SIAD/SIOE Demonstration Against Copenhagen Mega-Mosque; Overview and Event Report
D. L. Adams posted at http://sioanetwork.com
Here we have a comment by DL Adams about the front lines in the war against political Islam in Europe.
SIAD (StopIslamisationofDenmark)/SIOE sponsored a demonstration yesterday in Copenhagen, Denmark near the site of a new mega-Mosque in that city. The City Council there recently voted in favor of the mosque’s construction. The mainstream press reacted with glee [1] to the new mosque project, as one would expect from the dhimmitized press of the West.
Marcellus:
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Horatio:
Heaven will direct it.
(Shakespeare, Hamlet, Hamlet Act 1, scene 4, 87-91 [2])
Multiculturalism, tolerance, and “niceness” are destroying the foundations of our cultures because they prevent us from responding to the existential threat that is political Islam. Shakespeare suggests in Hamlet that “heaven” will direct what happens in Denmark, this is wrong. We must direct what happens in Denmark — those who love freedom and justice and embrace the value of the individual must oppose the forces of the oldest totalitarianism, political Islam. SIOE’s approach in Europe is to show the public that there is an opposing view to the suicidal openness and “tolerance” that our societies show to Islam, a political ideology whose purpose is the Islamization of the host country. We in the West could not possibly be more self-destructive.
Approximately 40-60 people attended the demonstration against the mosque. There were more than 100 people observing the protest who did not participate, but appeared to be at least interested in hearing the message of SIAD/SIOE. Several translated articles describing the event from SIAD/SIOE’s perspective are available here [3], and here [4].
Things in Denmark are not good for lovers of freedom and religious tolerance. Islam is a political ideology; it is a complete civilization of which the so-called “religion of peace” is a part. The core purpose of Islam is expansion and conquest. Jihad is the responsibility of every adherent of this ideology of intolerance, hatred, and brutality.
Islam is a political ideology of conquest. Conquest is not necessarily accomplished only through violent warfare (jihad against the kafir, the unbelievers), it can be accomplished through immigration and “soft jihad”. Soft jihad is the constant pressure that Islam adherents put upon the host society for concessions and legitimization as their numbers outstrip the growth rates of the host cultures. This is happening in Europe today, Denmark is in deep trouble particularly for these reasons. Islam does not now require jihad of the sword because they are so successful in Europe with the “soft jihad”, the jihad of immigration, al-hijra.
Year One of the Islamic calendar does not begin when Mohammed gets his “revelations” from Allah; rather it begins when Mohammed emigrates from Mecca to Medina. At this time Mohammed went from no power or wealth to being a warlord and political personality. Islam became strong in Medina for the first time, via immigration. This is the key moment of Islam’s history, not the revelations of allah. Islam is a political ideology – its calendar is rooted in politics, as is its doctrine. Immigration is a tool of jihad. A new book called Modern Day Trojan Horse: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration lays out this case quite clearly. Please take a moment to read this excellent analytical review [5] of the book. A reposting of the same piece in Islam-Watch [6] elicited some excellent comments.
The low turnout at the mosque protest in Copenhagen shows that the unpleasant truth of Islam is still not widely understood. We must redouble our efforts to educate the people as to the dangers that we face from this brutal ideology of anti-humanity. It also shows that Westerners, non-Muslims, are afraid. This is the bizarre duality of Islam – it appears peaceful when its purposes are well-suited but readily switches to less pleasant approaches to get their message across when the time is right, this is Jihad.
The bravery of the demonstrators and the SIAD/SIOE leadership across Europe and within Denmark cannot be over-stated. During WW2 the “resistance” fought totalitarianism; the forces of good triumphed over totalitarianism and brutality. Today, the peoples of the West invite the forces of hate and intolerance directly into our midst and help them build Islamic Centers and mosques, places from which later (at their leisure) the jihad against the unbelievers will issue forth; the history of Islam is proof of this pattern, adherents of Islam talk about this publicly this constantly, they are not shy as to their purposes when they feel strong.
