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Publication: catholiccitizens.org
Date: September 26, 2003
URL: http://catholiccitizens.org/platform/platformview.asp?c=8686
Since the attacks of September 11,
dozens of books have been rushed to market purporting to "explain" the
religion in whose name the terrorists acted. Most of them strike a common
theme: "true" Islam -- as opposed to the "fundamentalist" variety of the
hijackers -- is a "religion of peace" that promotes charity, tolerance,
freedom, and culture no less than "true" Christianity.
Such an viewpoint, argues Serge
Trifkovic, foreign affairs editor of Chronicles magazine, is not only false
but dangerous, since it blinds to the true nature of the enemy that threatens
us. Moreover, it betrays a hidden agenda: to discredit Christianity and
the West by comparison to an sanitized, idealized Islam that bears no resemblance
to its actual teachings or history.
To correct this, Trifkovic gives
us the unvarnished, "politically incorrect" truth about Islam -- including
the shocking facts about its founder, Mohammed; its rise through bloody
conquest; its sanctioning of theft, deceit, lust and murder; its persecutions
of Christians, Jews, Hindus and other "infidels"; its cruel mistreatment
of women; the colossal myth of its cultural "golden age"; its irreformable
commitment to global conquest by any means necessary; the broad sweep of
the military, political, moral, and spiritual struggle that faces us; and
what we must do if we wish to survive.
Get the details and documentation
for hundreds of "politically incorrect" facts about Islam -- such as:
* The Koran sanctions pillage, looting,
ransom, and the rape of captive women as an incentive to join in jihad
or "holy war"
* Mohammed kept one-fifth of all
spoils of war for himself
* The Koran allows a man to have
up to four wives -- at any one time. He can divorce a wife by simply saying
so 3 times
* Mohammad had as many as 25 wives.
One was six when they married; he was 54. He consummated the marriage when
she was 9
* At least 27 people were murdered
on Mohammed's orders
* Mohammed allowed temporary marriage
"for three nights" or more, so that soldiers in the field could "marry"
prostitutes
* The Koran assures the Muslim the
right to own slaves by purchasing them or as a bounty of war. Mohammad
had dozens
* Almsgiving and mercy is commended
in Islam -- but the beneficiaries have to be Muslims only
* In Islam, the definition of what
is "right" or "just" is not fixed, but changeable by divine decree -- enabling
the most henous sins and crimes to be declared "the will of Allah"
* The joys and glories of the Islamic
"paradise" are tangible and sensual and include sex with virgins -- and
young boys
* As Mohammad progressed from visionary
and teacher to warlord and ruler, his style and message became more depraved,
violent and intolerant. It is these later "revelations" that are considered
definitive by Islamic authorities when they conflict with earlier ones
often cited for Western consumption
* The Crusades were a belated military
response to three centuries of Muslim aggression against Christian lands
and peoples
* Islam divides the world into the
House of Islam (where Islam rules) and the House of War (where it doesn't).
The two are permanently at war; there may be temporary truces, but peace
will come only upon the completion of global conquest
* When Muslims are a minority community,
the Koran permits them to adopt a peaceful attitude to deceive their neighbors,
until they feel strong enough to dispense with the pretense
* The massacres perpetrated by Muslims
in India are unparalleled in history, bigger in sheer numbers than the
Holocaust
* Muslim persecution of Christians
has caused suffering and death for millions over 13 centuries -- and continues
today
* The myth of Islam's "tolerance"
of religious minorities contradicts its teaching, history, and present
reality
* Islam's "golden age" was parasitic
on the Christian cultures and peoples it conquered, and ended when it "killed
the host"
* In 1993, Saudi Arabia's supreme
religious authority declared that the world is flat, and that anyone who
disagrees is an infidel to be punished
* Like Communism, Islam cannot foster
prosperity, and is always reliant on plunder or unearned wealth (e.g.,
from oil)
* Islam recognizes no distinction
between temporal and divine authority; the only "legitimate" government
is a theocracy
* America's "ally" Saudi Arabia
remains the most intolerant Islamic regime in the world, where the practice
of any religion besides Islam is as strictly prohibited as in Mohammed's
day
* The first imam to deliver a Muslim
prayer for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1991, declared in 1997
that Muslims will eventually elect the president and replace the constitutional
government with an Islamic caliphate
In the current war to make the world
safe for commercialization by the corporations of the Anglo-American empire,
certain facts about Islam are being left out. "The arbiters of official
Islam will not tell us what Islam is, only what they want it to be. For
the truth, we must turn Dr. Serge Trifkovic, a European historian of broad
learning, sound philosophy and keen political insight, " says Brian Mitchell,
Washington Bureau Chief, Investor's Business Daily
Ray Olson offered a review of Dr.
