims often make is we think we can read the Quran and
understand Islam.
No.
The record of Mohammed's life, his sunnah, his traditions, his words and
deeds, is in scores of large volumes, literally millions of words that are not
in the Quran.
To study Mohammed, we must turn to those sources, books that Muslims hold as sacred
records of Mohammed's words and his example, such as Sahih Bukhari and Sahih
Muslim.
They also turn to the ancient biographies on Mohammed, The Life of Mohammed by Ibn
Ishaq, The History of Al-Tabari, and The Life of the Prophet Mohammed by
Ibn Kathir.
Everything we'll examine about Mohammed will come from ancient Islamic sources.
We'll study their words, their history, their heroes.
We will not alter one fact about Mohammed as they tell it.
We will let Muslim literature and the testimony of their historians and their
theologians answer the question, What would Mohammed do?
After Mohammed's victory at Badr, he had 70 hostages from Mecca.
Mohammed singled out two captives, both of them nobles of Mecca, Al-Nadir and
Uqba.
Al-Nadir used to listen to Mohammed preach in Mecca.
He would then argue with Mohammed or insult him.
I swear by God, Mohammed is no better a storyteller than me.
His talk is only of ancient legends from which he borrows, just as I do.
He taunted Mohammed.
I can tell a better story than he.
Come to me.
Mohammed had Al-Nadir brought before him and sentenced him to death, saying it was
because he had insulted him when they were in Mecca.
No trial, no mercy.
He ordered his young cousin Ali to cut off his head.
Ali obeyed and severed Al-Nadir's head from his body while Mohammed looked on
stoically.
Mohammed then ordered Uqba, the man who put sheep guts on his back in Mecca,
to stand before him and said to his men, Do you know how this man treated me?
He came up while I was prostrate in prayer, placed his foot on the back of my
neck and pressed down on it.
I thought my eyes were going to come out before he lifted up his foot.
Mohammed sentenced Uqba to death.
Uqba plead for his life.
Am I to be killed while the other hostages are not?
Mohammed was unmoved.
Uqba begged for mercy.
Who will take care of my children?
Mohammed said, Hellfire.
And had him decapitated.
Mohammed let all the other hostages live.
But by his own testimony, he had these two men decapitated in his presence because
they had insulted him back in Mecca.
From Badr forward, if any man or woman insulted, mocked, or satirized Mohammed in
song or poetry, they were executed or assassinated at Mohammed's command.
The defeat of the Meccans and death of so many nobles at Badr shook the region.
Many poets lamented the battle's outcome and criticized Mohammed.
One such poet was Ka'b ibn Ashraf.
The Muslims called him the enemy of God.
He was part Jewish, part Arab.
After the Meccan loss at Badr, the enemy of God began to invade against
the apostle and recite verses bewailing the nobles killed at Badr.
He composed verses that were suggestive about Muslim women and critical of the
prophet and his followers.
Ka'b urged Mohammed's followers to forsake him.
Drive off that fool of yours that you may be safe from talk that has no sense.
Mohammed asked a group of his men, Who will rid me of Ka'b, the son of
Ashraf?
Mohammed bin Muslama said, I will deal with him for you.
O apostle of God, I will kill him.
Mohammed said, Do so if you can.
The assassin recruited two other Muslims, including Ka'b's foster brother,
who had recently become a Muslim.
Ka'b didn't know that his foster brother was following Mohammed.
Mohammed personally walked the three assassins to the edge of town at night to
set out on their journey to commit murder.
Mohammed prayed, Go in God's name.
O God, help them.
The three assassins successfully deceived Ka'b by a false business deal.
They lured him out for a night stroll and then murdered him.
I plunged the dagger into his breast and pressed upon it so heavily that it reached
his genitals.
And the enemy of God fell.
They returned to Mohammed and reported, We have killed the enemy of God.
A woman named Asma, the daughter of Marwan, wrote verses against Mohammed.
Do you expect good from him after the killing of your chiefs, like a hungry man
waiting for a cook's broth?
Is there no man of pride who would attack him by surprise and cut off the hopes of
those who expect ought from him?
Ibn Ishaq records these words, When the apostle heard what she had said,
he said, Who will rid me of Marwan's daughter?
Umair, who was with him, heard him, and that very night he went to her house
and killed her.
In the morning he came to the apostle and told him what he had done.
You have held God and his apostle, Umair.
Asma was murdered in her bed while she held her baby at Mohammed's order and with
his congratulations, because she had insulted Mohammed.
From Badr forward, Mohammed had people killed for mocking him.
Even people who had insulted him a decade earlier in Mecca.
Mohammed ultimately conquered Mecca, but before he entered the city at the head
of a massive army, he named seven men and women who were to be summarily killed if
they were found.
One of the apostates had two female singers who would sing songs mocking the
messenger of God and the Muslims.
This is why the messenger of God condemned him and the two singers to death.
Also he condemned Al-Huwairith.
He had been one of those who insulted the messenger of God in Mecca.