They are strong now, because we are so weak. We are weak because so few will stand up and say, “NO!” to the growth of totalitarianism and the ongoing Islamization of Europe and the West. We are weak because we know so little about Islam and its doctrine and history. The coming mega mosque of Copenhagen is similar in effect to the new mega-Mosque of Boston [7] recently opened. The doctrine of Islam, a doctrine of conquest and cruelty will be taught there, and these places will become centers of jihad, which is their stated purpose. The purposes of Islam are clear for all to see, most of us prefer not to believe it so we will not listen. Islam is strong because we are ignorant and too “tolerant”. Tolerance for an ideology whose purpose is our destruction is national and cultural suicide.
The inaction and ignorance of those of the West who embrace multiculturalism at the expense of their own cultures, states, and religions and ignore the clarion calls of alarms from those who resist, like the brave people of SIOE/SIAD, are the “useful idiots” of which both Lenin and Mao spoke with such appreciation and derision. The enemy is not at the gates, they are within our city walls and we do nothing, nothing but welcome them.
One of the founders of SIOE, Anders Gravers, explains the situation in Denmark as follows:
Denmark is as close to a civil war as you can get without declaring it.
There are shootings between Muslim gangs and AK81 every week now. Three persons have been killed so far and a lot injured with knife stabs and shootings.
Last week the police searched a person in Nørrebro, the whole police force was stoned out by Muslims and autonomous and couldn’t return to Nørrebro and maintain peace before they came with riot gear and more people.
Muslim gangs were also exercising throwing acid bombs in plastic balloons. They hit a two-year-old girl who got seriously burned and went to the hospital.
So the Copenhagen people are very scared.
I understand that people are afraid.
What people tell me is that it is very important that SIOE and SIAD show they dare to make demonstrations under these circumstances because no other organization dares to do it, including the Danish Peoples Party. All the other anti-Islamic organizations in Denmark are not demonstrating either, because they are scared. So I don’t give a toss about (criticism). We send a signal to the Danish people that there is an organization who dares.
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[1] mainstream press reacted with glee: http://www.cphpost.dk/component/content/46717.html?task=view
[2] Hamlet Act 1, scene 4, 87-91: http://www.enotes.com/hamlet-text/act-i-scene-iv#ham-1-4-96
[3] here: http://74.125.159.132/translate_c?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://www.siad.dk/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D1017:siads-demonstration-forsogt-odelagt%26catid%3D49:politik&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://siad.wordpress.com/%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhgBo7nUcuLzsRmbi52jXOObHg0DRg
[4] here: http://74.125.159.132/translate_c?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://www.siad.dk/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D1016:demo-update%26catid%3D49:politik&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://siad.wordpress.com/%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhifj86oV0Hjj95k3QuPdzubPZ_iEw
[5] excellent analytical review: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_hijra.html
[6] Islam-Watch: http://islam-watch.org/iw-new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=132:review-qmodern-day-trojan-horse-the-islamic-doctrine-of-immigrationq&catid=90:book&Itemid=58
[7] new mega-Mosque of Boston: http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/44091/sec_id/44091
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by D. L. Adams
It has been observed that humor stops at Mohammed’s door.
It is Sunna to kill those who mock Islam, and its leaders. Sunna means that this is an example set by Mohammed for all adherents of the so-called “religion of peace” to follow forever. Beheading, brutality, pedophilia, and murder are also “Sunna”.
While the life of Mohammed does give us examples of humor from the perspective of the prophet, the finest example of humanity that all adherents of the “religion of peace” are to emulate, we have seen that anything deviating from these pious examples is frowned upon.
This lack of humor inclusiveness was discovered by the Danish cartoonists much to their horror and that of millions of other funny people (i.e., people who love liberty and freedom). Now, the comedian Sasha Baron Cohen has discovered it as well.
The mystery of the recent threat against “Borat” is not that it has been issued but rather that it seems so late in coming.
Generally, a humor assault on the sacred concepts of Islam results in immediate street demonstrations, fatwas, and overt acts of violence against the humorist (and his/her supporters). Not in this case. The response from the terrorist adherents of the “religion of peace” appears tardy.
The Times of London reports that Sasha Baron Cohen, the aggressive humorist behind the “Borat” character, is under threat by terrorists. His crime: he played a joke on them. (Click on the link to see the video, it’s quite short and funny.)
