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Critical Podium Dewanand Islam
AGENDA OF ISLAM THERE IS NO FUNDAMENTAL ISLAM
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Sacrifice date 25 march 2009
AGENDA OF ISLAM
THERE IS NO FUNDAMENTAL ISLAM.
"Fundamentalism" is a word that came from the heart of the
Christian religion. It means faith that goes by the word of the Bible.
Fundamental Christianity, or going with the Bible, does not mean going
around and killing people. There is no fundamental Islam. There is only
Islam full stop.
THE QUESTION IS, HOW IS THE KORAN INTERPRETED?
All of a sudden we see that the greatest interpreters of Islam are politicians
in the western world. They pretend to know better than all the speakers
in the mosques, all those who deliver terrible sermons against anything
that is either Christian or Jewish. These western politicians believe
that there is good Islam and bad Islam. They believe they can differentiate
between the two, but they pick and choose what they want out of the Koran,
IF they do happen to read it, and they have the added disadvantage of
not knowing how to read and speak Arabic.
THE LANGUAGE OF ISLAM
Politically correctnness is a smoke screen that hides the true meaning
of Islam. For example, when we speak about Islam in the west, we try to
use our own language and terminology. We speak about Islam in terms of
democracy and fundamentalism, in terms of parliamentarism and all kinds
of terms, which we take from our own dictionary. One of my professors
and one of the greatest orientalists in the world says that doing this
is like a cricket reporter describing a cricket game in baseball terms.
We cannot use for one culture or civilization the language of another.
For Islam, you've got to use the language of Islam.
DRIVING PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM
Let me explain the principles that are driving the religion of Islam.
Every Moslem has to acknowledge that there is only one God. But it's not
enough to say that there is only one God. A Moslem has to acknowledge
that there is one God and Mohammed is his prophet. These are the fundamentals
of the religion that without them, one cannot be a Moslem.
Beyond that, Islam is a civilization. It is a religion that gave first
and foremost a wide and unique legal system that engulfs the individual,
society and nations with rules of behaviour. If you are Moslem, you have
to behave according to the rules of Islam which are set down in the Koran
and which are very different than the teachings of the Bible.
THE BIBLE
Let me explain the difference. There is one thing that is important
in the Bible it leads to salvation, in two ways. In Judaism, it leads
to national salvation - not just a nation that wants to have a state,
but a nation that wants to serve God. That's the idea behind the Hebrew
text of the Bible. The New Testament moves us toward personal salvation.
So we have got these two kinds of salvation, which, from time to time,
meet each other. But the key word is salvation. Personal salvation means
that each individual is looked after by God, Himself, who leads a person
through His word to salvation. This is the idea in the Bible, whether
we are talking about the Old or the New Testament. All of the laws in
the Bible, even to the minutest ones, are, in fact directed toward this
fact of salvation. Secondly, there is another point in the Bible, which
is highly important. This is the idea that man was created in the image
of God. Therefore, you don't just walk around and obliterate the image
of God.
Many people, have used Biblical rules and turned them upside down. History
has seen a lot of massacres in the name of God and in the name of Jesus.
These follow their own carnal inclinations and commit injustices in the
name of God. Both Judaism and Christianity speak about honouring the image
of God and the hope of salvation. These are the two basic fundamentals.
THE ESSENCE OF ISLAM
Now let's move to the essence of Islam. Islam was born with the idea
that it should rule the world.
Let's look, then, at the difference between these three religions. Judaism
speaks about national salvation - namely that at the end of the story,
when the world becomes a better place, Israel will be in its own land,
ruled by its own king and serving God. Christianity speaks about the savation
of all who believe in Christ, they are saved from their sins. Christianity
is more than a religion, it is a Personal relationship with our LORD Jesus
Christ.
Islam speaks about ruling the world. I can quote here in Arabic, but
there is no point in quoting Arabic, so let me quote a verse in English.
"Allah sent Mohammed with the true religion so that it should rule
over all the religions." The idea, then, is not that the whole world
would become a Moslem world at that time, but that the whole world would
be subdued under the rule of Islam. When the Islamic empire was established
in 634 AD, within seven years - 640 - the core of the empire was created.
The rules that were taken from the Koran and from the tradition that was
ascribed to the prophet Mohammed, were translated into a real legal system.
Under Islam, Jews and Christians could live provided they paid poll tax
and accepted Islamic superiority. Of course, they had to be humiliated.
And Jews and Christians living under Islam are humiliated to this very
day.
MOHAMMED HELD THAT ALL THE BIBLICAL PROPHETS WERE MOSLEMS
Mohammed did accept the existence of all the Biblical prophets before
him. However he also claimed that all these prophets were Moslems. Abraham
was a Moslem. In fact, Adam himself was the first Moslem. Isaac and Jacob
and David and Solomon and Moses and Jesus were all Moslems, and all of
them had writings similar to the Koran. Therefore, he claimed that world
history is Islamic history because all the heroes of history were Moslems.
Further-more, Moslems accept the fact that each of these prophets brought
with him some kind of a revelation. Moses, brought the Taurat, which is
the Torah, and Jesus brought the Ingeel, which is the Gospel - namely
the New Testament.
