The Islamic Antichrist (22 page)

In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the [Muslim] mission and [the obligation to] convert everybody to Islam either
by persuasion or by force
. Therefore, the caliphate [spiritual], the royal [government and military] authority are united in Islam, so that the person in charge can devote the available strength to both of them at the same time.
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(emphasis mine)

In his book
Jurisprudence in Muhammad’s Biography
, the renowned Egyptian scholar from Al-Azhar University, Dr. Muhammad Sa’id Ramadan al-Buti, writes that offensive—not defensive—war is the “noblest Holy War” within Islam:

The Holy War [Islamic jihad], as it is known in Islamic jurisprudence,
is basically an offensive war
. This is the duty of Muslims in every age when the needed military power becomes available to them. This is the phase in which the meaning of Holy War has taken its final form. Thus the apostle of Allah said: “I was commanded to fight the people until they believe in Allah and his messages…”
The concept of Holy War
[Jihad]
in Islam does not take into consideration whether defensive or an offensive war
. Its goal is the exaltation of the Word of Allah and the construction of Islamic society and the establishment of Allah’s Kingdom on Earth
regardless of the means
. The means would be offensive warfare. In this case, it is the apex,
the noblest Holy War
.
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(emphasis mine)

According to the
Encyclopedia of Islam
, “The fight is obligatory even when the unbelievers have not started it.”
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The concept of jihad in Islam is to literally attack unbelievers for the purpose of converting them to Islam “by persuasion or by force,” “even when they have not started it.”

GLOBAL DOMINATION

Born in 1905, Mawlana Sayid Abul Ala Mawdudi was an Islamic scholar from the Indian subcontinent. His sermons (
khutbat
) and writings are world renowned, and he is viewed throughout the Islamic world as one of Islam’s greatest scholars. Here is what he had to say about Islam and global domination:

Islam is not a normal religion like the other religions in the world, and Muslim nations are not like normal nations. Muslim nations are very special because they have a command from Allah to
rule the entire world and to be over every nation in the world
.
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(emphasis mine)

Mawdudi explains Islam’s goals and purpose:

Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn’t look for a nation to be in a better condition than another nation. Islam doesn’t care about the land or who owns the land. The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam. Any nation or power that gets in the way of that goal, Islam will fight and destroy. In order to fulfill that goal, Islam can use every power available every way it can be used to bring worldwide revolution. This is Jihad.
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We have seen what some of Islam’s most respected scholars have said about jihad and Islam’s goal of global domination. Their viewpoint is undeniably clear. But what do the modern Western Muslim leaders have to say about this subject?

MODERN WESTERN MUSLIMS ON THE ISLAMIC GOAL OF
WORLD DOMINATION

Aduallah al-Araby, in his book
The Islamization of America
, cites a very frightening letter from one Catholic archbishop to the Pope. In this open letter to the Pope, the Archbishop of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey, the Reverend Guiseppe Germano Barnardini, spoke of a recent gathering of Christians and Muslims for the
purpose of interfaith dialogue. An excerpt from his letter recounts that during the meeting, an authoritative Muslim stood up and spoke very calmly and assuredly: “Thanks to your democratic laws, we will invade you. Thanks to our religious laws, we will dominate you.”
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If you go to the Web site of almost any mosque in the United States, you will invariably see a link to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR, as it is called, is a Washington-based Islamic group that likes to present itself as a moderate Islamic civil rights group. “We are similar to a Muslim NAACP,” says spokesman Ibrahim Hooper. “Since its founding in 1994, CAIR has been garnering sizeable donations, invitations to the White House, respectful media citations, and a serious hearing by corporations.”
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Yet, according to Omar Ahmed, chairman of the board of CAIR:

Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur’an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.
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This is the same Omar Ahmed who tore into the Reverend Franklin Graham for calling Islam “an evil religion.” Mr. Ahmed addressed Graham in an open statement:

Learn more about Islam and Muslims before you repeat your erroneous and divisive statements about one of the three great Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Such statements only sow animosity and mistrust among Americans. As a religious leader you should instead work to rebuild our national foundation instead of trying to tear it down.
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Perhaps Reverend Graham was more in touch with the true totalitarian doctrines of Islam than Mr. Ahmed realized. Perhaps Mr. Graham had read Mr. Ahmed’s statement regarding Islam’s goal of domination in America and abroad when he made his statement. In any case, through these two
statements, it is easy to see the double-speak displayed by Mr. Ahmed and many like him. When speaking privately to Muslims, Mr. Ahmed speaks of Islam as the only valid religion with a goal to take over America, but when addressing the media, he speaks of “the three great Abrahamic religions” and accuses Mr. Graham of being “divisive.”

Daniel Pipes, a scholar of militant Islam and director of the Middle East Forum, points out the case of one prominent American Muslim’s open aspirations to take over America. Pipes introduces one Isamil Al-Faruqi.

