Read The Mohammed Code: Why a Desert Prophet Wants You Dead Online
Authors: Howard Bloom
Tags: #jihad, #mohammed, #marathon bombing, #Islam, #prophet, #911, #osama bin laden, #jewish history, #jihadism, #muhammad, #boston bombing, #Terrorism, #islamism, #World history, #muslim
But there’s a blunt fact staring us in the face. Human groups, like colonies of bacteria or groups of chimps, make war. And some of them are very good at it. Militant Islam has been on an imperialist binge since Mohammed’s “invitations” to the kings in 629 AD. Islam’s expansionism, imperialism, and itch for war began 1,316 years before George W. Bush was born. And, like our militarism and determination to spread human rights, gender equality, and democracy, the Moslem itch for empire—the hunger of Islam’s memes--has never ceased.
-end-Why do persistent claims that our enemies are within reveal a peculiar form of racism? Because these beliefs assume that only we omnipotent Westerners can do evil deeds. Worse, these beliefs assume that those outside of our own society are primitive pygmies, too weak to endanger us, too weak to make…and to change… history. This is racism in reverse! And it’s wrong. Profoundly wrong.
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Keep in mind that to the folks of the time—including the young Mohammed—Byzantium was the new Rome, and Byzantium’s empire was The Roman Empire, period. It’s we who insist on the silly and demeaning tactic of calling territories like 6
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century AD Syria parts of “the Byzantine Empire”. See:
Edward Gibbon.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire--Volume IlI.
New York: The Modern Library, New York, or, for a shorter version,
Byzantine Empire. Encyclopædia Britannica, from Encyclopædia Britannica Deluxe Edition 2005 CD. Copyright © 1994-2004 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. May 30, 2004.
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Technically, this unfortunate is sticken with “dropsy”, a form of edema.
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Osama bin Laden would follow Mohammed’s trench-digging example in the Afghan War of 2001. When that combat between al-Quaeda, its Taleban allies, and the American Satan began, Osama personally drove the massive modern construction vehicles with which he and his companions dug defensive trench after defensive trench.
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An Islamic agent was ordered by Mohammed to sow lies among the Jews and the Meccans during the Battle of the Trench. Mohammed told his covert operative, Nu’aym, to “Go and awake distrust among the enemy to draw him off us if you can, for war is deceipt.”
Mohammed was talking to a man who must have been very aware of Mohammed’s pronouncements three years earlier on the use of lies in the murder of Ka’b the poet: “O apostle of God,” said one of the assassins who had volunteered to do the dirty deed, “we shall have to tell lies.” Mohammed answered with an uncaring, “Say what you like, for you are free in the matter.”
To start a wave of distrust among the enemy at the Battle of the Trench, Mohammed’s covert agent, Nu’aym approached a group of Jews who had been Nu’aym’s best friends from childhood. He “remind[ed] them of his affection for them and of the special tie between them”. In reality, friendship was not Nu’aym’s intention. His goal was the death of the Jews to whom he was pretending warmth and loyalty. With this bait, Nu’aym lured the Jews into a trap that would make them hated by their Meccan allies.
One of Nu’aym’s standard phrases for winning the trust of those he was about to betray went like this: “You are my stock and my family and the dearest of men to me.” So when you hear a phrase of that sort from a militant Moslem who tells you he wants peace and friendship, be very, very careful. He may, in fact, be using these words to make war. For the full story, see: A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: pp. 458-459.
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Like early Moslem’s militants, the Iroquois Indians used the bonding power of terror…and worse. They marched enormous distances to make war on unsuspecting Native American villagers. Once they’d conquered a settlement, they took the inhabitants who remained alive as prisoners, tortured them until they broke them, then distributed them as slaves. The Iroquois approach showed the hunger of one superorganism to swallow another in a particularly graphic way. If the Iroquois warriors failed to crack the will of a captive and make him or her suitably subservient, they took another approach to digesting their victim. They literally ate him. (see: Daniel Richter. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 1992.)
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The Eastern Roman Empire’s capital was Constantinople, otherwise known as Byzantium. But in the days of Mohammed, this wasn’t regarded as a Byzantine Empire. It was seen as a new Rome even more Roman than the original. (See Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire--Volume II: 395 A.D.--1185 A.D.. New York: The Modern Library, New York.)
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When the Moslem armies defeated the Sassanian Persians, sacked their capital Ctesiphon--the home base of Nestorian Christianity—and conquered most of Iraq.
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When the English, French, and Russians allied and destroyed the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet.
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In 1127 AD the Spanish-born traveler and scholar Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Walid al-Tartushi, Abu Bakr of Tortosa, went through the holy books of Islam and the books of fiqh, the collected rulings of Islamic scholars, to derive God’s own laws for warfare, the stratagems used by Allah’s one true prophet, Mohammed. He came to the conclusion that, “As to those whom it is lawful to slay, the fiqh declares that a Muslim in war may slay any unbeliever (idolator) whether combatant or not” and “...war means deception... the most effective stratagem in war is the ambush. Not too many men must be employed in it; one good one being better than ten thousand others...in surprise lies destructive effect." Reuben Levy. The Social Structure of Islam: Being the Second Edition of the Sociology of Islam. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1957. p. 456.
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The former prime minister Dr. Anees served was Anwar Ibrahim—who was groomed as the successor to Malaysia’s “duly-elected” prime minister—the country’s actual dictator Mahathir Muhammad. In 1998, Newsweek Magazine named Anwar Ibrahim “The Asian of the Year”. And in 1999, when Ibrahim emerged as Mahathir Muhammad’s chief critic, he was jailed on what most believe were trumped up charges of sexual misbehavior. (See the chapter on Inwar Ibrahim in: John L. Esposito, John Obert Voll. Makers of Contemporary Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: pp. 177-198.)
