The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (40 page)

18. Sayyid Abul A’la Maududi [here, Mawdudi],
Towards Understanding the Qur’an
, Zafar Ishaq Ansari, translator (The Islamic Foundation, revised edition, Vol. 3, 1999), 202.

Chapter 10:

Why the Crusades Were Called

1. Amin Maalouf,
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
(New York: Schocken Books, 1984), xvi.

2. John Esposito,
Islam: The Straight Path
, third edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 58.

3. Bukhari, vol. 4, book 56, no. 2941.

4. Esposito, 58.

5. Quoted in Bat Y’eor,
The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam
(Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996), 44.

6. Bukhari, vol. 1, book 2, no. 36.

7. Moshe Gil,
A History of Palestine 634–1099
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 473–76. To his credit, Caliph al-Muqtadir did respond to the 923 persecutions by ordering the church rebuilt.

8. Steven Runciman,
A History of the Crusades, Volume I
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951), 30–32.

9. Carole Hillenbrand,
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
(Oxford: Routledge, 2000), 101.

10. Runciman, 33.

11. Gil, 376.

12. Runciman, 35–36; Hillenbrand, 16–17; Jonathan Riley-Smith,
The Crusades: A Short History
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987), 44.

13. Bernard Lewis,
The Assassins
(New York: Basic Books, 2002), 33.

14. Runciman, 36.

15. Ibid., 49.

16. Gil, 412.

17. Pope Urban II, “Speech at Council of Clermont, 1095, according to Fulcher of Chartres,” quoted in Bongars,
Gesta Dei per Francos
, 1, 382 ff., trans. in Oliver J. Thatcher, and Edgar Holmes McNeal, eds.,
A Source Book for Medieval History
(New York: Scribners, 1905), 513–17. Reprinted at
Medieval Sourcebook
, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/urban2-fulcher.html.

18.
‘Umdat al-Salik
, o9.1.

19. Quoted in Hillenbrand, 71.20. Ibn Taymiyya, “The Religious and Moral Doctrine of Jihad,” in Rudolph Peters,
Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam: A Reader
(Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1996), 53.

21. Shariah Council of State Defense Council “Majlis al-Shura” of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, “Jihad And Its Solution Today,”
Jihad Today
, no. 7. Reprinted at http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2003/11/26/2028.shtml, November 26, 2003.

22. Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), “Jihad Against the U.S.: Al-Azhar’s Conflicting Fatwas,” MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 480, March 16, 2003. www.memri.org.

23. Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), “Islamist Leader in London: No Universal Jihad As Long As There Is No Caliphate,” MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 435, October 30, 2002. www.memri.org.

24. Tawfiq Tabib, “Interview with Sheikh al-Mujahideen Abu Abdel Aziz,”
Al-Sirat Al-Mustaqeem
(The Straight Path), August 1994. Reprinted at http://www.seprin.com/laden/barbaros.html.

25. Stephen Graham, “Muslim Militants From Europe Drawn to Iraq,” Associated Press, November 3, 2003.

26. James Harvey Robinson, ed.,
Readings in European History: Vol. I
(Boston, MA: Ginn and Co., 1904), 312–16. Reprinted at
Medieval Sourcebook
, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/urban2a.html.

27. Ibid.

28. Ibid.

29. Thomas Madden,
The New Concise History of the Crusades
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 19–20.

30. Ibid., 12.

31. Quoted in August C. Krey,
The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants
, (Princeton, NJ: 1921), 280–81. Reprinted at Medieval Sourcebook, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulcher-cde.html.

32. Jonathan Riley-Smith,
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 116.

33. Quoted in Maalouf,
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
, p. 263.

Chapter 11:

The Crusades: Myth and Reality

1. Quoted in August C. Krey,
The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants
(Princeton, NJ: 1921), 280–81. Reprinted at Medieval Sourcebook, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulcher-cde.html.

2. R. G. D. Laffan, ed. and trans.,
Select Documents of European History 800–1492
, volume I, Henry Holt, 1929. See also “The Crusaders Capture Jerusalem, 1099,” EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2000).

3. Archbishop Daimbert, Duke Godfrey, and Count Raymond, “Letter to Pope Paschal II, September, 1099,” in Colman J. Barry, ed.,
Readings In Church History
(Christian Classics, 1985), 328.

