Freedom of Speech: Islam Goes Apeshit over Charlie Hebdo Muhammad Cartoons Repub, Quran Eating, and Successful Critical Analysis

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Wed Mar 30 21:48:14 PDT 2022


https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/islamophobia_is_as_old_as_islam.html
All one has to do to understand why is read
the actual history of Islam and the
discriminatory teachings of Muhammad.

https://www.wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_expeditions_of_Muhammad
Muhammad ... caravan raider, murderer, rapist,
enslaver, adulterer, censorer, etc.

Muhammad ... Border crossing murderous Invader of
Palestine a region where Islam and Muhammadans had
no presence before.

https://persecution.exmuslims.org/
https://reddit.com/r/exmuslim
https://quranx.com/

CONQUER: To gain or acquire by force of arms : subjugate.
CONQUEST: The act or process of conquering.
Synonyms: dominate, overpower, subject, subjugate, subordinate.


‘Islamophobia’ Is as Old as Islam

By Raymond Ibrahim

The United Nations recently named March 15 -- also rather ominously
known as the “Ides of March” -- as “the International Day to Combat
Islamophobia.”  In doing so, they have accepted and seek to mandate
the idea that whatever fear (literally, phobia) non-Muslims have of
Islam is unfounded and irrational, and therefore must be “combatted.”

In reality, aversion to Islam is not new or something that “just
happened”; nor is it a byproduct of temporal circumstances (say,
resentment towards Muslims due to the terror strikes of 9/11).
Instead, it is something that all rational non-Muslims have felt from
the very inception of Islam in the seventh century.

Western peoples, for instance, including many of their luminaries,
have always portrayed Islam as a hostile and violent force -- often in
terms that would make today’s “Islamophobe” blush.  And that wasn’t
because Europeans were “recasting the other” to “validate their
imperial aspirations” (to use the tired terminology of Edward Said
that has long dominated academia’s treatment of Western-Muslim
interactions).  Rather, it was because Islam has always treated the
“infidel,” the non-Muslim, the same way ISIS treats the infidel:
atrociously.

According to Muslim history, in 628 AD, Muhammad summoned the Roman
(or “Byzantine”) emperor, Heraclius -- the symbolic head of “the
West,” then known as “Christendom” -- to submit to Islam; when the
emperor refused, a virulent jihad was unleashed against the Western
world.  Less than 100 years later, Islam had conquered more than
two-thirds of Christendom, and was raiding deep into France.  While
these far-reaching conquests are often allotted a sanitized sentence,
if that, in today’s textbooks, the chroniclers of the time make clear
that these were cataclysmic events that had a traumatic impact on, and
played no small part in forming, Europe proper, that is, the
unconquered portion and final bastion of Christendom.

But it wasn’t just what they personally experienced at the hands of
Muslims that developed this ancient “phobia” to Islam.  As far back as
the eighth century, Islam’s scriptures and histories -- the Koran,
hadith, sira and maghazi literature -- became available to those
Christian communities living adjacent to, or even under the authority
of, the caliphates.  Based solely on these primary sources of Islam,
Christians concluded that Muhammad was a (possibly demon possessed)
false prophet who had very obviously concocted a creed to justify the
worst depravities of man -- for dominion, plunder, cruelty and
carnality (see Sword and Scimitar for copious documentation,
especially Chapter 2).

This view prevailed for well over a millennium throughout Europe; and
it was augmented by the fact that Muslims were still, well over a
millennium after Muhammad, invading Christian territories, plundering
them, and abducting their women and children.  The United States’
first brush with Islam -- its very first war as a nation, soon after
its independence -- came by way of Muslim raids on American ships for
booty and slaves in the name of Allah.

A miniscule sampling of what Europeans thought of Islam throughout the
centuries follows:

Theophanes, important Eastern Roman chronicler (d.818):

    He [Muhammad] taught those who gave ear to him that the one
slaying the enemy -- or being slain by the enemy -- entered into
paradise [see Koran 9:111].  And he said paradise was carnal and
sensual -- orgies of eating, drinking, and women. Also, there was a
river of wine… and the women were of another sort [houris], and the
duration of sex greatly prolonged and its pleasure long-enduring
[e.g., Koran 56: 7-40, 78:31, 55:70-77].  And all sorts of other
nonsense.

Thomas Aquinas, one of Christendom’s most influential philosophers (d.1274):

    He [Muhamad] seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to
which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us… and he gave free rein
to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected, he was obeyed
by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine… Muhammad
said that he was sent in the power of his arms -- which are signs not
lacking even to robbers and tyrants [i.e., his “proof” that God was
with him is that he was able to conquer and plunder others]…  Muhammad
forced others to become his followers by the violence of his arms.