Then there was Sarah, who was also executed, because she used to insult the
messenger of God while he was in Mecca.
Mohammed executed people for insults that were ten years old.
The new message of Islam was clear.
There is no God but Allah, Mohammed is his messenger, and do not criticize or mock
Mohammed, because you will be killed.
The apostles said, kill any Jew that falls into your power.
Our attacks upon God's enemy cast terror among the Jews, and there was no Jew in
Medina that did not fear for his life.
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews,
and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone
or tree, and the stone or tree would say, Muslim, or the servant of Allah,
there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
His conflict with the Jews began in earnest after the Battle of Badr.
He gathered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qainuqa in the market of Medina,
and warned them to accept him as their prophet.
Beware lest God bring on you the like of the retribution which he brought on the
Meccans, Quraysh.
Accept Islam, for you know that I am a prophet sent by God.
You will find this in your scriptures and in God's covenant with you.
They scoffed, accusing him of being deluded.
Muhammad, do you think that we are like your people?
Do not be diluted by the fact that you met a people with no knowledge of war,
and that you made good use of your opportunity.
By God, if you fight us, you will know that we are real men.
As far as the Jews were concerned, there was nothing supernatural about
Muhammad's victory at Badr.
It was certainly not a sign from God that he was a prophet in the line of Noah and
Abraham and Moses.
Muhammad had simply won a desert battle.
Muhammad would not tolerate Jews undermining his claim that his victory at
Badr was a miracle.
He gathered his armed men and laid siege to their homes and their neighborhoods.
After 15 days, the Jews surrendered.
They were fettered and he wanted to kill them.
One of Muhammad's recent converts named Abdullah grabbed Muhammad's shoulder and
kept urging Muhammad to spare the Jews.
Treat my friends well!
The chained Jews and the Muslim crowd fixed their eyes on Muhammad.
Muhammad's face was black with rage.
Confound you!
Let me go!
The man replied, No, by God, I will not let you go until you treat my friends
well.
400 men without armor and 300 with coats of mail who defended me from the Arab and
the non-Arab alike.
And you would mow them down in a single morning?
So the messenger of God said, They are yours.
Let them go.
May God curse them.
And may he curse Abdullah with them.
Then the messenger gave orders to expel them and God gave their property as booty
to his messengers and the Muslims.
The Banu Qaynuqa did not have any land as they were goldsmiths.
The messenger of God took many weapons belonging to them and the tools of their
trade.
They were driven out of Medina.
Most of them fled to Syria.
Muhammad and some of his followers became wealthy with the spoils of this
confrontation.
The purging of the Jews from Medina continued.
One year later, Muhammad was returning from a standoff with the Meccans known as
the Battle of the Trench in which no major fighting occurred.
He said that the angel Gabriel stopped him.
Have you laid down your arms, messenger of God?
Yes, he replied.
The angels have not laid down their arms.
God commands you, Muhammad, to go to Banu Qurayza.
I am about to go to them to shake their strongholds.
The Banu Qurayza was another Jewish clan.
Muhammad told his men.
That was Gabriel who has been sent to Banu Qurayza to shake their castle and strike
terror to their hearts.
The apostle besieged them for 25 nights until they were sore pressed and God cast
terror into their hearts.
Rather than fight, the Jews decided to submit to Muhammad's terms.
Rather than issue a judgment himself, Muhammad handpicked a judge from Medina,
Sa'd bin Mu'ad.
On the day of the battle of Badr, Sa'd told Muhammad.
O prophet of God, extensive killing is dearer to me than sparing men's lives.
With no Jews present, Sa'd issued his judgment.
I pass judgment that the men shall be killed, the property divided, and the
women and children taken as captives.
Many of the Muslims were shocked.
Muhammad immediately affirmed Sa'd's genocidal verdict.
You have passed judgment on them with the judgment of God and the judgment of his
messenger.
Then the apostle went out to the market of Medina and dug trenches in it.
Then he sent for them and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were
brought out to him in batches.
There were 600 or 700 in all.
Though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900, this went on until the apostle
made an end of them.
Muhammad and his men again increased their wealth from the spoils of the debt.
Then the apostle divided the property, wives, and children of Banu Qurayza among
the Muslims.
The apostle sent some of the captive women of Banu Qurayza in the city of Nadaj,
and he sold them for horses and weapons.
The apostle had chosen one of their women for himself, Rayanima, and she remained
with him until she died in his power.
This slaughter put an end to the Jews in Medina.
Then he killed their men and distributed their women, children, and properties
among the Muslims.
The messenger of Allah turned out all the Jews of Medina, Banu Qurayza, and the Jews
of Banu Qurayza, and every other Jew who was in Medina.
Muhammad and his men journeyed to Khaybar, about 110 miles from Medina, to launch an
unprovoked attack.
Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, asked Muhammad, Allah's messenger, on what issue
should I fight with the people?
Thereupon he said, Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there
is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.
Muhammad knew they were not going to convert.
So without warning, and without justification, Muhammad and his men
arrived.
Muhammad cried out, Allahu Akbar!
