Here’s a timely reminder from Michael Copeland about the nature of the Koran.
Koran: The Book of Kill Them
by Michael Copeland
The Koran, Islam’s book, is “dripping with murderous levels of hatred”, as a critic put it. “Kill them,” it commands, of non-Muslims, kafirs, “Kill them wherever you find them.” (2:191, 9:5) “Between us [Muslims] and you enmity and hatred forever.” (60:4) “When you meet the kafirs strike the necks.” (47:4) Kafirs are “filthy” (9:28), “the vilest of beasts” (8:55), “a clear enemy to you” (4:101): “Do not take them as allies.” (4:89) “Let them find harshness in you” (9:123); “Fight the unbelievers until they pay the jizya [extortion tax] … in a state of subjection.” (9:29) Muslims are “the best of peoples raised up for mankind” (3:110), “merciful to each other, ruthless to the kafir.” (48:29)
These are not quaint Old-Testament-type exhortations from their historical time, like “Slaughter the Amalekites and Hittites.” The Koran, all of it, forms part of Islamic law. These are current instructions of Islamic law. “Muslims must kill kafirs wherever they are unless they convert.” said Ali Gomaa, the Grand Mufti of Egypt. “Islam says: kill all of the kafirs. Jihad stands for killing all kafirs. Prophet had sword to kill people,” thundered Ayatollah Khomeini. “Enmity and hate shall forever reign between us,” wrote Osama bin Laden. “Jews and Christians are filthy. Their lives and property can be taken by the Muslims in jihad,” preached Yasir Qadhi in Tennessee. “Allah, strike the Jews and… the Christians, Allah, count them and kill them to the last one” — Al-Aqsa TV (palwatch.org 2010-12-03).
The Koran is promoted as “valid from eternity to eternity,” explains Sam Solomon, a former professor of Islamic law. Its instructions are “universal and trans-time,” says Ahmed Saad, the imam of North London Central Mosque. “None may change his words,” says Koran 18:27. Denying any verse instantly makes a Muslim an apostate, one who has left Islam, a kafir. The punishment is death, with a sinister twist: the killing may be performed vigilante-style by anyone. There is no penalty, “since it is killing someone who deserves to die.” (Manual of Islamic Law, Reliance of the Traveller, o8.4) Islam is a tyranny held in place by fear. “If they had gotten rid of the punishment for apostasy Islam would not exist today”, said the famed scholar and broadcaster Yusuf al Qaradawi.
For kafirs the Koran is the Book of Kill Them, the Book of Enmity and Hatred. Islam is opposed to Christianity and Judaism, in fact all other religions, and atheism: in Saudi Arabia atheists are beheaded. Islam is much more than prayers: it is a system of governance, in Arabic a deen, with its own body of laws. “Islam is the perfect system for all mankind, Man-made laws go to Hell,” say the placards, “Ban Democracy, Implement Islam!, Islam will dominate.” Mullah Krekar explained, “Islam is not like Christianity. Our Islam is political.” Islam’s deen opposes democracy, and indeed any kind of governance other than Islamic. “Fight unbelievers”, says 8:39 “until all the deen is for Allah.” Islam has to dominate: it must be spread “by persuasion or by force” (Ibn Khaldun) to form a global Caliphate. “If anyone desire a deen other than Islam never will it be accepted of him,” says Koran 3:85.
It is no surprise that this book is not liked by kafirs: they are the target of all these lethal commands in Islam’s “state of permanent hostility” (Karl Marx). There is no mistaking the repeated message — murderous intolerance, apartheid, and political supremacism.
Reference: corpus.quran.com — parallel translations, Word by Word feature, etc.
For previous essays by Michael Copeland, see the Michael Copeland Archives.
OK, so why, or how, does Islam enjoy the “status” of religion in this country? If the Qur’an mandates the murder of all those who are not Dar al-salam, then all those who are Muslim are murderers or accomplices to murder. Either way, it’s the gas chamber or death row. So why isn’t the law being enforced??
Re: “Either way, it’s the gas chamber or death row. So why isn’t the law being enforced??”
The widespread view that Islam is “one of the great monotheistic religions of the world,” has really only taken hold over the last century or so in the West. Which also coincides roughly with the discovery and start of large scale development of oil in the Arab kingdoms of the Middle East, but I digress…
If you look at what was said and thought about Islam by many of the great moral/religious leaders, thinkers and statesmen of the golden age of the West, they often expressed the view that Islam was a “religion” or creed utterly unlike the other major religious faiths of the world, in particular those seen most often in the West, such as Judaism and Christianity.
Of course, these thoughts and words were expressed in a time when European civilization was still largely Christian – and unapologetically so.
