Is this why there is large-scale violence in the Muslim World? – A Question to ask and answer My People: Are these expositions below really the reasons why there is ongoing large-scale violence in the Muslim World, even Muslim against Muslim? Fair question to ask and answer, so that ALL – Muslims and Non-Muslims – can work together to build a better world. And there you have it. By Bolaji Aluko, Nafata Bamaguje WHY MUSLIMS ARE VIOLENT “O believers make war on the infidels (non-Muslims) who dwell around you, let them find harshness in you” – Quran 9:123 “When the sacred months are over, kill the unbelievers wherever you find them” – Quran 9:5 “Fight against Christians and Jews that believe neither in Allah nor in the last day…and do not embrace the true faith” – Q 9:29 “Fighting is obligatory for you (Muslims), even if you dislike it” – Q 2:216 “Do you think you would enter Paradise before Allah knows the men who fought hard and steadfast?” – Q 3:142 “Believers take neither Jews nor Christians for friends or helpers” – Q 5:51 “Let not the believers take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers.” – Q3:28. “Our Prophet (Mohammed), ordered us to fight you (non-Muslims) till you worship Allah alone or pay us Jizyah (extortion) in submission…Whoever amongst us is killed as a martyr shall go to Paradise…and whoever survives shall become your master” – Sahih Bukhari 4:53:386 “Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…” – Sahih Muslim 19:4294 These violent injunctions in Islamic scriptures (Quran and Hadith) clearly promote aggression and hostility towards non-Muslims, and largely explain Muslim proclivity to religious violence as evident from the incessant terrorist attacks – over 13,000 since 9/11 and counting. The violent injunctions can be traced to Islam’s violent origins. Unlike the founders of other major religions who mostly relied on non-violent persuasion to win converts, Islam’s founder “prophet” Mohammed used violence to forcefully subjugate and impose his intolerant creed on Arabia: “I (Mohammed) have been commanded (by Allah) to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, and believe that I am the Messenger and in all (Islam) that I have brought. Whoever says this will save his property and life from me.” – Sahih Bukhari 9:84:5, Sahih Muslim1:31 This Hadith in which Mohammed clearly admits his motivation for violence was to forcefully enthrone Islam, is contrary to the Taqiyya (deception) propaganda Muslims would have we infidels believe – that Mohammed and early Muslims only fought in self defense. Another Hadith drives home the same point of unprovoked Muslim aggression: “Our Prophet (Mohammed), ordered us (Muslims) to fight you (non-Muslims) till you worship Allah alone or pay us Jizyah (extortion) in submission…Whoever amongst us is killed as a martyr shall go to Paradise…and whoever survives shall become your master” – Bukhari 4:53:386 The Quran particularly Surah Tauba provides further evidence that Muslims were the clear aggressors: “When the sacred months are over, kill the unbelievers wherever you find them” – Quran 9:5 “O believers make war on the infidels (non-Muslims) who dwell around you, let them find harshness in you” – Quran 9:123 “Fight against Christians and Jews that do not believe in Allah or in the last day…and do not embrace the true faith (Islam)” – Quran 9:29 “Prophet (Mohammed), make war on unbelievers and hypocrites, and deal ruthlessly with them” – Quran 66:9 No amount of Taqiyya spin can misrepresent as self defense the above Quranic verses which clearly enjoin unprovoked warfare against non-Muslims. The violent injunctions in Surah Al-Tawba (Quran Chapter 9) are particularly important because this was the last portion of the Quran dictated by Mohammed. Under the Islamic concept of abrogation (Nasikh), these violent “sword verses” (Ayat al-Sayf) in Surah 9 supersede any earlier seemingly peaceful verse. To facilitate unrestrained violence against non-Muslims, Mohammed begins the Surah by unilaterally annulling all treaties: “Freedom from obligation (is proclaimed) from Allah and His messenger toward the infidels with whom you have made treaties” – Quran 9:1 Mo’s violent doctrine was at variance with the prevailing culture of religious tolerance among pre-Islamic Arabs, hence early Muslims were initially reluctant to fight until Mo’ coerced and threatened them: “Believers, what is the matter with you, that when you are asked to fight in Allah’s cause you linger and cling to this life?