Khaybar is destroyed!
The apostle seized the property piece by piece, and conquered the forts one by one,
as he came to them.
The apostle took captives from them, among whom was Safiyya.
The apostle chose Safiyya for himself.
Safiyya was married to Kinana, one of the chiefs of Khaybar, who was the
tribe's treasurer.
Kinana was dragged before Muhammad.
Muhammad demanded the gold.
Kinana told him there was none to be had.
Sadly, another Jew informed Muhammad that Kinana was hiding the wealth at a nearby
ruin.
Muhammad told Kinana, You know that if we find it in your position, I shall kill
you.
Kinana said yes, and prepared to die.
Muhammad's men found some of the gold.
Muhammad demanded Kinana surrender the rest.
Again, Kinana bravely refused.
So Muhammad gave orders to his men, Torture him until you extract what he has.
So he kindled a fire with flint, and steel on his chest until he was nearly
dead.
The apostle delivered him to Muhammad, son of Maslama, and he struck off his
head.
After Kinana was dead, Muhammad took the man's beautiful young bride, Safiyya,
for a sex slave.
Muhammad and his men conquered the predominantly Jewish city of Khaybar.
After the victory, he told his men the terms under which they could rape the
women.
It's not lawful for a man who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mingle his seed
with another man's, meaning to approach carnally a pregnant woman among the
captives, nor is it lawful for him to take her until he has made sure that she is in
a state of cleanness.
Being in a state of cleanness means that she had her menstrual cycle, ensuring that
she was not pregnant.
After the battle of Khaybar, Muhammad took for himself a sex slave, the beautiful
teenager Safiyya.
The prophet then brought Safiyya, whom he had won from the war booty.
The Muslims said among themselves, will she, Safiyya, be one of the mothers
of the believers, one of the wives of a prophet or just a lady captive of what his
right hand possesses?
Some of them said, if the prophet makes her observe the veil, then she will be one
of the mothers of the believers, one of the prophet's wives, and if he does
not make her observe the veil, then she will be his lady slave.
When he departed, he made a place for her behind him and made her observe the veil.
The Quran has several passages that teach that a Muslim may have lawful sex with his
wives, up to four of them, and with his female slaves captured in war.
A slave, in Islamic and Quranic terminology, is referred to as what thy
right hand possesses.
O Prophet, we have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast bade their dowers,
and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has
assigned to thee.
And those who guard their chastity except with their wives and their captives whom
their right hands possess, for then they are not to be blamed.
Raihana was one of Muhammad's sex slaves that Muslim historians refer to.
On account of the messenger of God's slave concubines, they were Maryabiti,
Sham-un-Durgub, and Raihana from Banu Qurayza.
The apostle had chosen one of their women for himself, Raihana, and she remained
with him until she died in his power.
And again, Al-Tabari discusses her sexual slavery in a very spiritual fashion.
God granted Raihana of the Banu Qurayza to his messenger as Buti.
Raihana was Buti to Muhammad, a prize of war from Allah, a sexual slave,
not a wife.
Likewise, Maria, the Coptic Christian, was a sexual slave.
In another account of Muhammad's brutality toward women captured in battle,
we read this.
Usually, Muslims killed all the husbands.
However, on this occasion, the husbands were still alive.
Muhammad's men didn't know what to do, so they asked Muhammad if it was legal to
rape these married women while their husbands yet lived.
Muhammad said he got a revelation from God.
Muslims were forbidden to have sex with married women unless they were slaves or
captives of war, such as the women they had just captured.
Also forbidden are women already married except those captives and slaves whom your
right hands possess.
With Muhammad's approval and a Quranic revelation to justify their detestable
crimes, his men proceeded to rape their female captives, young and old,
virgins and the married.
Those of Muhammad's men who raped married women could not be accused of adultery
because all their marriages were annulled.
They could not be accused of rape because the women were slaves.
Based on these words and actions of Muhammad, Islamic Sharia law states,
When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture,
and the woman's previous marriage is immediately annulled.
Here is yet another example from Muhammad's life.
It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to
the day of resurrection will be born.
Note that Muhammad did not rebuke his men for raping the women.
These particular men did not want children from their captives.
That's all Muhammad addressed.
However, capturing sex slaves for the purpose of bearing children was a practice
of Muhammad's companions.
For example, one of Muhammad's young warriors said, I wanted Muhammad to win
this battle so that I might get a girl whom I might tread so that she might bear
me a son.
For taqif are a people who produce intelligent children.
Muhammad spoke with one of his followers who was in a hurry to return home from an
expedition.
The man recounted Muhammad's words.
He said to me, What makes you in such a hurry?
I replied, I am newly married, he said.
Did you marry a virgin or a matron?
A matron.
Why didn't you marry a young girl so that you may play with her and she with you?
Muhammad also had a child bride, Aisha.
In a hadith, she recounts the day Muhammad consummated his marriage with her when she
was nine years old.
My mother came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girlfriends.
She called me and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me.
She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house.