Sacha Baron Cohen has stepped up his security after being threatened by a militant Palestinian group angered at its portrayal in the film Brüno.The al-AqsaMartyrs’ Brigades, a coalition of Palestinian militias in the West Bank, said in a statement released to a Jerusalem-based journalist that it was “very upset” that it featured in the film starring Baron Cohen’s homosexual fashionista alter ego.“We reserve the right to respond in the way we find suitable against this man,” it said. “The movie was part of a conspiracy against the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.” (Times of London)
Cultures that are modern and inclusive understand and embrace humor. Cultures that are reactionary and pre-modern as is Islam cannot countenance satire and humor. Humor and satire are consistent with free-thinking, freedom of thought and speech, and intellectualism. People who think freely find humor in one another and in the world. In totalitarian systems like Islam humor is not allowed; only authoritarian thinking is allowed,that is one can only think what the theocratic dictatorship clicque want you to think. They get these directives directly from the doctrine of Islam. In Islam it is considered pious to kill people who tell jokes. Mohammed did it, so it is sunna.
Let us examine Islamic humor for a moment. Mohammed had a sense of humor. It is somewhat different from ours. Allah also likes humor. Unfortunately, what is funny to them means death to us.
‘Asim b. ‘Umar b. Qatada told me that ‘Auf b. Harith-his mother was ‘Afra’-said ‘O apostle of God, what makes the Lord laugh with joy at His servant?’ He answered, ‘When he plunges into the midst of the enemy without mail.’ ‘Auf drew off the mail-coat that was on him and threw it away: then he seized his sword and fought the enemy till he was slain. (Sira, Ishaq, 446)
I said (to myself), ‘You will soon know!’ and as soon as the /badu/ was asleep and snoring I got up and killed him in a more horrible way than any man has been killed. I put the end of my bow in his sound eye, then I bore down on it until I forced it out at the back of his neck. Then I came out like a beast of prey and took the highroad like an eagle hastening until I came out at a village which, (said the narrator), he described; then to Rakuba and al-Naqi’ where suddenly there appeared two Meccans whom Quraysh had sent to spy on the apostle. I recognized them and called on them to surrender, and when they refused I shot one and killed him, and the other surrendered. I bound him and took him to the apostle.Ibn Ishaq from Sulayman b. Wardan from his father from ‘Amr b.Umayya: ‘When I got to Medina I passed some shaykhs of the Ansar and, when they exclaimed at me some young men heard my name and ran to tell the apostle. Now I had bound my prisoner’s thumbs with my bowstring, and when the apostle looked at him he laughed so that one could see his back teeth. He asked my news and when I told him what had happened heblessed me’) (Sira, Tabari, 914).
Consider the annoyance that the terrorists must have felt when they realized that a kafir jew pretending to be a kafir gay man had a laugh at their expense. The insult could not have been deeper. Response must be made; Mohammed killed those who mocked him, it is sunna!
Narrated Abu Huraira:Allah’s Apostle said, “Allah welcomes two men with a smile; one of whom kills the other and both of them enter Paradise. One fights in Allah’s Cause and gets killed. Later on Allah forgives the ‘killer who also getsmartyred (In Allah’s Cause).” (Bukhari, Hadith, 4:52:80)
In Islam Jews and gays are the worst kinds of kafir, the unbeliever; Allah and Mohammed hate the Jews with a passion. The gays, well, they don’t fair much better. In fact, in Baghdad, Iraq, the new Islamic Sharia state built by American military power and profound ignorance and self-destructiveness, gay men are being systematically tortured and murdered in the most brutal ways imaginable.
Humor has power, it is a weapon. Societies that embrace the individual, that revel in intellectual discourse all have the ability to poke fun at themselves. In Islam this is not the case. Authoritarians hate humor.
Reactionary, retrogressive ideologies cannot countenance satire; you see, they are far too serious – the revealed truth of reality is far too serious for humor, even if that “truth” is about hate, violence, intolerance, pedophilia, war-mongering, misogyny, and totalitarian universal supremacism. How funny was 7th century Arabia, after all?
Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humour in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun or joy in whatever is serious. (Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, radio sermon, 1979.)
For Islam no other religion, no other culture, no other political system is acceptable. In fact, no religion other than Allah’s is permitted to exist. This is why Islam is at war with the kafirs everywhere – it is not because of anything that the non-believer has done; it is not because of any “crime” or real “offense” that the unbelievers have committed. The war against the unbeliever is waged for one reason only. The crime of the kafir is that they exist and this is an offense to Allah, Mohammed and the Umma of Islam. The existence of non-Muslims is why they are at war with us and why we must defend ourselves.