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Periodica Islamica
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The International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies.
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'Ali Akbar Ghifari. Beacons of Light. Translated and annotated by Dr. Mahmoud M. Ayoub. Originally published in 1399. Beirut, Lebanon: 1979. Reprinted online by the Aalulbayt Global Information Center. "to spread the Shi’ite culture through the WEB and create a kind of strong relation between the theological class and the public, [Aalulbayt Global Information Center] is being managed under the supervision of the office of His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sistani (may Allah protect him)." Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web
http://www.al-shia.com/html/eng/books/becons-of-light/03.htm. See also: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) also said, 'I am the Prophet of mercy and I am the Prophet of war.' Dr. Ahmad Abu Al-Wafa, Professor of the International Law at the Faculty of Law, Cairo University. "Killing Wounded Enemy Soldiers.” Fatwa Bank. IslamOnline
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:yL84yM3tRoAJ:www.islamonline.net/fatwa/english/FatwaDisplay.asp%3FhFatwaID%3D103297+%22the+prophet+of+war%22&hl=en&client=googlet.
And see "The Prophet of War" in Osama bin Laden. Complete Text Of Sheikh Osama Bin Laden’s Latest Message To Ummah, May 12, 2004.
Retrieved from the World Wide Web May 14, 2004: http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=572&list=/home.php&
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The number of Prophets Moslems believe Allah sent varies widely, but the Qur’an is quite clear that there were "messengers whom We have mentioned to you before, and messengers whom We have not mentioned to you" (Al-Nisa, 4:164). The Institute of Islamic Information and Education says, “: How many prophets has God sent to humanity? We do not know for sure. Some Muslim scholars have suggested 240 thousand prophets.” Prophethood in Islam. Chicago, IL: The Institute of Islamic Information and Education, III&E Brochure Series; No. 3. Reprinted with the permission of World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), P.O. Box 10845, Riyadh 11443, Saudi Arabia. In
USC-MSA (University of Southern California-Muslim Students’ Association) Compendium of Muslim Texts.
Retrieved January 12, 2007, from the World Wide Web
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/prophet/prophethoodinislam.html
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“It is obligatory, however, to believe in the 25 prophets mentioned by name in the Qur’an: Adam, Idris, Nuh (Noah), Hud (sent to the ‘Aad people), Salih (sent to the Thamud), Ibrahim (Abraham), Lut (Lot), Isma’eel (Ishmael), Ishaq (Isaac), Ya’qub (Jacob) also known as Isra’eel (Israel), Yusuf (Joseph), Ayyub (Job), Shu’ayb (sent to Madyan), Musa (Moses), Harun (Aaron), Dhul-Kifl (Ezekiel), Dawud (David), Sulayman (Solomon), Al-Yasa’, Illyas (Elias), Yunus (Jonah), Zakariyya (Zacharias), Yahya (John), Isa (Jesus) and Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon them all).”
Abu al-Hassan. Prophets and messengers of Allah. Gulf Times, Doha, Qatar. August 11, 2006. http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=101919&version=1&template_id=47&parent_id=27
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The Moral System of Islam, III&E Brochure Series; No. 6
(published by The Institute of Islamic Information and Education (III&E)).
USC-MSA (University of Southern California-Muslim Students’ Association) Compendium of Muslim Texts.
Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/moralsystem.html
Reprinted with the permission of World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), P.O. Box 10845, Riyadh 11443, Saudi Arabia.
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Khalid M. Baheyeldin. “Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Walid al-Tartushi .” In “The Baheyeldin Dynasty.” 2002.
http://baheyeldin.com/history/abu-bakr-muhammad-ibn-al-walid-al-tartushi.html
. Reuben Levy. The Social Structure of Islam: Being the Second Edition of the Sociology of Islam. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1957: p. 456. Yassine Essid.
A Critique of the Origins of Islamic Economic Thought.
Brill Academic Publishers, 1995: pp 32-33.
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Say ye: "We believe in Allah and the revelation given to us and to Abraham Isma`il Isaac Jacob and the Tribes and that given to Moses and Jesus and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord we make no difference between one and another of them and we bow to Allah (in Islam)." The Holy Qur’an. Chapter 2, verse 136. Translation by Abdullah Yusufali. Retrieved January 5, 2007, from the World Wide Web
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/islam/
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Muhammad H. Haykal. The Life Of Muhammad. Translated by Isma’il Raji al-Faruqi. Islamic Book Trust, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 2002.
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Syed Saeed Akhtar Rizvi. The Life of Muhammad The Prophet. Published by: Darul Tabligh North America Under the Patronage of World Federation of KSI Muslim Communities, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA. Reproduced with permission by the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project team. Retrieved January 5, 2007, from the World Wide Web
http://www.al-islam.org/lifeprophet/10.htm
. The phrase, "There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is His Prophet," appears in translation in many other forms.
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For a typical use of the term “slave of god,” try this: "Almighty God has bestowed on his servants the bounty of Islam, and liberated them from the yoke of slavery to be the slaves of God alone, slaves of the Almighty, the only divine power." Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Prime Minister and Commander of the National Guard. Eid messages from King Fahd and the royal princes, February 18, 1996. Saudi Embassy Website. Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web
www.saudiembassy.net/1996News/News/IslDetail.asp?cIndex=4230