I was breathless then, and when my breathing became all right, she took some
water and rubbed my face and head with it.
There in the house, I saw some Ansari women who said, best wishes and Allah's
blessing and good luck.
Then she entrusted me to them, and they prepared me for the marriage.
Unexpectedly, Allah's apostle came to me in the forenoon, and my mother handed me
over to him.
And at that time, I was a girl of nine years of age.
The apostle of Allah married me when I was seven or six.
When we came to Medina, some women came to me when I was swinging.
They took me, made me prepare, and decorated me.
I was then brought to the apostle of Allah, and he took up cohabitation with me
when I was nine.
Yet another hadith says it bluntly.
He married Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consummated that
marriage when she was nine years old.
Muhammad clearly favored the young child, Aisha.
Historians record that she was the only virgin he ever married.
Jihad, holy fighting in Allah's cause, is ordained for you Muslims, though you
dislike it.
And it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and that you like a
thing which is bad for you.
Allah knows, but you do not know.
Literally hundreds of hadith quote Muhammad extolling the glories of jihad.
For example, A man came to Allah's apostle and said, Instruct me as to such a deed as
equals jihad in reward.
He replied, I do not find such a deed.
One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah, nor did he express any desire or
determination for jihad, died the death of a hypocrite.
This is what Sharia law states about jihad, based on the Quran and Muhammad's
example.
Jihad is a communal obligation for every able-bodied male who has reached puberty.
If none of those concerned perform jihad, and it does not happen at all,
then everyone who is aware that it is obligatory is guilty of sin, if there was
a possibility of having performed it.
Guilty of sin for not having fought in jihad.
Muhammad made clear the main purpose of jihad was forced conversion to Islam.
He said, I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no
God but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
If they say it, they have saved their blood and positions from me.
Converting non-Muslims was more important to Muhammad than killing them or robbing
them.
If they converted, they became his obedient subjects.
He would have their lives and possessions at his disposal.
But if they would not convert, he would kill them and seize their
belongings.
Abu Bakr, Muhammad's first caliph, affirmed Muhammad's use of terror and
jihad to convert non-Muslims.
Allah then guided by the truth, whoever answered him.
And the Prophet struck and fought those who turned away from him by his permission
until they entered Islam, either willingly or grudgingly.
In the Quran, Muhammad was very specific about jihad for the purpose of converting
non-Muslims.
So, when you meet and fight jihad in Allah's cause, those who disbelieve,
smite their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them,
then bind a bond firmly on them, take them as captives.
Thus, you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out jihad against the
disbelievers till they embrace Islam and are saved from the punishment in the
hellfire, or at least come under your protection.
Sharia law clearly states the objectives of jihad.
The caliph, Muhammad's successor, makes war upon Jews, Christians,
and Zoroastrians until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax.
The caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslims.
While converting people through force might have been Muhammad's top priority,
risking their lives in battle to evangelize non-Muslims might not have been
a top priority for some of Muhammad's followers, even the most devout.
So, he gave them added incentives, spoils if they lived, paradise if they
died.
Muhammad said,
Let's begin with the spoils of war.
Dividing the booty, the spoils of battle, was a part of every victorious battle.
Specific rules were laid down by Muhammad regarding the portion a jihadist would
receive, based in part as to whether he was a foot soldier, or on a horse,
or a camel.
Houses, lands, weapons, horses, down to the smallest items, such as
sandals and leather straps, were divided among the Muslims who survived jihad.
The distribution of women as sex slaves was constantly given special note and
great detail by Muslim historians.
This is partly due to the fact that many of these sex slaves bore children to some
of the most famous of Muhammad's companions, starting with his
father-in-law, Abu Bakr, and his son-in-law, Ali, who took or distributed
women as sex slaves.
Abu Bakr rewarded a Muslim warrior.
Abu Bakr commanded that he be given a girl from among those captives, and she
subsequently bore him a child.
Ali bought the daughter of Rabia, taking her for himself.
She bore him Umar and Ruqayya.
Ali purchased the daughter of Ali, Judy, whose beauty was extolled.
These were Muhammad's closest friends and family.
These were his successors.
These are the men who spread Islam and Sharia law with the sword, not by
preaching.
As an even deeper incentive, Muhammad promised jihadists eternal life for
themselves and their family if they died in battle while attempting to kill
non-Muslims.
Truly the martyr is given by Allah Almighty six things.
Forgiveness of sins from the first drop of his blood to be shed.
Protection from the torment of the grave.
Safety from the greatest fear, the day of judgment.
Receiving the crown of veneration, a single sapphire of which is worth more
than the whole world and its contents, merged to 72 of the wide-eyed virgins.
Intercession on behalf of 70 of his relatives.
In another hadith, Muhammad promised musk for the dead jihadist.
If a person gets wounded in the way of Allah, he will come on the day of judgment
with his wound in the same condition as it was when it was first inflicted,
its color being the color of blood, but its smell will be the smell of musk.
Musk was an aphrodisiac, a sex stimulant used to make women more welcoming to
copulation.