But we must give credit where credit is due, Mohammed and Allah have a sense of humor. Allah and Mohammed laugh at the pain and suffering of those they conquer, those they enslave, those they wish to dominate.
“Verily our Lord laughs at the despair that His servants feel, even though His Help is so close!” So Laqit bin Saburah said “O Messenger of Allah – may my mother and father be given as your ransom – and does our Lord laugh?” The prophet replied, “Yes!” Laqit said, “In that case, we will never give up hope of receiving good from a Lord that laughs!” (Hadith, Ibn Majah)
There is humor in the doctrine of Islam. Mohammed and Allah enjoy a good laugh here and there, but for the kafir, it’s all not very funny at all.
DL Adams is an historian, writer and an ideological warrior in this existential war of civilizations between the west and political Islam. A student of Islam since prior to 9/11, Mr. Adams is a foundationalist who asserts that one can only understand Islam through a study of Islamic doctrine, Koran, Sira, Hadith. Mr. Adams believes that study of Islam is a patriotic duty.
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If Islam were just a religion, it would be of no concern except for potential converts. But Islam is a complete civilization. It is the completeness concept that makes Islam a threat to all other civilizations. There is no issue so small that Islam does not have an opinion, position or rule.
Since Islam is based upon the principle of submission, there is nothing so small that it must not submit to the Islamic civilization. Art, history, literature, human rights, equal treatment of all citizens under the law, free speech, critical thinking, names, education, sports, TV, movies, government and food must all be under Islamic rule of law-Sharia. This is a process of civilizational annihilation. It is the same process that took a Christian Turkey and transformed it into a 99.7% Muslim nation.
Bill Warner
This article is reprinted from the ACT, West Nashville website and gives an insight into the problem of political Islam.
Civilizational Conflict
by D. L. Adams
President Obama recently assured the “Muslim World” that we are not war with Islam, and never will be. The response has been less than encouraging. The lack of buy-in to Obama’s message of friendship and pandering to the “Muslim World” is because while we may not be at war with them, they are certainly at war with us.
Throughout history there have been civilizations that are so fundamentally different from one another that no interaction or accommodation between them could be possible. This is the situation with Islam. Because Islam is at war with every kafir state and religion everywhere and forever, accommodation or understanding with Islam in the Obama model cannot be successful.
The doctrine of Islam states that no religion is acceptable other than Islam; it asserts Islam’s superiority over every political and religious system anywhere and for all time. Adherents to the ideology of Islam are required to “fight in Allah’s cause” even though they’d not prefer to be involved in such things. Allah commands that all must be involved in Jihad or at least support those who are. Islam is much more than a religion, it is also a political, cultural, legal, and military system that encompasses the entirety of existence from birth to death; it is a comprehensive ideology.
Because the majority of the Koran discusses how adherents are to interact with non-believers the Koran is the foundational document of a political ideology whose purpose is the conversion and destruction of all non-Muslim states and cultures and peoples everywhere and forever. This conversion and destruction of non-Muslim peoples is acccomplished through Jihad.
Jihad is asymmetrical war. This is the kind of warfare we now face in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is about propaganda, street violence, assassinations, church burnings, brutality and barbarism and small unit actions of violence and mass-murder that terrify the kafirs into inaction. There are no mass armies on the move in this war (though some jihad actions in the past have involved such kinds of warfare), no massive air bombing campaigns like those of WW2 there is only constant strife and conflict at the street level and into the institutions of the host culture whereby they are undermined and prevented from mounting an effective defense.
There are two phases of Islamic jihad, active warfare and hudna. Hudna is not peace because no Mulsim is bound by any treaty of word or paper with a non-Muslim. Treaties between Muslims and kafirs are worth less than the paper that they are printed upon. Mohammed broke treaties, and encouraged lies and deceptions in Jihad and that is exactly what we see today.
“The Quran also allows them to be “disobedient towards the disbelievers and their governments and strive against the unbelievers with great endeavour.” (25:52) – Shoebat, Why We Want to Kill You, p214
Westerners confuse the temporary period of non-fighting which is “hudna” with actual peace. The truth is that hudna is just a period of time that passes without conflict while the forces of jihad regroup, rearm and wait for new opportunities to fight the kafir unbelievers. Mohammed used this tactic to great success as do all of his followers over time.