In the United States during and shortly after its founding, some of the Founding Fathers – including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and John Quincy Adams – debated the possibility of prohibiting the practice of Islam in the new nation via constitutional amendment or other means, but they ultimately did not pursue the idea. Probably because they could never imagine that Islam would later be a force with which to be reckoned in the new republic.
Strictly-speaking, Islam is not just a religion, but also a complete way of life, to include politics, military affairs and other aspects. It is totalitarian in that virtually nothing in a Muslim society lies outside the scope of Islam and sharia law themselves.
It is therefore highly-problematical that Islam enjoys the same legal protections as other more-narrowly defined faiths or creeds, for it is not like Christianity or Buddhism or Hinduism, to name a few examples.
Various westerners have speculated and explored the idea of a reformation of Islam which would bring it into the modern world and allow it to shed its frankly aggressive and other unsavory aspects.
However, these individuals are indulging in a fantasy if the real world is any indication. “Reform” of Islam is punished very severely indeed if it departs too much from the word of the Koran, which is considered inviolate, unchangeable and perfect.
Indeed, those who go too far with such ideas in Islamic societies may find themselves under a fatwa of death or death sentence. Just ask Salman Rushdie, who had to go into hiding after penning “The Satanic Verses” more than thirty years ago.
It is a fair question to ask why such a warlike and aggressive creed is permitted to establish such a foothold in the West and once there, tolerated to such an extravagant extent. By now, it is beyond obvious that the Muslims flooding into Europe are intent upon waging jihad against their ancient enemies in the formerly Christian world. And the ruling class within Europe is doing little or nothing to stop them. That fact alone is very illuminating indeed, is it not?
Islam is NOT a religion at all. It is a political ideology.
Islam is devil worship.
The answer to your question is that satan is in control of the world, until Jesus Christ returns to put paid to Satan and his followers.
Like all other religions, islam is a counterfeit religion and their god is satan. Unfortunately, very few of satan’s followers are aware of who is their god.
They want the Mu$lim vote and cash.
The author, Michael Copeland, is to be commended for his intellectual honesty and his willingness to speak the truth about Islam, as well as for his courage. Not enough westerners do that.
In fact, the typical “expert” on Islam seen on mainstream media newscasts and in the electronic and print press, is a talking head whose academic or other credentials may appear valid and even impressive, but whose viewpoint almost invariably papers over the unsavory aspects of Islam in favor of the rose-colored glasses, P.C.view that Islam itself isn’t responsible for these violent and bloody acts. And so on and so forth.
These pseudo-experts almost never speak in terms of the foundational texts of Islam, namely the Koran, the Hadiths and the Sira – which are, respectively, the holy book of Islam, the traditions of Mohammed, and the life of Mohammed. The whole of sharia law and virtually all else within Islam ultimately originates with these three foundational sources.
The ulema or “wise old men” at al-Azar University in Cairo, Egypt, which has been the seat of Islamic jurisprudence and thought for more than a thousand years, also derive their knowledge and authority from these texts. And it is these individuals who are the last word or final source in resolving theological, legal and other such disputes arising from interpretation of sharia law, Islamic custom and much else.
There are various interpretations and nuances which arise between the different sects of Islam, such as Sunni and Shite, and also on the basis of nationality and other variables – but across the Islamic world from the Sudan to Indonesia these same three sources – the Koran, Hadith and Sira – are authoritative.
And since these sources are authoritative, and they call for eternal jihad against the infidels – eternal war against all of those who do not profess the shahada or oath of Islam – there is no way to tell the truth about Islam and what it really is without making reference to them.
As former U.S. Army Major Stephen Coughlin exposes so clearly in his book, “Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad,” it is a lie of historical proportions that the members of groups like al-Quada and ISIS are on the “fringe” of Islam or aren’t even really Muslims at all. The truth is precisely the opposite: they are living in close accord with the words and actions of their prophet in acting and believing as they do.
Who is the man with his mouth wide open in the top picture? I see him in many articles about jihad. Thank you Michael for reminding us who our enemy is.
I don’t know who he is. I just found a couple of pictures of him on the Internet.
Inshallah ask Brennan LOL
Islam is a conquest strategy camouflaged as a religion to give it an edge against naive suckers in target countries.
Memed:
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It is a religion ,like past cults of that had cannibalism, headhunting , throwing captured children into firepits for the moon ,god ,or sun god, it should not be tolerated or accepted in the 20th never mind the 21 century. This religion makes the Nazis in the 1930s look mild and calm in their beliefs. The main reason the left loves and protects this cult is because it hates western law,customs ,and traditions . The left,s sexual confused and the blue hair girls will be the first to be gang raped ,and thrown off roof tops ,or hung by canes , or thrown into firepits if Islamic law became the law of the land. We see this is the 21 century in Islamic ruled countries in the middle east today. We see this in some African countries under Islamic influence. What part of insane “tolerance” for this cult do they not understand? Keep importing these violent rejects into your home to rob ,rape and kill you that is what allah the moon god commands them to do in their holy book.