Note how lucrative and sensual the earthly and heavenly promises are.
If the jihadist lives, he divides the spoils.
If he dies, he gets a sapphire worth more than all the contents of the world.
If he lives, he may come home with a sex slave.
If he dies, he will have 72 sex slaves in paradise.
Wealth and sex slaves on earth or wealth and sex slaves in paradise with musk to
stimulate lust.
And of course, there is the promise of eternal life free of hellfire for the
jihadist as well as 70 of his relatives.
These incentives, houses, lands, horses, camels, armor, sex slaves or
eternal paradise with 72 sex slaves, streams of water, perpetual feasts.
These promises coupled with the promise of eternal life for the jihadist and his
family were all it took to create a maniacal terrorist force that routed
armies, seized property and converted or enslaved the people of the Middle East or
who were willing to die in the effort.
Conversion at the point of the sword is exactly what happened in Mohammed's day
over and over.
For example, we reported on Asma, the woman who was murdered in her bed at
Mohammed's order for composing poems against him.
Her assassination resulted in conversions.
Now there was a great commotion amongst the tribe of Khatama that day about her
affair with Asma.
She had five sons.
And when Amir went to them from the apostle, he said, I have killed Asma,
all sons of Khatma.
Withstand me if you can.
Don't keep me waiting.
That was the first day that Islam became powerful amongst the tribe of Khatma.
That day after Asma was killed, the men of Khatma became Muslim because
they saw the power of Islam.
The power of Islam, which inspired the men of that village to become Muslims,
was Mohammed's ability to order the assassination of someone who did not
believe in him and for the killer to defy justice.
We reported about the command of Mohammed, kill any Jew that falls under your power.
One of Mohammed's followers who obeyed Mohammed's order murdered a Jewish man who
was his business associate and a friend.
The murderer had an older brother who was not yet a Muslim.
When he heard that his younger brother had murdered his Jewish friend, he began to
beat him.
You enemy of God, did you kill him when much of the fat on your belly comes from
his wealth?
The murderer replied angrily, had the one who ordered me to kill him ordered me to
kill you, I would have cut your head off.
By God, if Mohammed had ordered you to kill me, would you have killed me?
Yes, by God, had you ordered me to cut off your head, I would have done so.
The older brother realized that if his own brother would kill him at Mohammed's
command, he could be next.
So he said, by God, a religion which can bring you to this is marvelous.
And he became a Muslim.
He converted because if he didn't, he knew that he could be killed by his own
brother at Mohammed's command.
On another occasion, Abu Safiyan, an enemy of Mohammed's, who Mohammed had
already attempted to assassinate, was brought before Mohammed under the
promise of safe passage.
Mohammed held the man's life in his hand and said, isn't it time that you should
recognize that there is no God but Allah?
Woe to you, isn't it time that you recognize that I am God's apostle?
Abu Safiyan answered honestly, as to that I still have some doubt.
A Muslim standing by warned him that death was imminent.
Submit and testify that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is the apostle
of God before you lose your head.
Before the blade found Abu Safiyan's neck, he pledged his allegiance.
There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger.
He converted with a sword at his throat, which Mohammed accepted.
Abu Safiyan went on to be a general in Mohammed's army, converting or killing
others in the same way.
Coercion and fear of death was a standard tool for converting non-Muslims to
Mohammed.
Mohammed said,
But Mohammed did not start his mission this way.
When he fled for his life to Medina, he had 200 converts after 10 years of
peaceful preaching in Mecca.
But after the battle of Badr, when Mohammed said that Allah wanted killing
and terror and decapitations to spread Islam, Mohammed inspired mass conversions.
Many of the men with Mohammed at the battle of Badr were pagan natives of
Medina who had not yet even converted to Islam.
They joined Mohammed's army to steal the wealth of a caravan.
But the drama of that battle and Mohammed's claims that the fight was
between truth and error, that was enough proof to induce these thieves and
idolaters to believe that Mohammed was a prophet.
They became Muslims.
So when Allah's apostle fought the battle of Badr, and Allah killed the nobles of
Quraysh infidels through him, the pagans and idolaters who were with him said,
This matter, Islam, has become victorious.
So they gave the pledge of allegiance for embracing Islam to Allah's apostle and
became Muslims.
Sometimes Mohammed's enemies were slain in battle or brutally murdered.
Sometimes they were enslaved.
Other times they were captured, then sold, traded, or released.
Sharia law declares, When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the
interests of Islam in the Muslims and decides between the prisoner's death,
slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself in exchange for money
or for a Muslim captive held by the enemy.
If the prisoner becomes a Muslim, then he may not be killed and one of the
other three alternatives is chosen.
Mohammed knew enough about true prophets like Noah, Abraham, and Moses to know that
none of them used terror and slaughter to call men to God.
None of them used theft and extortion to found their religion.
So Mohammed said his use of terror and the spoils of war was a special gift from
Allah.
I have been given superiority over the other prophets.
I have been made victorious with terror cast in hearts of the enemy.