…If you do not fight, Allah will punish you sternly…” – Quran9:38 “Fighting is obligatory for you (Muslims), even if you dislike it” – Quran 2:216 Mo’ further threatened that only Muslims who fought will make it to the Islamic heaven: “Do you think you (Muslims) would enter Paradise before Allah knows the men who fought hard and steadfast?” – Quran 3:142 “Allah’s Apostle (Mohammed) said, “Know that Paradise is under the shades of swords” – Sahih Bukhari 4:52:73 The initial reluctance of early Muslims to fight is further evidence they weren’t being attacked. If they were, Mo’ wouldn’t have needed to coerce and threaten them to defend themselves. Or entice them to violence with promises of heavenly rewards (Quran 4.99, 9:111). Prior to Mohammed’s Islam; pagans, Christians, Jews, Magians, Sabeans and other religious groups lived harmoniously in Arabia, and there were no religious wars. The Sirat Rasul Allah (Islam’s official biography of Mohammed) informs us there were even Christian images of Jesus and Mary in the pagan Kaaba, which Mo’ later expropriated for his new religion. The pre-Islamic Arabs offered Mohammed the same tolerant religious accommodation if he would reciprocate and respect their ancestral religious traditions. Initially Mo’ agreed, culminating in the “revelation” of the infamous satanic verses in which the Quran endorsed pagan Arab deities – Al-Lat, Uzza, and Manat. He later reneged on the agreement as the megalomanic prophet wannabe could not share the religious limelight with over 300 Arab deities and other pre-existing religious groups. Subsequently Mo’ introduced religious violence to Arabia when in Medina he embarked on forced Islamization after 12 frustrating years of almost fruitless preaching in Mecca, during which he only gathered a handful of mostly disaffected lowlifes as followers. In Mecca, Mo’ constituted himself into a societal nuisance by repeatedly insulting and denigrating pagan Arab traditions. The Meccan Arabs tolerated these insults while Mo’s rich influential sugar mummy wife and uncle were alive, but later responded with an economic boycott of Mo’ and his cult members. This pauperized them compelling Mo’ and his followers to migrate to Medina. Herein lies the so-called “expulsion” of early Muslims by supposedly intolerant pagan Arabs, which Muslim propagandists deliberately misrepresent as pagan Arabs forcibly evicting Muslims from Mecca. There was no forced ejection; on the contrary some of the pagan Meccans opposed the migration of their relatives who were Muslims. In spite of the alleged “oppression”, many of Mo’s converts were reluctant to leave Mecca, and the “prophet” had to threaten Muslims who didn’t want to migrate with hellfire: “Hell shall be their home, an evil fate; except the helpless men women and children who have no strength or means to migrate” – Quran 4:97-98 Elsewhere in the Quran, Mohammed sought to ostracize those of his followers who refused to migrate with him to Medina: “Those (Muslims) who believed but did not migrate from their homes, you (Hejira Muslims) owe them no obligation until they migrate” - Quran 8.72 The prophet wannabe even ordered killing of Muslims who refused to migrate, as he feared they might have abandoned Islam: “Do not befriend them until they migrate from their homes for the cause of Allah. If they turn renegades, seize them and kill them” – Q 4:89 Herein lies the Quranic basis for the Islamic death penalty for apostasy. These aforementioned Quranic verses clearly indicate that the Hejira migration was voluntary, hence some of the early Muslims chose not to migrate. Islamic historical traditions (Sirat, Hadith) inform us that the migration to Medina was prompted by Mo’s offer to mediate between two warring Medinan tribes – Aws and Khazraj. Thus the cock & bull yarn about a spider spinning web across the entrance of cave in which Mo’ hid from pursuing Meccans, is utter falsehood intended to glorify the “prophet” with an escape miracle, and demonize the Meccan pagans as violently intolerant in order to justify Mohammed’s subsequent violent aggression. Even today Muslims deploy similar bogus propaganda when they falsely claim Jews drove out Palestinians to establish Israel. Palestinians left voluntarily on orders of neighbouring Arabs so that the invading Arab armies would have a clear killing field for exterminating Jews without hurting their fellow Arabs in Palestine. See: palwatch.org/ main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=1102 After leaving Mecca in frustration, Mo’ and his followers relocated to Medina where he had no means of livelihood but attack and rob trade caravans. It was this banditry that provoked the first battle of Islam (Badr) when the pagan Meccans dispatched a military contingent to protect one of their trade caravans. Islamic scriptures and historical traditions document over 70 battles during Mohammed prophetic career. Most of these were Ghazawa (raids) on non-Muslim communities. Only about 2 or 3 of these, notably the battles of Uhud and Khandaq could be described as defensive. Even these limited attacks by pagan Arabs were in response to incessant Muslim raids, just as the much vilified Crusades were a response to Muslim aggression in the Christian holy land. Raids are of course offensive, not defensive military actions: The Messenger of Allah
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