“blue haired girls”? Get your priorities sorted.
Sorry if I hurt blue haired girl,s or boy, s or fill in the blank feelings ,Islam followers priorities are they hate you and will kill you. The woke idiots and the elite who really run the world keep importing these problems to the western world. Have a nice day
Britain, the land of the O’s. The homos, lesbos and weirdos are the first they put to the sword. get your GD priorities straight, no wonder you Brits are so bloody toothless these days.
The late French historian and sociologist Alain Besançon (a serious French intellectual, who was Director of Studies at EHSS, one of France’s elite grandes écoles) wrote an article for Commentary around 20 years ago which he concluded like this:
“Does the honor paid [by Islam] to Jesus and Mary suggest, from the Christian point of view, that Islam is “better” than Judaism, which refuses to pay such honor to the Holy Family? That would seem to be the conclusion of those who, from this perspective, weigh Judaism and Islam in the balance, with the advantage going to Islam. But no serious Christian can seriously entertain such an idea, and the Catholic Church has historically condemned it—for good reason. To accept it would mean giving up the Church’s claimed descent from Abraham and from the prophets of Israel; it would mean giving up the Davidic genealogy of the Christian messiah; it would mean cutting Christianity off from its sources and its history. The Gospel would then become, in effect, another Qur’an.”
“Of all the contemporary expressions hinting at a consanguinity between the Qur’an and the Bible, the falsest may be “religions of the Book.” This phrase is itself of Islamic origin, but it has nothing to do with what it is widely and misleadingly supposed to suggest. It refers, rather, to a special legal category, “people of the Book,” that provided an exception for Christians and Jews to the general rule decreeing death or slavery for those who refused to convert to Islam. Instead, these groups (as well as two other peoples in possession of a scripture, namely Sabians and Zoroastrians) were allowed to retain their property and to continue to reside in Muslim lands with the second-class status of dhimmi.
“That such expressions can be so lightly employed is a sign that elements of the Christian world are no longer capable of distinguishing clearly between their own religion and Islam. Are we returning to the times of John of Damascus, when it was possible to entertain the deluded thought that Islam might itself be a form of Christianity? It is not inconceivable. History records more than one instance of a Christian church unconsciously drifting toward Islam when it does not know any longer what it believes in, or why. This was precisely the fate of the Monophysites in Egypt, the Nestorians in Syria, the Donatists in North Africa, the Arians in Spain.
Islam is not some primitive, simplistic, unworked-out religion. It is neither a “religion of camel drivers” nor a religion of soft and malleable borders. To the contrary, it is an extremely strong religion, with a specific and highly crystallized conception of the relation between man and God. That conception is no less coherent than the Jewish and Christian conceptions; but it is quite opposed to them. Although some Christians may imagine that, because Muslims worship the common God of Israel, Islam and Christianity are closer than either is to paganism, this is not the case. In fact, Christianity and Islam are paradoxically but radically separated by the same God.
“It follows that the effort to engage in “dialogue” with Muslims has been set on a mistaken course. The early Church fathers deemed the works of Virgil and Plato a preparatio evangelica—preparation for the Gospel, for the truth of Christianity. The Qur’an is neither a preparation for biblical religion nor a retroactive endorsement of it. In approaching Muslims, self-respecting Christians and others would do better to rely on what remains within Islam of natural religion*—and of religious virtue—and to take into account the common humanity that Muslims share with all people everywhere.”
*This is a reference to his earlier discussion of the question “What status does Islam occupy in [classical] Christian theology? To be precise, is it a revealed religion or a natural religion?” Besançon had concluded that from this standpoint it is not a revealed religion(!)
https://www.commentary.org/articles/alain-besancon/what-kind-of-religion-is-islam/
Thanks for sharing your erudition, Peter B. I knew about the Zoroastrians, but had to Google the Sabians, which didn’t help much! They seem to be into astrology in a big way.
Our ancestors booted Muslims out of Europe, and if Europe is to survive we must do likewise. They cause trouble wherever they go – no exceptions.
It comes down to the simple concept, them? Or Us? There is no making peace with the devil worshippers, they all must be either run out of the west with the spear, or put to the sword, every last one of them. No more muslims = no more problem, then deal with the leftists who allowed these abominations into Europe and the west in the first place.