4. Moshe Gil,
A History of Palestine 634–1099
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 827.

5. Francesco Gabrieli, ed. and trans.,
Arab Historians of the Crusades
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1957), 11.

6. Bill Clinton, “Remarks as delivered by President William Jefferson Clinton, Georgetown University, November 7, 2001.” Georgetown University Office of Protocol and Events, www.georgetown.edu.

7. Amin Maalouf,
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
(New York: Schocken Books, 1984), xvi.

8. Warren Carroll,
The Building of Christendom
(Front Royal, VA: Christendom College Press, 1987), 545.

9. For the Crusaders reneging, see Gil, 827. For their allowing some to leave, see Thomas F. Madden,
The New Concise History of the Crusades
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 34.

10. Quoted in Hillenbrand,
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
(Oxford: Routledge, 2000), 64–65.

11. Quoted in Madden, 181–82.

12. Steven Runciman,
The Fall of Constantinople 1453
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965), 145.

13. Maalouf, 179.

14. Madden, 74.

15. Quoted in ibid., 76.

16. Ibid., 78.

17. Ibid., 54.

18. Jonathan Riley-Smith,
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 116.

19. Hilaire Belloc,
The Crusades: The World’s Debate
(Rockford, IL: Tan, 1992), 248–50.

20. Alan Cooperman, “For Victims, Strong Words Were Not Enough,”
Washington Post
, April 3, 2005.

21. Pope John Paul II, “Homily of the Holy Father: ‘Day of Pardon,’” March 12, 2000. http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/2000/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20000312_pardon_en.html.

Chapter 12:

What the Crusades Accomplished—And What They Didn’t

1. Steven Runciman,
A History of the Crusades
, Volume III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951), 398–402.

2. Bernard Lewis,
The Assassins
(New York: Basic Books, 1967), 5. For the Crusades as rape, see Amin Maalouf,
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
(New York: Schocken, 1989), 266.

3. Godfrey Goodwin,
The Janissaries
(London: Saqi Books, 1997), 34.

4. Mufti Ebrahim Desai, Ask the Imam Question 1394, “The west is often criticised by Muslims for many reasons, such as allowing women go to work,” October 25, 2000. http://islam.tc/ask-imam/view.php?q=1394.

5. Paul Fregosi,
Jihad
(New York: Prometheus Books, 1998), 225.

6. Beatrice Forbes Manz,
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 17.

Chapter 13:

What If the Crusades Had Never Happened?

1. Amin Maalouf,
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
(New York: Schocken, 1989), 266.

2. Napier Malcolm,
Five Years in a Persian Town
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1905), 45–50. Cited in Andrew G. Bostom, “The Islamization of Europe,” FrontPageMagazine.com, December 31, 2004.

3. From Sistani’s website, www.sistani.org.

4.
‘Umdat al-Salik
, o11.5(6).

5. “Fundamentalists vow to kill female students without head cover,”
AsiaNews
, October 22, 2004.

6. “Iraqi Columnist: ‘It Is Difficult to Recall a Period in Which Christian Arabs Were in Greater Danger Than Today,’” Middle East Media Research Institute, Special Dispatch No. 789, September 24, 2004.

7. E. A. Wallis Budge, trans.,
The Monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China
, (The Religious Tract Society, 1928). Reprinted at http://www.aina.org/books/mokk/mokk.htm#c72.

Chapter 14:

Islam and Christianity: Equivalent Traditions?

1. Alan Riding, “The Crusades as a Lesson in Harmony?”
New York Times
, April 24, 2005.

2. Charlotte Edwardes, “Historians say film ‘distorts’ Crusades,”
London Sunday Telegraph
, January 18, 2004.

3. Hani Ramadan, “La charia incomprise,”
Le Monde
, September 10, 2002. For a typical blasphemy killing in Pakistan, see “Man Accused of Blasphemy Shot Dead,” Reuters, April 20, 2005.

4.
Sahih Bukhari
, vol. 1, book 4, no. 233.5. “Lawyer Convicted of Helping Terrorists,” Associated Press, February 10, 2005.