Ismail Al-Faruqi a Palestinian immigrant who founded the International Institute of Islamic Thought and taught for many years at Temple University in Philadelphia. “Nothing could be greater,” Al-Faruqi wrote in the early 1980s, “than this youthful, vigorous, and rich continent [of North America] turning away from its past evil and marching forward under the banner of
Allahu Akbar
[Allah is great].”
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In England and throughout Europe, Islam has progressed in strength far beyond that of Islam in America. Therefore, in such a context, we see aggressive statements made far more openly. As early as 1989, Europeans were shocked to see thousands of Muslims openly protest in the streets of Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, carrying signs with the provocative slogan: “Islam—our religion today, your religion tomorrow.”
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Dated June 15, 1990,
The Muslim Manifesto
, published by the late Dr. Kalim Siddiqui, then the head of the Muslim Institute (now the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain), stated:

Jihad
is a basic requirement of Islam
and living in Britain or having British nationality by birth or naturalisation does not absolve the Muslim from his or her duty to participate in Jihad.
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(emphasis mine)

Dr. Siddiqui does not exclude Britain from the places where “armed struggle” is necessary. Jihad is obligatory everywhere.
And as time has passed, the call to jihad in Europe has progressed to the point where radical Muslim leaders proclaim it openly in the streets. From the
New York Times
, April 26, 2004, we read:

The call to jihad is rising in the streets of Europe…. In this former industrial town north of London, a small group of young Britons…say they would like to see Prime Minister Tony Blair dead or deposed and an Islamic flag hanging outside No. 10 Downing Street. They swear allegiance to Osama bin Laden and his goal of toppling Western democracies to establish an Islamic superstate under
shariah
law, like Afghanistan under the Taliban. They call the Sept. 11 hijackers the “Magnificent 19” and regard the Madrid train bombings as a clever way to drive a wedge into Europe. Their leader, Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammad, spoke of his adherence to Osama bin Laden. If Europe fails to heed Mr. bin Laden’s offer of a truce—provided that all foreign troops are withdrawn from Iraq in three months—Muslims will no longer be restrained from attacking the Western countries that play host to them, the
sheik
said. “All Muslims of the West will be obliged,” he said, to “become his sword” in a new battle. Europeans take heed, he added, saying, “It is foolish to fight people who want death—that is what they are looking for”…. And he warned Western leaders, “You may kill bin Laden, but the phenomenon, you cannot kill it—you cannot destroy it. Our Muslim brothers from abroad will come one day and conquer here and then we will live under Islam in dignity,” he said.
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Dr. Siddiqui and Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammad are far from alone in their call for radical Islamic jihad against their homes in Europe:

Abu Hamza, the cleric accused of tutoring Richard Reid before he tried to blow up a Paris-to-Miami jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoe, urged a crowd of two hundred outside his former Finsbury Park mosque to embrace death and the “culture of martyrdom.”
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It is not surprising then, that in the war with Afghanistan, American forces captured at least three British citizens. Or that in
April of 2003, two British citizens conducted a suicide bombing that killed three others at a café in Tel Aviv. And when Muslim fanatics beheaded
Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, the world learned that Omar Sheik Saeed, a well-educated native of Britain once described as “a perfect Englishman,” had transformed into a radical Muslim, eventually masterminding the kidnapping and videotaped beheading of Pearl. Should we really be surprised? Should we be stunned that Islam has this effect on people? If prominent Muslim leaders in Europe openly praise Osama bin Laden and call for jihad and “martyrdom,” then why should we be taken aback when impressionable young Muslims answer this call all over the world? While fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudi Arabians, will the world be shocked when British Muslims carry out such an act? How would the West have reacted if the “black boxes” salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center had contained recordings of young men yelling “
Allahu Akhbar
!” in distinctly British or American accents?

CONCLUSION

Muslims in the West regularly refer to Islam as the “religion of peace,” yet this so-called religion of peace is responsible for over 90 percent of all fighting presently occurring in the world. Think about that fact. Islam motivates the vast majority of world terrorism, violence, and war. There are about four hundred recognized terrorist groups in the world. Over 90 percent of these are radical Islamic terrorist groups. Over 90 percent of the current world fighting involves Islamist terror movements.
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The endless goal of moderate Muslim apologists is to make the claim that the radical terrorist groups are not behaving in an Islamic way. While I have no doubt that many moderate Muslims have a strong disdain for the murderous behavior of many of the most violent groups, the terrorists are actually carrying out a very legitimate aspect of Islam as defined by Islam’s texts, scholars, and
representatives. They indeed behave in an Islamic way. They are behaving like Muhammad and his successors. While it is often said that the terrorists have “hijacked” Islam, judging by what Islam really teaches, in reality it is the so-called moderate Muslims who are misrepresenting the true teachings of Islam.

When we look at the growth rates of Islam combined with the concept of jihad and the growing popularity of its most radical interpretation, even in the West, the concept of a future Islamofascist world dictator becomes a genuine possibility. Based on trends and statistics alone, it’s not a stretch to see the possibility of this reality within this century. The Bible teaches that in the future a man will arise whose sole driving goal will be to achieve complete world domination through his political-military-religious empire. Islam has this very same goal inherent in its most core doctrines. And today, as we hear the call to jihad trumpeted ever louder by radical Muslim leaders all over the world, Islam moves ever so much closer to achieving that goal.

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