Trifkovic's book in BOOKLIST, published by American Library Association,
October 1, 2002. "This exceptionally fluid argument against militant Islam
omits too many articles, but reports more Islamic savagery than Robert
Spencer's "Islam Unveiled" and critiques Muslim theology more thoroughly
than Timothy George's "Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?"
"Its most important distinction",
said Olson, "is Trifkovic's insistence that "the problem [for the West]
is not prejudice about Islam, but folly in the face of its violence and
cruelty," manifested today in such horrors as the ongoing slaughter of
Sudanese Christians and the appalling anti-Semitism of the Islamic press
and such Islamic legal authorities as the mufti of Jerusalem.
"Like Roger Scruton in "The West
and the Rest" Trifkovic doesn't endorse war against Islam. Instead, the
West must defend itself against Islamic aggression (e.g., by restricting
immigration and reducing dependence on Islamic-controlled oil) and help
non-Muslims oppressed in Islamic societies," Olson observes.
Conservative columnist Don Feder
said, "Trifkovic documents how Muhammad, like a mafia don, put out contracts
on those who dared to criticize his august personage. Trifkovic also describes
Muhammads genocidal campaign against Arabia's Jewish tribes; thus was the
precedent firmly established for holy warriors, wars of annihilation, suicide
bombers, forced conversions, snipers and those who fly jetliners into skyscrapers."
"We are in the midst of another
global struggle," notes Feder. "Like communism and Nazism - mere blips
on the historical radar screen, by comparison - the foe this time is as
much an ideology as a religion. Its an all- encompassing dogma that regulates
the lives of its followers down to the most minute detail. Its an ideology
which can not coexist with other creeds. Its a worldview which sanctions
-- nay, glorifies -- mass murder to advance its goal of world conquest."
Michael Stenton, a columnist for
Chronicles Magazine notes, "Neither Christians nor Jews can claim that
their religion has always been innocuous. What Serge Trifkovic argues in
"The Sword of the Prophet," however, is that the raw stuff from which Islam
is made is particularly dangerous and unpromising, that the bellicose tradition
is worse than admitted by the influential Islamic Studies lobby, that the
present threat from Islam is alarming, and that the future demands the
vigilance of non-Muslims.
Stenton writes, "(Trifkovic) challenges
the opinion that all religions are equally valid. The most striking claim
in "The Sword of the Prophet" is that the American elite's extreme version
of post-Christian religion is bent more aggressively against historic Christianity
than any other religion in the West and could even enter into partnership
with Islam."
Colmnist Michael Carl said of the
book, "Serge Trifkovic's piercing analysis of the true nature of Islam
is accurate, factual and brutally truthful. Islam is more than a simple
religion: Islam is a comprehensive cultural, political and religious movement
that covers every aspect of a Muslim's daily life, a fact that Americans
fail to appreciate or choose to ignore. Trifkovic accurately points out
that it was Muhammad who promoted Allah to the status of supremecy. Allah,
whose name comes from Al-ilah, was originally the Quraysh tribe's moon
god. This explains why, in a dose of irony, flags of Muslim nations sport
the crescent moon."
Carl agrees that Islam is far from
a friendly neighbor, as the politically correct elites falsely promote.
"In a flash of truth, the author also confronts the clue-less politically
correct crowd who spin an evil web of disinformation when they tell us
that Islam is a religion of peace. This is a lie, for the Qu'ran in Sura
2:216 tells Muslims that war is good. The Qu'ran says in Sura 9:5 to slay
those who will not believe in Islam and in Sura 5:33 to execute those who
resist Islam."