Spoils have been made lawful to me, and the line of prophets is closed with
me.
And while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me
and put in my hand.
Mohammed's ultimate goal in the use of terror was to establish Islam.
He ordered his generals, Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah.
Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah.
Make a holy war.
When you meet your enemies, invite them to three courses of action.
Invite them to accept Islam.
If they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against
them.
If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the non-Muslim tax.
If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands.
If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them.
Against them, make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds
of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies
and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know.
The goal of the terror was the victory of Islam over the entire world.
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden
which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of
truth, even if they are of the people of the Book, the Bible, until they pay the
tax with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.
In one of Muhammad's battles, he conquered the tribe of al-Mustalik.
Death and fear produced many converts.
God put the enemy to flight and killed some of them and gave the apostle their
wives, children, and property as booty.
When the apostle distributed the captives, the daughter of one of the chiefs,
Geraria, fell to the lot of Thabit to become his slave.
Aisha said, She was a most beautiful woman.
She captivated every man who saw her.
She came to the apostle to ask his help in the matter.
By God, as soon as I saw her, I hated her for coming to the prophet, for I knew he
would see her as I did.
She went in and told him who she was.
You can see what misfortune has befallen me.
I have come to you to ask your aid for my ransom.
Muhammad said to her, Would you like something better than that?
She said, What is it, messenger of God?
I will pay your ransom and marry you.
She said, Yes, messenger of God.
And he said, I do so.
When the news got out to the people that the messenger of God had married Geraria,
they said, They are relatives by the marriage of the messenger of God,
and they set free those in their possession.
When he married her, one hundred families were freed.
I know of no woman who was a greater blessing to her people than she.
After her people's bloody defeat and capture, she became a Muslim, married
Muhammad, and then one hundred families were set free to become Muslims.
The most successful general of that era was the brutal Khalid ibn Walid.
He had a standard speech he would give when he was about to conquer a city.
I call you to God and to Islam.
If you responded to the call, then you are Muslims.
You obtain the benefits they enjoy and take up the responsibilities they bear.
If you refuse, then you must pay the jizya tax.
If you refuse the tax, I will bring against your tribes of people who are more
eager for death than you are for life.
Embrace Islam or face an army of men who love death more than you love life.
The most striking example of force and terror being used by Muhammad for mass
conversion is his conquest of Mecca.
Mecca, the city that had mocked and expelled him, the city whose leaders tried
to kill him.
Eight years after fleeing from Mecca, Muhammad had built an army of 10,000 men.
The time was right to capture Mecca, the most important city of the Arabian
Peninsula, the center of pagan idolatry and the base of his opposition.
As he approached the city, he instructed his generals to only kill those that
resisted as well as the people who had left Islam or mocked him in poetry and
song.
He sent messengers to the city to promise that anyone who remained in his house
would not be killed.
Muhammad and his army marched in, finding only small pockets of resistance
that were quickly dispatched and proceeded to go to the Kaaba.
He and his men toppled and burned every single idol.
The icons of Jesus and Mary were either painted over or removed.
He announced to all Meccans that their lives would be spared if they swore
allegiance to him, to his religion, and to his rule.
With their idols in smoldering ash heaps and Muhammad's sword at their throats,
they submitted and gave their allegiance to the man that, a week earlier,
they were still hoping to kill.
One at a time, each man and woman approached him and declared, There is no
god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.
Mecca converted.
Muhammad then declared Mecca to be the most sacred city of Islam.
Mecca, the city that rejected Muhammad when it was free, was converted by force,
bloodshed, and terror, and then forced to become the center of his new religion.
In ten years of peaceful preaching in Mecca, Muhammad only had about 200
converts.
In ten years of violent war launched from Medina, Muhammad had converted most of the
Arabian Peninsula and killed thousands who would not convert.
And in the ten years after Muhammad's death, his companions, using these same
bloody tactics, had conquered all of modern Jordan, Israel, Palestine,
and Syria.
In those first ten years after Muhammad's death, his raping and slaughtering armies
also conquered huge parts of modern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran,
Turkey, Egypt, and North Africa, leaving hundreds of thousands dead,
hundreds of thousands of women and children in slavery, cities in ruins,
churches and synagogues in ashes, or stolen and turned into mosques.
This is how Muhammad's armies spread the religion of Islam after Muhammad's death.
One can understand how those who had sworn an oath of loyalty to Muhammad with a
sword at their throats might be tempted to leave Islam once Muhammad was dead.
This is exactly what happened.
When Muhammad died in 632, tens of thousands of Muslims in Arabia abandoned
Islam.
This is known as the Great Apostasy.
With Muhammad barely in the grave, Abu Bakr, the first caliph, faced a
crisis.
What would he do to save Islam?
Abu Bakr was Muhammad's closest friend.
He was his father-in-law, father of Muhammad's child, Brad Aisha.
Keeping the Muslim community intact and Islam alive depended on his swift and
decisive actions.
He knew what to do.
Muhammad's command rang in his ears.
Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.