There is no peace with Islam and with Jihad, there is only a temporary pause as the jihadists await better opportunities. For many it is difficult to conceive that this status quo of fighting punctuated by pauses could be a tactic rather than a situational response to political conflict (e.g., Israel-Palestine). Our leaders say that we are not at war because they cannot conceive that this kind of warfare can be real, but it is. This is entirely an ignorance-based position. We are very much at war with Islam but we do not defend ourselves because our leadership has deluded itself into believing that the war is not real.
But the war is very real, and we are losing it because we will not take action for defense.
We are overrun and in retreat everywhere even as we apologize to our enemies and pretend that their culture is foundational to our own, which is false. We cannot fight a war that is waged against us when we pretend that it is not happening. Jihad has never stopped since the founding of this ideology, it only pauses. So long as the trilogy doctrine of Islam requires adherents to “fight in Allah’s Cause” everywhere and forever, we are at war with Islam because they are at war with us. This is not a matter of opinion it is rather a matter of the acceptance of an ugly reality.
In the Islamic world honor and pride override all boundaries and linkages of kin and morality. Those who offend the honor and pride of their Islamic familiesdo so at their peril. Family bonds and responsibilities are subsumed by the demands of Islam. The Umma of Islam is the family to adherents. This is contrary to our western concepts of the overriding value of family connections. One’s connection to Islam is more important than one’s connections to family, father and children, sister and brother, etc.
In their investigation, PCHR said police sources “revealed that the victim’s father issued a confession to the police” that he had killed his daughter to “preserve family honor.” (Maan News, see link above)
In the first incident of its kind, a Palestinian family has killed its 15-year-old son in the West Bank after accusing him of “collaboration” with Israel. Raed Wael Sawalha’s body was discovered in the basement of a house in his village of Hijjah in the Kalkilya area on Wednesday.
The Palestinian Authority security forces announced that they have arrested a number of the boy’s family members in connection with the killing. (Jerusalem Post)
This kind of barbarity is fundamentally in opposition to our concepts of morality and family relationships. This is a civilizational conflict.
Recently in Pakistan a Christian man was murdered for drinking from a cup that was designated for Muslims only. He was beaten to death with “stones, iron rods and clubs” by 14 Muslim men. This is barbarism and this is a civilization opposed to our own. A recent public beating in Afghanistan by a Taliban man puts on clear display the totalitarian brutality of Islam and those states that follow Sharia law.
Several weeks ago, a US Army private was killed in front of an army recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas. The killer was a Muslim jihadist. A memorial service for this victim of Islamic jihad was held in Little Rock. A Muslim woman in a burka showed up at the event screaming Islamic supremacist and Jew hatred slogans, interfering with the memorial. This was all captured on video. (See below).
Why would someone interfere at a memorial event for an innocent American murdered by a new-fangled Muslim jihadist killer? Interfering in the service was this woman’s jihad, fighting in Allah’s cause against the kafir. No compassion is extended to the kafir unbelievers in jihad, no basic courtesy even in mourning is given. Kafirs are less than human, they do not merit any courtesies from Muslims. Terrorizing kafirs, confusing them, and preventing them from following their own traditions of remembrance and respect are all jihad actions.
The kafir culture and kafirs themselves merit no respect by Islam and its adherents. Because kafirs have not accepted Allah and Mohammed so they are therefore the enemy. Islam knows its enemies – all non-believers wherever they might be. We do not know ours. “The sheep do not know the wolf, but the wolf knows the sheep.” (Walid Shoebat)
Deconstruction of western traditions and even funeral observances are all part of the ongoing jihad. This is asymmetrical warfare in this civilizational conflict. We pretend it is not real – but it will not go away nevertheless.
