Posted on 05/13/2004 10:54:16 AM PDT by quidnunc
Reactions to the grotesque jihadist decapitation of yet another "infidel Jew," Mr. Berg, make clear that our intelligentsia are either dangerously uninformed, or simply unwilling to come to terms with this ugly reality: such murders are consistent with sacred jihad practices, as well as Islamic attitudes towards all non-Muslim infidels, in particular, Jews, which date back to the 7th century, and the Prophet Muhammad's own example.
According to Muhammad’s sacralized biography by Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad himself sanctioned the massacre of the Qurayza, a vanquished Jewish tribe. He appointed an "arbiter" who soon rendered this concise verdict: the men were to be put to death, the women and children sold into slavery, the spoils to be divided among the Muslims. Muhammad ratified this judgment stating that it was a decree of God pronounced from above the Seven Heavens. Thus some 600 to 900 men from the Qurayza were lead on Muhammad’s order to the Market of Medina. Trenches were dug and the men were beheaded, and their decapitated corpses buried in the trenches while Muhammad watched in attendance. Women and children were sold into slavery, a number of them being distributed as gifts among Muhammad’s companions, and Muhammad chose one of the Qurayza women (Rayhana) for himself. The Qurayza’s property and other possessions (including weapons) were also divided up as additional "booty" among the Muslims, to support further jihad campaigns.
The classical Muslim jurist al-Mawardi (a Shafi’ite jurist, d. 1058) from Baghdad was a seminal, prolific scholar who lived during the so-called Islamic "Golden Age" of the Abbasid-Baghdadian Caliphate. He wrote the following, based on widely accepted interpretations of the Qur'an and Sunna (i.e., the recorded words and deeds of Muhammad), regarding infidel prisoners of jihad campaigns:
“As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, 'When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks' (Qur'an sura 47, verse 4)”…. Abu’l-Hasan al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah." [The Laws of Islamic Governance, trans. by Dr. Asadullah Yate, (London), Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., 1996, p. 192. Emphasis added.]
Indeed such odious “rules” were iterated by all four classical schools of Islamic jurisprudence, across the vast Muslim empire.
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This excellent statement is RIGHT on Target, and Well Worth Repeating!
We can not defeat Islam abroad until we have defeated Liberalism at home.
May GOD - The LIVING GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/ISRAEL BLESS and KEEP THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OUR PRESIDENT, HIS ADMINISTRATION AND OUR VERY BRAVE TROOPS.
PS: NOTE TO MR. TED (The Snorkel) KENNEDY...YOU ARE NO AMERICAN, NEVER HAVE BEEN AND NEVER WILL BE.
YOUR EVIL ARROGANT PERSONAGE PALES EVEN IN THE DARKNESS OF YOUR COMUNNIST-SOCIALISTIC-LIBERAL IDEOLOGY AND SOUL.
SHAME - SHAME ON YOU, YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO AMERICA AND SO IS YOUR EVIL PRODIGY...JOHN "F'in" KERRY and HIS DEMONIC WIFE.
THESE TWO AND THEIR MINIONS WILL MAKE THE CLINTONS LOOK LIKE MERE AMATEURS!
AND...THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO GET INTO OUR WHITE HOUSE IN NOVEMBER.
GOD HELP US THAT THEY WILL NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL.
Uh-oh, something's being read into my words that I certainly did not mean!
Yes, there were many on this board who opposed Clinton's Kosovo Quagmire from the very beginning. No doubt about that!
I was referring to a number of posters who didn't see through the falsehoods spread by the pro-Clinton press initially but have only recently come to the conclusion that we bombed the wrong side.
Of course, there are some posters on this board who openly support the Albanian Muslims and their campaign against the remaining Serbian Christians in Kosovo! Fortunately, they are very few in number.
I am pretty sure the UK foreign office had a lot to do with the US taking sides in that war. I wonder what exactly the UK foreign office has against the Serbs?
Don't forget that we still support the Afghans, this time against the Talibunnies and the "Afghan Arabs" that bin Laden brought into the country. AFIAK, we never supported Binny himself. He was a late comer to the war against the Commies anyway, and usurped their "revolution" in much the same way that the Bolsheviks usurped the first Russian revolution.
The Serbs happened to be the wrong kind of Christians. There has been an ancient hostility between the Catholic Church (the West), and the Orthodox Church (the East). In general, the US policies were never pro-Christian. If anything, we are always anti-Christian, and to make it even easier on us, the Serbs are not western Christians. I bet some idiots at the Vatican or in Boston urged the US to go beat on the Serbs. I wish for the US to conduct its policies with preferential treatment to its majority population, Christians. Ater all, every other country does that!
Ah yes, I forgot the hostility between the Vatican and Orthodox church that dates back to the crusades as I recall. Thanks that explains it.
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