Anyone who made the profession of faith, there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is
his messenger, and then turned away from Islam, must be killed.
Muhammad had personally ordered the execution of those who left Islam.
Abu Bakr contrived a plan.
The majority of Arabians came to Islam by force.
They would be brought back and made to stay in Islam by force.
They would be given a short opportunity to repent of their apostasy or they would be
killed.
He sent Khalid ibn Walid at the head of a fierce army to march on the renegade
cities.
Walid would offer one chance to come back.
If they refused, he would kill them, as Muhammad commanded.
Abu Bakr wrote the following letter to those who had left Islam.
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, from Abu Bakr, Caliph of the
Apostle of God, I have sent you Khalid ibn Walid at the head of my army.
I ordered him not to fight anyone or to kill anyone until he has called him to the
cause of God, so that those who respond to him and acknowledge Allah and renounce
unbelief and do good works, my envoy shall accept him and help him to do right.
But I have ordered him to fight those who deny him for that reason, so he will not
spare any one of them.
He can gain mastery over, but may burn them with fire, slaughter them by any
means, and take women and children captive, nor shall he accept from anyone
anything except Islam.
Abu Bakr unleashed the wars of apostasy.
The apostasy wars were as brutal as he threatened.
Thousands of men were slaughtered.
Apostates were burned alive.
Women and children were enslaved.
But thousands more repented of their apostasy.
Again made their profession of faith in Muhammad and agreed to obey every detail
and pay every tax demanded under Sharia law.
Thus, they saved their lives.
And Abu Bakr saved Islam.
Without the coercion of the apostasy laws and the terror of the apostasy wars,
Islam would have died with Muhammad.
But beyond that, it's likely that the apostasy laws, kill all apostates,
might be the most important tool to have kept Islam alive for over 1400 years.
Muslim Brotherhood theologian Yusuf Qaradawi explains.
If they had left apostasy, there would have been no Islam.
Islam would have ended since the death of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon
him.
So, standing before apostasy is what kept Islam alive.
Yusuf Qaradawi is a widely respected Muslim scholar in some circles.
He's a proponent of Islamic terrorism.
He's personally responsible for the death of Allied soldiers and civilians in Iraq.
And he states it clearly.
If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam would not exist today.
The apostasy laws crush dissent.
If a thinking person says, maybe Muhammad was not a real prophet of God,
or even maybe what he did to women was immoral, these statements are regarded as
apostasy.
The person who says those things has signed their own death warrant in many
parts of the world.
For example, if a Muslim leaves Islam in Saudi Arabia or in Pakistan, they can be
executed.
But worse than that, Muhammad promised a heavenly reward to anyone who kills
apostates.
So, wherever you find them, kill them, for whoever kills them shall have reward
on the day of resurrection.
As Muslim armies swept across the Middle East, conversions to Islam under threat of
death were common.
However, many of the Christians who converted to Islam came to their senses
and renounced Islam.
This repudiation of their new Islamic faith resulted in death.
One Christian's account is recorded by Muslim historians.
By God, our religion from which we have departed is better and more correct than
that which these people follow.
The religion does not stop them from shedding blood, terrifying the roads,
and seizing properties.
And they returned to their former religion.
Al-Kharit met them and said to them, Woe unto you!
Do you know the precept of Ali regarding any Christian who accepts Islam and then
reverts to Christianity?
By God, he will not hear anything they say.
He will not consider any excuse.
He will not accept any repentance.
And he will not summon them to it.
His precept regarding them is immediate, cutting off of the head when he gets a
hold of them.
He said to them, Accept Islam, but they refused.
He said to his men, When I rub my head three times, attack them and kill the
fighting men and make captive the dependents.
There was an old man among the Christians named al-Rumahis bin Mansur.
Before he was killed, he made this statement.
By God, the only error I have made since attaining reason was abandoning my
religion, the religion of truth, for yours, the religion of wickedness.
No, by God, I will not leave my religion, and I will not accept yours so long as I
live.
My quill brought him forward and cut off his head.
The person who participates in holy battles in Allah's cause, and nothing
compels him to do so except belief in Allah and his apostles, will be
recompensed by Allah either with a reward or booty if he survives,
or will be admitted to Paradise if he is killed in a battle as a martyr.
Had I not found it difficult for my followers, then I would not remain behind
any army unit going for jihad, and I would have loved to be martyred in
Allah's cause,
and then made alive, and then martyred, and then made alive, and then again
martyred in His cause.
These seductive words of Muhammad, with all of the promises, are used to
recruit young men to fight in jihad, and to commit acts of terror in which they
are sure to die while they kill non-Muslims.
These are not stories taken out of context.
Sadly, Muhammad repeatedly authorized sexual crimes against women.
He ordered the assassination of multiple people who satirized him.
He repeatedly slaughtered Jews.
He ordered the decapitation of hundreds of hostages.
Muhammad's actions provide the guidance for Muslim terrorists who want to please
Allah by following Muhammad's example.
They believe Muhammad was the ultimate prophet of God, the messenger of Allah,
and following his example is their duty.