Marco Polo, world famous traveler (d.1324):

    According to their [Muslims’] doctrine, whatever is stolen or
plundered from others of a different faith, is properly taken, and the
theft is no crime; whilst those who suffer death or injury by the
hands of Christians, are considered as martyrs. If, therefore, they
were not prohibited and restrained by the [Mongol] powers who now
govern them, they would commit many outrages. These principles are
common to all Saracens.

When the Mongol khan later discovered the depraved criminality of
Achmath (or Ahmed), one of his Muslim governors, Polo writes that that
the khan’s

    attention [went] to the doctrines of the Sect of the Saracens
[i.e., Islam], which excuse every crime, yea, even murder itself, when
committed on such as are not of their religion. And seeing that this
doctrine had led the accursed Achmath and his sons to act as they did
without any sense of guilt, the Khan was led to entertain the greatest
disgust and abomination for it. So he summoned the Saracens and
prohibited their doing many things which their religion enjoined.

Alexis de Tocqueville, French political thinker and philosopher, best
known for Democracy in America (d. 1859):

    I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with
the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the
world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. As far as I can see, it is
the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim
world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social
and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I
therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of
progress in relation to paganism itself.

Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (d. 1919):

    Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of
Europe fought. If the peoples of Europe in the seventh and eighth
centuries, and on up to and including the seventeenth century, had not
possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing
superiority over the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at
this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be
exterminated. Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway,
wherever the Christians have been unable to resist them by the sword,
Christianity has ultimately disappeared.”

Winston Churchill, a leader of the Allied war effort against Hitler
during WWII (d. 1965):

    How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism [Islam] lays on
its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a
man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits,
slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and
insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet
rule or live.  A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace
and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.  The fact that
in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute
property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the
final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be
a great power among men.

Lest it seem that these and other historic charges against Islam are
mere byproducts of Christian/Western xenophobia and intolerance for
the “other,” it should be noted that many of Islam’s Western critics
regularly praised other non-Western civilizations, as well as what is
today called “moderate Muslims.”   Thus Marco Polo hailed the Brahmins
of India as being “most honorable,” possessing a “hatred for cheating
or of taking the goods of other persons.” And despite his criticisms
of the “sect of the Saracens,” that is, Islam, he referred to one
Muslim leader as governing “with justice,” and another who “showed
himself [to be] a very good lord, and made himself beloved by
everybody.”

Churchill well summed up the matter as follows: “Individual Moslems
may show splendid qualities -- but the influence of the religion
paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger
retrograde force exists in the world.”

The OIC and UN can say whatever they want; they can claim that, unlike
every other major religion, and for some odd reason, Islam is forever
and perpetually “misunderstood.”  But fear and dislike of Islam has
been the mainstream position among non-Muslims for nearly 1,400 years
-- ever since Muhammad started raiding, plundering, massacring, and
enslaving non-Muslims (“infidels”) in the name of his god.  And it is
because his followers, Muslims, continue raiding, plundering,
massacring, and enslaving “infidels” that fear and dislike of Islam --
what is called “Islamophobia” -- exists to this day.

Rather than openly address and seek to ameliorate this issue, the UN,
like all the other powers that thrive on rewriting history, if not
reality itself, seeks only to suppress and silence truth, including by
demonizing the victim, the so-called “Islamophobe.”





Volume XII: The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and the Conquest of Syria and Palestine

Translator: Yohanan Friedmann Release Date: January 1992 ISBN: 978-0-7914-0733-2
The present volume of the History of al-Tabari deals with the years 14
and 15 of the Islamic era, which correspond to A.D. 635-637. The
nascent Islamic state had just emerged victorious from the crisis that
followed the Prophet's death in 632 and had suppressed what was known
as the riddah ("apostasy") rebellion in the Arabian peninsula. Under
the leadership of 'Umar b.'al-Khattab, the second caliph, or successor
to the Prophet Muhammad, the Muslims embarked on the conquests that
would soon transform the whole of the Middle East and North Africa
into an Arab empire. Most of the present volume describes the battle
of al-Qadisiyyah, which took place on the border between the fertile
Iraqi lowlands (al-sawad) and the Arabian desert and resulted in the
decisive defeat of the Persian army. The Muslim victory at
al-Qadisiyyah heralded the downfall of the Sasanian dynasty, which had
ruled Persia and Mesopotamia since A.D., the third century; it also
paved the way for the conquest of Iraq and facilitated Islamic
expansion in Persia and beyond.

The volume also deals with the conquest of Syria and Palestine and the
Expulsion of the Byzantines from those regions. Particular attention
is devoted to the traditions related to the conquest of Jerusalem at
the hands of 'Umar b. al-Khattab, the first Muslim prayer on the
Temple Mount, and its transformation into an Islamic sanctuary.
The volume contains colorful descriptions of the various battles,
expatiations on the bravery of the Muslim warriors, and portrayals of
the futile negotiations between the parties before the beginning of
hostilities. It thus provides the reader with a fascinating insight
into the later Muslim traditions related to those crucial events of
early Islamic history.[14]


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