THE BIBLE VS, THE KORAN
Why then is the Bible not similar to the Koran?
Mohammed claimes that the Jews and Christians forged their books. Had
they not been forged, they would have been identical to the Koran. But
because Christians and Jews do have some truth, Islam concedes that they
cannot be completely destroyed by war [for now]. Nevertheless, the laws
a very clear - Jews and Christians have no rights whatsoever to independent
existence. They can live under Islamic rule provided they keep to the
rules that Islam promulgates for them.
ISLAMIC RULE AND JIHAD
What happens if Jews and Christians don't want to live under the rules
of Islam? Then Islam has to fight them and this fighting is called Jihad.
Jihad means war against those people who don't want to accept the Islamic
superior rule. That's jihad. They may be Jews; they may be Christians;
they may be Polytheists. But since we don't have too many Polytheists
left, at least not in the Middle East - their war is against the Jews
and Christians.
A few days ago, I received a pamphlet that was distributed in the world
by bin Laden. He calls for jihad against America as the leader of the
Christian world, not because America is the supporter of Israel, but because
Americans are desecrating Arabia with their filthy feet. There are Americans
in Arabia were no Christians should be. In this pamphlet there is not
a single word about Israel. Only that Americans are desecrating the home
of the prophet.
Two Houses
The Koran sees the world as divided into two - one part which has come
under Islamic rule and one part which is supposed to come under Islamic
rule in the future. There is a division of the world which is very clear.
Every single person who starts studying Islam knows it. The world is described
as Dar al-Islam (the house of Islam) - that's the place where Islam rules
- and the other part which is called Dar al-Harb - the house of war. Not
the "house of non-Muslims," but the "house of war."
It is this house of war which as to be, at the end of time, conquered.
The world will continue to be in the house of war until it comes under
Islamic rule. This is the norm. Why? Because Allah says it's so in the
Koran. God has sent Mohammed with the true religion in order that the
truth will overcome all other religions.
ISLAMIC LAW
Within the Islamic vision of this world, there are rules that govern
the lives of the Moslems themselves, and these rules are very strict.
In fundamentals, there are no differences between schools of law. However,
there are four streams of factions within Islam with differences between
them concerning the minutiae of the laws. All over the Islamic world,
countries have favored one or another of these schools of laws. The strictest
school of law is called Hanbali, mainly coming out of Saudi Arabia. There
are no games there, no playing around with the meanings of words. If the
Koran speaks about war, then it's war.
There are various perspectives in Islam with different interpretations
over the centuries. There were good people that were very enlightened
in Islam that tried to understand things differently. They even brought
traditions from the mouth of the prophet that women and children should
not be killed in war. These more liberal streams do exist, but there is
one thing that is very important for us to remember. The Hanbali school
of law is extremely strict, and today this is the school that is behind
most of the terrorist powers. Even if we talk about the existence of other
schools of Islamic law, when we're talking about fighting against the
Jews, or fighting against the Christian world led by America, it is the
Hanbali school of law that is being followed.
ISLAM AND TERRITORY
This civilization created one very important, fundamental rule about
territory. Any territory that comes under Islamic rule cannot be de-Islamized.
Even if at one time or another, the [non-Moslem] enemy takes over the
territory that was under Islamic rule, it is considered to be perpetually
Islamic. This is why whenever you hear about the Arab/Israeli conflict,
you hear - territory, territory, territory. There are other aspects to
the conflict, but territory is highly important.
The Christian civilization has not only been seen as a religious opponent,
but as a dam stopping Islam from achieving its final goal for which it
was created. Islam was created to be the army of God, the army of Allah.
Every single Moslem is a soldier in this army. Every single Moslem that
dies in fighting for the spread of Islam is a shaheed (martyr) no matter
how he dies, because - and this is very important - this is an eternal
word between the two civilizations. It's not a war that stops. This was
is there because it was created by Allah. Islam must be the ruler. This
is a war that will not end.
ISLAM AND PEACE
Peace in Islam can exist only within the Islamic world; peace can only
be between Moslem and Moslem. With the non-Moslem world or non-Moslem
opponents, there can be only one solution - a cease fire until Moslems
can gain more power. It is an eternal war until the end of days. Peace
can only come if the Islamic side wins. The two civilizations can only
have periods of cease-fires. And this idea of cease-fire is based on a
very important historical precedent, which, incidentally, Yasser Arafat
referred to when he spoke in Johannesburg after he signed the Oslo agreement
with Israel. Let me remind you that the document speaks of peace - you
wouldn't believe that you are reading! You would think that you were reading
some science fiction piece. I mean when you read it, you can't believe
that this was signed by Israelis who are actually acquainted with Islamic
policies and civilization. A few weeks after the Oslo agreement was signed,
Arafat went to Johannesburg, and in a mosque there he made a speech in
which he apologized, saying, "Do you think I signed something with
the Jews which is contrary to the rules of Islam?" (I have obtained
a copy of Arafat's recorded speech so I heard it from his own mouth.)
Arafat continued, "That's not so. I'm doing exactly what the prophet
Mohammed did."
