ISLAM IS NOT PRIMARILY A RELIGION
Early in December the UK
Independent reported that Canon Andrew White, known as the Vicar of Baghdad,
and who runs the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East,
reported that Islamists with ISIS beheaded four young Christian children in Iraq
for refusing to convert to Islam. The
children, all under 15, were ordered to convert to Islam. They refused and said, “We love Yeshua”. Canon White also reported that Islamists cut
in half a five year old boy he had
baptized. We in the west are horrified
by such acts, but we have to get used to the fact that Islamists consider such
actions as righteous. They have no moral
reservations against butchering children who they view as infidels. This is not new. The practice goes back to the origins of
Islam.
In previous blogs, I have
stated that Islam is not primarily a religion.
It is an ideology of a totalitarian governmental system bent on world
domination. That conclusion is not
original with me. Many have been making
that statement for centuries. Here are some examples:
“The Islamic calendar starts
with the hijra, the migration of Muhammad and his small band of followers from
Mecca to Yathrib, which they conquered from within and renamed Medina. Medina is where Islam became a state, and where
Muhammad’s heretical Judeo-Christian mishmash transformed from a religion into
an ideology. The most important outcome
of the Hijra was the spread of Islam…not only as a religion but a combined,
socio-religious and socio-political system.” (Solomon and Maqdisi, Modern
Day Trojan Horse: Al-Hijra: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration, p. 20)
Solomon was an ulama. That is an expert
in Islamic law.
“The propagation of their
mad, bad ideology-decency forbids calling it a religion-had been taking place
before our eyes.” Margaret Thatcher
wrote this in her book Statecraft as
she discussed 9/11.
French statesman Andre’
Malraux wrote , “The outstanding event of our time is the violence of the
advance of Islam. Underestimated by most
of our contemporaries, the ascendancy of Islam is analogically comparable to
the beginnings of communism at the time of Lenin” (Conversation
sur l’Islam avec Andre’ Malraux)
Pakistani Salafist leader
Syed Abul Ala Maududi said, “Islam is not merely a religious creed but a
revolutionary ideology and jihad refers to that revolutionary struggle…to
destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth, which are
opposed to the ideology and program of Islam” (Jihad in Islam, pp 26,27)
Maududi also said at the same time, “The Five Pillars of Islam cry out for a state to exist in order for
their full establishment to be achieved.
This is the nature of Islam as it is an ideology.”
Swiss Theologian Karl Barth
wrote, “It is impossible to understand national socialism unless we see it in
fact as a new Islam, its myth as a new Allah, and Hitler as this new Allah’s
prophet” (The Church and the Political Problem of Our Day, p. 43)
Middle East Professor,
Bernard Lewis compared Islam to another totalitarian ideology: “The traditional
Islamic division of the world into the House of Islam and the House of War..has
obvious parallels in the Communist view of world affairs…The aggressive
fanaticism of the believer is the same.” (Communism
and Islam, p. 12)
Urbain Vermeulen, former
president of the European Union of Arabists and Islamicists, says, “Islam is
primarily a legal system, a law. Islam
is not concerned primarily with the detailed content of the faith…but with what
the believer must and/or may do or not do.
Islam is 10% religion, while 90% deals with how people have to behave in
accordance with Islamic law based on divine revelations Muhammad received when
he was a political leader in Medina.
Islam becomes problematic when it tries to impose—as Allah says it
must—Islamic holy law on the whole of society.”(Katholick Nieuuwsblad, Apr. 27, 2007)
American political scientist
Mark Alexander writes, “One of our greatest mistakes is to think of Islam as
just another one of the world’s great religions. The fundamental nature of Islam differs very
little from despicable totalitarian political ideologies such as National
Socialism and communism.” (Librabunda,
May 27, 2007)
Egyptian-born daughter of an
Egyptian Islamic martyr, Nonie Darwish says, “Islam as a whole is a political
and legal system of totalitarian control…The most flaring evidence that Islam
is hardly a religion is in its apostasy law—the order to kill those who leave
it. That immediately moved Islam from
the realm of religion to the realm of totalitarian political ideology. (Cruel
and Unusual Punishment, p. 198)
Islam fails four major tests that religions should fulfill: 1. Adherence to the religion must be a personal
choice. 2, No religion should demand that those who
leave it be killed. 3. A religion must never mandate the killing and
subjugation of those who choose not to belong.
4. A religion must be in accord
with basic human rights. (Kainz, Islam and
the Definition of Religion, July 10, 2010)
Ali Sina, an Iranian
ex-Muslim says, “The reason I am against Islam is not because it is a religion,
but because it is a political ideology of imperialism and domination in the
guise of religion.”
(Faith Freedom International, Oct. 8, 2005)
Robert Spencer writes in The Truth About Muhammad, “Under the
guise of freedom of religion, Islam is exploiting our laws to erode everyone
else’s freedom of speech. We should not
allow total freedom to an ideology that intends to force upon us the grim
choice of death, enslavement, or conversion to Islam—which is the fate of all
non-Muslims as prescribed by Muhammad himself” (p. 153)
As I reviewed these
observations of Muslims and non-Muslims, I could not help but see how many drew
the parallel of Islam with the National Socialists of Hitler’s era and the
Communists. Winston Churchill made the same
connection. The bottom line is that
Islam is an ideology of a totalitarian governmental system with a religious
component. Any who treat it as another
religion do so at their own peril. We
have only to watch Europe’s disaster as they have foolishly allowed Muslims to
set up enclaves of Sharia Law within their borders and given their enemies
political power which will be the end of Europe as we have known it. Any nation that treats Islam as primarily a
religion is committing suicide.
