4321lynx
Veteran Member
It's much easier to deny the problem than accept that we are facing a situation with no good answers.
The 'rabbit hole' is definitely much deeper than what the West is prepared to admit at this time. Global Jihad is a monster with a lot of heads* which will regenerate out of the ashes again and again if the correct causes are not identified clearly and dealt with (the theological element should necessarily be introduced in the equation as a main factor, islam is not peace, 'melting pot' factor or progress catalyser and it is a huge fallacy to believe that it can be easily lumped together with Christianity and Judaism, thus as easily to be 'tamed'). No one rational denies the existence of other factors (political, economical, social and so on) but the theological factor is decisive to understand the behaviour coming out of the muslim world (lack of self-criticism etc) and the very poor assimilation of the values of Enlightenment in spite of centuries now of exposure to Modernity. Sadly people in the muslim world are not in command of islam, as a certain propaganda claim, but the other way around; the forces of progress are too weak at the moment to finally bring the Islamic world in the 21st century and make future falls toward the past unlikely (i'm afraid the muslim communities in the West, especially Europe, are not an exception).
*some may be incapable to attack the non muslim world at the moment (like ISIS or even some 'peaceful' 'moderate friends' of the West) but they won't hesitate to do that once in a strong position, even in the absence of any provocation
- Global Jihad, chapter 5The classical manual of the Hanafi school of law, the Hedaya, clearly states that jihad is to be fought against infidels even if they are not the aggressors:
"The destruction of the sword is incurred by infidels, although they be not the first aggressors, as appears from various passages in the sacred writings which are generally received to this effect."193
The Shafi‘i manual, Reliance of the Traveller, states:
"The caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax… while remaining in their ancestral religion)… The caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslim…"194
The vast majority of contemporary Muslim scholars hold to his classical Islamic theory of war, a theory which presumes that war against non-Muslims would be essentially unrestricted. This was the policy of the Islamic empire under which the theory developed.
in fact aggressive jihad was common along the history of islam and the medieval Islamic law permitting it is still largely with us, any parts overlooked at the moment can be easily reactivated upon the needs of muslims (ISIS actions are by no means un-Islamic)
YESSS!!!
AGREE 100%
And all Muslims know it even if they protest to the contrary. Those Muslims who say it is un-Islamic are either
1.indulging in a-historic wishful-thinking, hoping "it will go away",
or
2.deliberately misleading the gullible (and wishful-thinking) general Infidel public.
Infidel world leaders preaching that Islam is a peaceful religion are either ignorant of history or wish to hide the truth from their people, not wanting to precipitate anti-Muslim sentiment among the public. We all know what 'we' ( the Europeans; white Americans in North, Central or South America; brown Hindoos etc) are capable of in the way of religious or racist violent actions or reactions. Not a pretty picture.