Bill Warner
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Those Who Ignore History Are Condemned – Somali Piracy in Context
by D.L. Adams
On April 6 in an address to the parliament of Turkey, US President Obama said that the relationship between the United States and the “Muslim world” is an important one. “In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical,” the president said. During the same address the President stated, “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better, including my own country.” Mr. Obama neglected to explain in what way(s) Islam has the shaped and improved the United States. The founding fathers of the United States did not share Mr. Obama’s appreciation for the “Islamic faith”. In fact Jefferson, Adams, JQ Adams, and Benjamin Franklin were all were deeply concerned about the dangers that Islam represented to the new nation. Our ongoing experiences with the 21st century version of the Barbary pirates off the coast of Somalia, most recently today when an American freighter captain was freed from pirate captivity by the US Navy, illustrates a great deal about our prior relations with the “religion of peace” and how our previous leaders reacted. There is little discussion in the mainstream press about the link between Somali Islamism, piracy, and jihad, but the linkage is there nonetheless.
In spite of the news media distancing the recent attack on a cruise ship off the coast of Somalia from global terrorism, intelligence experts believe this is just the latest operation initiated against the United States and the West by Al-Qaeda. (source)
The irony perhaps is that Islam did in fact play a very important role in the early stages of the development of the United States – Islam was directly responsible for the development of the United States Navy and for the concepts that allowed for its deployment far from our coasts. The American Navy is not a river navy or coastal defense force; it is a global tool of American power whose origins can be traced directly back to an earlier American-Islam confrontation.After the American Revolution, pirates from the Barbary states (Algiers, Morcoco) attacked American shipping off the coast of North Africa in the Mediterranean and took the crews. This piracy against American shipping started in 1784 and finally ended in 1815. The Islamic rulers of these Barbary States demanded payment of tribute from the new country and it was paid, and paid. President Jefferson sent a naval force against the pirates in 1803-05. The Marine Corps were also sent in and after a long overland march, took the city of Tripoli in 1805 (thus “to the shores of Tripoli” in the Marine Corps hymn). Is the Somali piracy of today related to the Barbary pirates of the early 19th century?When then Ambassadors Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with the Ambassador from Tripoli in 1785, to reach a solution to the attacks against American shipping and crews they were dragged into a dark world in which we are still today.
“When they inquired by what right the Barbary states preyed upon American shipping, enslaving both crews and passengers, America’s two foremost envoys were informed that “it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.” (Source)
The Barbary piracy was based upon the doctrine of Islam, calling for endless war against the unbeliever everywhere, including at sea.
To Muslims in the heyday of Barbary piracy, there were, at least in principle, only two forces at play in the world: the Dar al-Islam, or House of Islam, and the Dar al-Harb, or House of War. The House of Islam meant Muslim governance and the unrivaled authority of the sharia, Islam’s complex system of holy law. The House of War was simply everything that fell outside of the House of Islam — that area of the globe not under Muslim authority, where the infidel ruled. For Muslims, these two houses were perpetually at war — at least until mankind should finally embrace Allah and his teachings as revealed through his prophet, Mohammed.
Today, we are dealing with the same Islam. Islam is considered perfect, unchangable, unchallengable, by adherents. It is the perfect word of the perfect Allah, and carried to the world by the perfect example of humanity for all Muslims to emulate, Mohammed. History has returned, again.
“The Barbary pirates were not a “radical” or “fundamentalist” sect that had twisted religious doctrine for power and politics, or that came to recast aspects of their faith out of some form of insanity. They were simply a North African warrior caste involved in an armed jihad — a mainstream Muslim doctrine. This is how the Muslims understood Barbary piracy and armed jihad at the time, and, indeed, how the physical jihad has been understood since Mohammed revealed it as the prophecy of Allah.”
If the United States was unable to fight the pirates, they would be forced to continue to pay extortion to the Barbary States, a kind of high seas jizya. Jefferson immediately determined to fight. When he became president he was able to implement the plans that he had formulated after diplomacy to resolve Barbary piracy had failed. And are we not in the same position now? During a phone conversation with a journalist prior to the attack against them by US Navy SEALs to free the captured American sailor, one of the Somali jihadist/pirates said, “We never kill people. We are Muslims. We are marines, coastguards — not pirates,” one said. Not quite marines, not quite coastguard, at least not in the American sense of the terms.
