DECEPTION WITH THE HELP OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS

A Muslim volunteer at a Mosque book table gave me a tract entitled “Jihad: The Noble Struggle for Peace, Justice, and Truth” to explain what Jihad is all about. It read:

·       Jihad is a struggle to invite all that is (good), enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong. [3:104] It is the duty of Muslims to struggle for peace, justice and truth through complete submission to Allah’s Commands.

However, when I looked up this Qur’anic verse, I found that it didn’t address the question of Jihad. Instead, it read:

·       And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful.

However, it seems that the Qur’an defines “the good” in a way that most people do not regard as good. Here are several of the many verses on Jihad. None of them ever define Jihad in terms that any non-Muslim would regard as a pursuit of peace and justice:

·       Quran (2:191-193) - "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief or unrest] is worse than killing...but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun(the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)" (Translation is from the Noble Quran)

·       Quran (2:216) - "Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not."

·       Quran (3:151) - "Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions [like Jesus] with Allah, for which He had sent no authority".

·       Quran (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks."

·       Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them."

·       Quran (9:5) - "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them."

None of these verses represent Jihad as the alleged struggle against internal sin or injustice. Rather, these verses represent the Islamic mandate for world domination at any cost. Ibn Khaldun, the 15th century Tunisian historian, states:

• In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force... The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense... Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.

Here’s the Qur’anic basis for this:

• “Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah’s religion (Islam) reigns supreme, (Koran 8:37)

• “When the Sacred Months are over, kill those who ascribe partners [like Jesus] to God wheresoever ye find them; seize them, encompass them, and ambush them; then if they repent and observe prayer and pay the alms, let them go their way’.” (Koran 4:5)

• “…kill the disbelievers wherever we find them” (Koran 2:191) and “murder them and treat them harshly” (Koran 9:123), and “Strike off the heads of the disbelievers” (Koran 8:12, cp. 8:60).

But do not be surprised that when you present these verses to a Muslim apologist, he will refer you to Surah 2.256: “There is no compulsion in religion.” However, he will not tell you that the peaceable Qur’anic verses had been written before Muhammad obtained an army and that these verses have been replaced, according to the doctrine of “Abrogation,” by the superseding and now authoritative Jihadic verses.

Sadly, our elected officials are complicit in this deception.