They declare their faith every day.
There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.
And they're following the clear record of his example, found in the most respected
Muslim sources.
Muslim terrorists believe that their brutal actions are Allah's will.
Whether cutting off the heads of civilians in Iraq or Oklahoma, or murdering American
servicemen in Chattanooga, or raping women in Syria, or selling girls as sex slaves
in Iraq and Nigeria, or killing co-workers at a Christmas party in San Bernardino,
or murdering thousands in Paris or New York or London or Brussels or Madrid,
because they are mimicking what Muhammad and his companions did 1,400 years ago.
Muslim jihadists, following the example of Muhammad and his companions, are still
using terror in the hopes that non-Muslims will convert or at least submit to Sharia
law.
They believe that this battle plan is chosen by Allah, because it was
exemplified in Muhammad and his companions.
They believe this battle plan is destined to make Islam victorious over the whole
earth.
In spite of this overwhelming historic evidence, and the freshly spilt blood in
cities across the world, media personalities and Western leaders tell us
that Muhammad was a man of peace, and that Islam is a religion of peace.
ISIS responded to this absurdity with a lengthy article, Islam is the religion of
the sword, not pacifism.
The article opens with a rebuke to deceitful Muslims.
There is a slogan repeated continuously by apologetic Muslims when flirting with the
West, and that is their statement.
Islam is the religion of peace, and they mean pacifism by the word peace.
They have repeated this slogan so much to the extent that some of them allege that
Islam calls to permanent peace with infidels.
How far is their claim from the truth?
For Allah has revealed Islam to be the religion of the sword, and the evidence
for this is so profuse that only a heretic would argue otherwise.
This ISIS author gives a historic overview of Islam as founded in practice by
Muhammad, showing that Islam was and is a religion of the sword.
ISIS quotes Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law, one of his successors who repeatedly
carried out Muhammad's orders to kill people.
Ali said, in summary, Allah's messenger was sent with five swords, a sword for the
polytheists, a sword for Christians and Jews, a sword for hypocrites, a sword for
rebels, and a sword for apostates.
The Quran, Muhammad's life, the Hadith, and Sharia law are clear.
Jihad, terrorism, killing and battle, and the threat to kill anyone who leaves
Islam was and is the key means used to spread and sustain Islam since the life of
Muhammad.
In addition to acts of terror, there are other insidious plots under the
radar to seduce and then intimidate non-Muslims into submitting to Islamic
Sharia law.
How?
Infiltration, then domination.
Muslims following Muhammad's mission are steadily infiltrating the realms of
finance, banking, the judiciary, law enforcement, childcare, entertainment,
education, politics, elected office, real estate acquisitions, and even our
churches with a false ecumenical dialogue, all with the ultimate goal of dominating
every aspect of American life.
But this message is not here to integrate.
It's here to dominate.
Islam is here to dominate.
Wealthy foreign Muslims are funding this subversion with oil money.
Tens of millions of dollars have been given by the Saudis to American
universities to ensure that Islam is portrayed in a positive light and to
suppress any criticism of Muhammad or Islam.
Textbooks in American Muslim schools for children, again paid for with Islamic oil
money, teach Muslim children they can kill Christians and Jews.
Billions of dollars have been poured into America to build and fund lavish mosques
and Muslim community centers, many of which are outposts of evil, training
grounds that inspire Muslims to acts of terror that teach them to hate American
freedoms and to strive to overthrow the U .S.
Constitution.
A recent Pew poll showed that 13% of Muslims in America believe that suicide
bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are justified in
order to defend Islam from its enemies.
A CSP poll found that 25% of Muslims in America believe that violence against
Americans can be justified as a part of the global Jihad.
29% of Muslims in America believe that Americans who criticize Muhammad or Islam
should be violently punished and that over half of Muslims in America would rather be
governed by Islamic Sharia law than the U .S.
Constitution.
Sharia law would destroy freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the
freedom of the press and be the end of America as we know it.
Our oil and energy policy, our immigration policy, and our misguided trust of Islamic
militants mobilizing in our midst under the pretense of freedom of religion are a
matter of life and death.
Christians in particular must understand that Islam's goal, as clearly stated by
Muhammad, is to enslave or eliminate Christianity from the face of the earth.
Study what Muslim armies did in the Middle East.
Look at Constantinople, look at Ephesus and Galatia, the very cradle of
Christianity, and be warned.
Historic churches lie in ruins or have been stolen and forcibly turned into
mosques.
Christianity has been enslaved or wiped out.
Millions of Christian women were raped.
Their sons were kidnapped and forcibly raised to be Muslim warriors.
Others were enslaved or slaughtered.
And these crimes continue to this very day.
If we don't face the danger we're in, if we refuse to push back against Islamic
infiltration and domination, we may find that Islamic militants use our freedoms
and our laws in our country to overthrow our freedoms and laws and destroy our
country.
Total domination is the goal of Islam, as was clearly stated by Muhammad in his
own words.
I condemn those who disobey my orders to servility and humiliation.