Whatever the prophet is supposed have done becomes a precedent. What
Arafat was saying was, "Remember the story of Hodaybiya." The
prophet had made an agreement there with the tribe of Kuraish for 10 years.
But then he trained 10,000 soldiers and within two years marched on their
city of Mecca. He, of course, found some kind of pretext. Thus, in Islamic
jurisdiction, it became a legal precedent which states that you are only
allowed to make peace for a maximum of 10 years. Secondly, at the first
instance that you are able, you must renew the jihad [thus breaking the
"peace" agreement]. In Israel, it has taken over 50 years in
this country for our people to understand that they cannot speak about
[permanent] peace with Moslems. It will take another 50 years for the
western world to understand that they have got a state of war with the
Islamic civilization that is virile and strong. This should be understood
: When we talk about war and peace, we are not talking in Belgium, French,
English, or German terms. We are talking about war and peace in Islamic
terms.
CEASE-FIRE AS A TACTICAL CHOICE
What makes Islam accept cease-fire? Only one thing - when the enemy
is too strong. It is a tactical choice. Sometimes, he may have to agree
to a cease-fire in the most humiliating conditions. It's allowed because
Mohammed accepted a cease-fire under humiliating conditions. That's what
Arafat said to them in Johannesburg. When western policy makers hear these
things, they answer, "What are you talking about? You are in the
Middle Ages. You don't understand the mechanisms of politics." Which
mechanisms of politics? There are no mechanisms of politics where power
is. And I want to tell you one thing - we haven't seen the end of it,
because the minute a radical Moslem power has atomic, chemical or biological
weapons, they will use it. I have no doubt about that. Now, since we face
war and we know that we cannot get more than an impermanent cease-fire,
one has to ask himself what is the major component of an Israeli/Arab
cease-fire. It is that the Islamic side is weak and your side is strong.
The relations between Israel and the Arab world in the last 50 years since
the establishment of our State has been based only on this idea, the deterrent
power.
WHEREVER YOU HAVE ISLAM, YOU WILL HAVE WAR
The reason that we have what we have in Yugoslavia and other places
is because Islam succeeded into entering these countries. Wherever you
have Islam, you will have war. It grows out of the attitude of Islamic
civilization. What are the poor people in the Philippines being killed
for? What's happening between Pakistan and India?
ISLAMIC INFILTRATION
Furthermore, there is another fact that must be remembered. The Islamic
world has not only the attitude of open war, but there's also war by infiltration.
One of the things which the western world is not paying enough attention
to is the tremendous growth of Islamic power in the western world. What
happened in America and the Twin Towers is not something that came from
the outside. And if America doesn't wake up, one day the Americans will
find themselves in a chemical war and most likely in an atomic war - inside
the U.S.
END OF DAYS
It is highly important to understand how a civilization sees the end
of days. In Christianity and in Judaism, we know exactly what is the vision
of the end of days. In Judaism, it is going to be as in Isaiah - peace
between nations, not just one nation, but between all nations. People
will not have any more need for weapons and nature will be changed - a
beautiful end of days and the kingdom of God on earth. Christianity goes
as far as Revelation to see a day that Satan himself is obliterated. There
are no more powers of evil. That's the vision. I'm speaking now as a historian.
I try to understand how Islam sees the end of days. In the end of days,
Islam sees a world that is totally Moslem, completely Moslem under the
rule of Islam. Complete and final victory. Christians will not exist,
because according to many Islamic traditions, the Moslems who are in hell
will have to be replaced b y somebody and they'll be replaced by the Christians.
The Jews will no longer exist, because before the coming of the end
of days, there is going to be a war against the Jews where all Jews should
be killed. I'm quoting now from the heart of Islamic tradition, from the
books that are read by every child in school. They Jews will all be killed.
They'll be running away and they'll be hiding behind trees and rocks,
and on that day Allah will give mouths to the rocks and trees and they
will say, "Oh Moslem come here, there is a Jew behind me, kill him."
Without this, the end of days cannot come. This is a fundamental of Islam.
Is There a Possibility to End This Dance of War?
The question which we in Israel are asking ourselves is what will happen
to our country? Is there a possibility to end this dance of war? The answer
is, "No. Not in the foreseeable future." What we can do is reach
a situation where for a few years we may have relative quiet. But for
Islam, the establishment of the state of Israel was a reverse of Islamic
history. First, Islamic territory was taken away from Islam by Jews. You
know by now that this can never be accepted, not even one meter. So everyone
who thinks Tel Aviv is safe is making a grave mistake. Territory, which
at one time was dominated by Islamic rule, now has become non-Moslem.
Non-Moslems are independent of Islamic rule; Jews have created their own
independent state. It is anathema. And (th is is the worst) Israel, a
non-Moslem state, is ruling over Moslems. It is unthinkable that non-Moslems
should rule over Moslems.
I believe that Western civilization should
hold together and support each other.
Whether this will happen or not, I don't know. Israel
finds itself on the front lines of this war. It needs the help of its
sister civilization. It needs the help of America and Europe. It needs
the help of the Christian world. One thing I am sure about, this help
can be given by individual Christians who see this as the road to salvation.
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