6. David A. Yeagley, “What’s Up With White Women?” FrontPageMagazine.com, May 18, 2001.

Chapter 15:

The Jihad Continues

1. Quoted in Carole Hillenbrand,
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
(Oxford: Routledge, 2000), 165.

2. Middle East Media Research Institute, “Al-Qa’ida Internet Magazine Sawt Al-Jihad Calls to Intensify Fighting During Ramadan—the Month of Jihad,” Special Dispatch No. 804, October 22, 2004. www.memri.org.

3. Middle East Media Research Institute, “Egyptian Cleric: Ramadan the month of Jihad,” Special Dispatch No. 308, December 5, 2001. www.memri.org.

4. “Full text: bin Laden’s ‘letter to America,’”
Guardian
, November 24, 2002.

5. Hizb ut-Tahrir, “The Khilafah was destroyed in Turkey 79 years ago; so let the Righteous Khilafah be declared again in Turkey,” www.islamicstate.org, February 22, 2003.

6. Neil MacFarquhar, “Rising Tide of Islamic Militants See Iraq as Ultimate Battlefield,”
New York Times
, August 13, 2003.

7. Brynjar Lia,
The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt
(Ithaca, NY: Ithaca Press, 1998), 28.

8. Syed Abul Ala Maududi, “Jihad in Islam,” Address at the Town Hall, Lahore, April 13, 1939. Reprinted at http://host06.ipowerweb.com/~ymofmdc/books/jihadinislam/.

9. Craig Pyes, Josh Meyer, and William C. Rempel, “Officials Reveal Bin Laden Plan,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 18, 2002.

10. Daniel Simpson, “British Moslem radicals urge Islamic fightback,” Reuters, March 6, 1999.

11. Steve Zwick, “The Thinker,” in “The Many Faces of Islam,”
Time Europe
, December 16, 2002.

12. Lisa Gardiner, “American Muslim leader urges faithful to spread Islam’s message,”
San Ramon Valley Herald
, July 4, 1998.

13. Art Moore, “Should Muslim Quran be USA’s top authority?” WorldNetDaily.com, May 1, 2003.

14. John Perazzo, “Hamas and Hizzoner,” FrontPageMagazine.com, March 5, 2003.

15. See the
Dallas News
blog, December 17, 2004.

16. Quoted in Amir Taheri,
Holy Terror: Inside the World of Islamic Terrorism
(New York: Adler & Adler, 1987), 241–43.

17. Quoted in Amir Taheri,
The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution
(New York: Adler and Adler, 1986), 20, 45.

18. Daniel Pipes, “Advancing U.S. National Interests Through Effective Counterterrorism,” Testimony presented to Secretary’s Open Forum, Department of State, January 30, 2002. www.danielpipes.org.

19. “O’Reilly Factor Flash,” August 5, 2004, http://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/general/genericpage.jsp?pageID=368.

20. William Glaberson, “Defense in Terror Trial Paints a Rosier Picture of ‘Jihad,’”
New York Times
, February 25, 2005.

21. Bukhari, vol. 1, book 2, no. 25. The transliterated Arabic of the Muslim confession of faith has been omitted from this translation for ease of reading. The same statement is repeated in Bukhari, vol. 1, book 8, no. 392; vol. 4, book 56, no. 2946; vol. 9, book 88, no. 6924; and vol. 9, book 96, nos. 7284–7285, as well as in other hadith collections.

22. Kathy Gannon, “Radical Islamic Group Growing in Asia,” Associated Press, May 1, 2005.

23. Khalid A-H Ansari, “65% Pakistanis support Osama, says report,”
Mid-Day
, March 27, 2004.

24. Qutb,
Milestones
(New Delhi: Islamic Book Service, 2002), 10–11.

25. Bernard Lewis,
The Assassins
(New York: Basic Books, 1967), 35.

26. Ibid., 58.

Chapter 16:

“Islamophobia” and Today’s Ideological Jihad

1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948. http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html.

2. The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, August 5, 1990. http://www.religlaw.org/interdocs/docs/cairohrislam1990.htm.

3. Stephen Schwartz, “The ‘Islamophobes’ That Aren’t,” TechCentralStation.com, April 28, 2005.

4. “Atheist Becomes Theist: Exclusive Interview with Former Atheist Antony Flew,”
Philosophia Christi
, Winter 2004.