Paying the ransom would only lead to further demands, Jefferson argued in letters to future presidents John Adams, then America’s minister to Great Britain, and James Monroe, then a member of Congress. As Jefferson wrote to Adams in a July 11, 1786, letter, “I acknolege [sic] I very early thought it would be best to effect a peace thro’ the medium of war.” Paying tribute will merely invite more demands, and even if a coalition proves workable, the only solution is a strong navy that can reach the pirates, Jefferson argued in an August 18, 1786, letter to James Monroe: “The states must see the rod; perhaps it must be felt by some one of them. . . . Every national citizen must wish to see an effective instrument of coercion, and should fear to see it on any other element than the water. A naval force can never endanger our liberties, nor occasion bloodshed; a land force would do both.” “From what I learn from the temper of my countrymen and their tenaciousness of their money,” Jefferson added in a December 26, 1786, letter to the president of Yale College, Ezra Stiles, “it will be more easy to raise ships and men to fight these pirates into reason, than money to bribe them.” (source)
When he became the 3rd President, Jefferson took action, and the United States Navy was sent to deal with the Barbary Coast pirates, which they did.
When Jefferson became president in 1801 he refused to accede to Tripoli’s demands for an immediate payment of $225,000 and an annual payment of $25,000. The pasha of Tripoli then declared war on the United States. Although as secretary of state and vice president he had opposed developing an American navy capable of anything more than coastal defense, President Jefferson dispatched a squadron of naval vessels to the Mediterranean. As he declared in his first annual message to Congress: “To this state of general peace with which we have been blessed, one only exception exists. Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary States, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war, on our failure to comply before a given day. The style of the demand admitted but one answer. I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean. . . .”
We can trace the development of the US Navy directly to Thomas Jefferson’s interaction with jihadist pirates. President Obama was right about the “Islamic faith” having “done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country,” but probably not in the way that he had intended. The development of our national defense capabilities are fundamentally linked with an American conflict with Islam in 1805.John Quincy Adams didn’t have to deal with the Barbary States directly as president, but his father John Adams did. Considered one of the most brilliant men to sit in the White House, JQ Adams is particularly perceptive about Islam. His warnings on the matter ring as true today as they did more than 100 years ago. The Islam that Adams discusses is the same Islam we see today.
John Quincy Adams possessed a remarkably clear, uncompromised understanding of the permanent Islamic institutions of jihad war and dhimmitude. Regarding jihad, Adams states in his essay series,
“…he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind…The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.”
Confirming Adams’ assessment, the late Muslim scholar, Professor Majid Khadduri, wrote the following in his authoritative 1955 treatise on jihad, War and Peace in the Law of Islam :
“Thus the jihad may be regarded as Islam’s instrument for carrying out its ultimate objective by turning all people into believers, if not in the prophethood of Muhammad (as in the case of the dhimmis), at least in the belief of God. …The universality of Islam, in its all embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political if not strictly military.”3 source
There is a certain bizarre justice here that our Navy ships were on hand to effect the release of an American ship captain through military action against Somali pirates likely affiliated with Islamism because of events that occurred with other Islamist pirates more than 200 years ago. When you hear in the mainstream press pundits and commentators saying that the Somali piracy is “unprecedented”, don’t believe it because it is not so. And don’t believe that our current struggle with political Islam is also unprecedented. This is a conflict of 1400 years. Since 9/11 some of us have accepted this truth. Long before our generation, other Americans struggled with similar matters.Our founding fathers fought the jihadists of the Barbary States and came to know Islam through their jihad against innocent unbelievers. By 1830 John Quincy Adams had not forgotten the lesson. We must learn the same lesson again; then, never forget it.Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. If we today choose to ignore the lessons of history we are simply condemned – we will have no opportunity to repeat.
“In the seventh century of the Christian era a wandering Arab, of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combing the powers of transcendent genius with the preternatural energy of a fanatic and the fraudulent spirit of an imposter, proclaimed himself as a messenger from heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth.
Adopting, from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God, he connected indissolubly with it the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion.He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war as part of his religion against all the rest of mankind. The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust; to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in the characters, a war of more than twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extincture of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute are encouraged to furnish motives to human action, there never can be peace on earth and good will toward men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.”John Adams, 1830
–John Quincy Adams, “Christianity—Islamism.” “Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War, and on Greece,” originally published in The American Annual Register for 1827—1829 (New York, 1830), Chs. X-XIV: 267—402. (source)
First published in the ACT West Nashville: http://actwestnashville.com/
Bill Warner
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