Robert Spencer: Muslims Wouldn’t Bomb Muhammad’s City, Would They? Sure They Would.

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ProphetsMosqueMedinaThe Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Medina shows once and for all that ISIS is not Islamic, right? After all, how could a Muslim group, much less a self-styled “caliphate,” set off a bomb in the city of Muhammad himself? That proves that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam, no? That’s what many Muslims would have us believe. Unfortunately, this is just more deception from practiced masters of deceit – and it’s deception that is increasingly dangerous and offensive as the jihad death count climbs ever higher.

Maher Zain, a Multi Platinum-winning singer and songwriter who is Muslim, wrote on Twitter to his 1.47 million followers: “Still need proof that ISIS is the foremost enemy of Islam? They attack the Prophet’s City. Terror knows no religion!” Boxer Amir Khan tweeted to his 1.75 million followers: “The attack in our beloved Prophet Muhammad’s city Madinah proves that Isis has no religion!” The UK Muslim broadcaster Mohammed Shafiq wrote: “The attack on #Madinah was an attack against all Muslims. We need unity against this evil.”

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Neither Zain nor Khan nor Shafiq nor anyone else, however, explained why this it would be out of the question for jihadis to strike in Medina. Did Muhammad command jihad warfare against unbelievers? Yes: a hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them. (Sahih Muslim 4294)

In commanding this, did Muhammad forbid jihad against unbelievers in his city? He did not. But of course, in Medina there are only Muslims, no? And the Qur’an forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims (4:92). But Islam also mandates death for those who are considered heretics and apostates – and the Islamic State, in claiming to be the caliphate, the one true government to which all Muslims owe allegiance, and in demanding the obedience of all Muslims worldwide, has placed itself in the position of considering any Muslims who reject its authority to be heretical by virtue of that very rejection, and therefore worthy of death.

That is all the more true regarding governments of Muslim states that do not accept the caliphate. The Islamic State regards the House of Saud as illegitimate, and therefore to undermine it is a holy act. Reuters reported Sunday that the Islamic State jihadis targeted “a security headquarters at a mosque in the holy city of Medina,” and that “a suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the security headquarters of the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, the second-holiest site in Islam. Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said an initial death toll from the Medina blast included three suicide bombers and two security forces officers.”

So the target was not Muhammad’s mosque itself, but a security headquarters nearby – an outpost of the hated Saudi state, which the Islamic State considers to be heretical and apostate. Considered in light of the other recent Islamic State jihad bombings in Turkey, Bangladesh, and Iraq, it becomes clear: the Islamic State is targeting Muslim countries and trying to undermine their governments, with the ultimate goal of bringing them into the purview of its caliphate. However unattainable that goal may be in practice, it doesn’t prevent them from killing people in hopes of bringing it closer to attainment, and in hopes of pleasing their god who commands jihad warfare against unbelievers, without exempting Muslim rulers who are deemed to have left the straight path.

There is no doubt, however, that the deception and denial will continue. The lies from Islamic apologists are as much of a certainty in life as death and taxes, if not more so.

After Islamic State jihadists screaming “Allahu akbar” murdered twenty hostages at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka on the night of July 1, the serially deceptive Islamic apologist Qasim Rashid tweeted: “In #Ramadan’s final 10 days, Daesh has mass murdered dozens in three Muslim majority nations Please tell me more about how Islamic they are.” In another tweet, he included a photo captioned: “So you’re telling me they killed Muslims during Ramadan and you still blame Islam? Are you that incompetent or that bigoted?” To that, Rashid added: “Likewise, how I feel when I hear Islamophobes claim Islam was somehow behind the #DhakaAttack.”

Echoing Rashid was no less illustrious a personage than Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who insisted: “Anyone who believes in religion cannot do such act. They do not have any religion, their only religion is terrorism.”

This from a woman who adheres to a religion whose holy book three times exhorts Muslims to kill unbelievers (2:191, 4:89, 9:5), and tells believers to “strike the necks” of unbelievers (47:4) and to “strike terror in the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60). In other words, she must know better when she says “their only religion is terrorism” Even after the Medina bombing, their religion is quite clear. And unless and until the West starts to speak honestly about this motivating ideology of terrorism, and to formulate realistic ways to confront it, it will continue to advance.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

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NotTheMama
NotTheMama
7 years ago

The Saudi King(s) label themselves as “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques”. Needs to step up their game a bit.

Trident
Trident
7 years ago

ISIS……USA (CIA) Great Britain (MI6) Israel (Mosad) hard at work keeping the blood flowing ..
Chaos across the board …Using the Muslims as a proxy ….NWO at its finest..
We will never know the truth ..All by design..

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  Trident

For the allahtard, it’s always allah about the Jews.

J Ian
J Ian
7 years ago
Reply to  Trident

Sure buddy. Muslims are attacking in every country in the world. You can blame others, but it is always your “cockroach”, satan worshiping assholes, that behead, rape, kill, etc., to try and make us follow allah. Pack a lunch muther fucker. aint never gonna happen

Michael B
Michael B
7 years ago
Reply to  J Ian

Ever noticed when Muzzies commit their crimes it’s always 4 or 5 of them against a single victim they’re just plain cowards nothing more.

J Ian
J Ian
7 years ago
Reply to  Michael B

The terrorism is daily, all around the globe.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

muslims like to die as they get to go to their demon immediately. The sacrifice of a few of the “faithful” in even some special muslim place is good propaganda, the demon will reward the martyrs, it’s all good.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago

Ramadan holey? The muslum apes from Syria and Egyptistan attacked Israel in the ’73’ Yom Kippur War during Ramadan.

billrowland
billrowland
7 years ago

As long as the muslims keep killing each other in their own cesspit I don’t care.

SlayerofBodom
SlayerofBodom
7 years ago
Reply to  billrowland

My sentiments precisely.

tut
tut
7 years ago

They all suck alike

Infidel Indian
Infidel Indian
7 years ago

Muhammed conducted the first recorded attack on a Mosque. So this is Sunna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_of_Masjid_al-Dirar

Satan is Allah
Satan is Allah
7 years ago

Muslims are so Stupid. They think “Allah” is GOD and their “prophet” is a Pedophile.

Peter Joffe
Peter Joffe
7 years ago

This is very good news and it shows that the keepers of Islam, in this case Saudi Arabia, breed hatred to them selves. Terrorism and hatred knows no boundaries so if you keep the faith of the Quran you too will meet the killings that it advocates. A disease like Islam has to be placed into isolation otherwise it will spread. If you sow you WILL reap the evil that you sow.

Michael B
Michael B
7 years ago
Reply to  Peter Joffe

A house divided cannot stand

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  Michael B

One of Yeshua’s more relevant quotes to today’s ugly world.

1PierreMontagne1D
1PierreMontagne1
7 years ago

Like it or not the House of Saud is guilty of exploitative profiteering having commercialized the Holy city of Medina and even worse made Mecca into a creation of idolatrous monuments all contrary to what is prohibited in Islam.
Yes the Shiites of Tehran would Nuke Mecca and Riyadh and the Saudi’s know it.

…seems everything was going fine until the Shia in the Oval office aka POTUS removed all the Saudi inspired sanctions against Iran.
for the Saudis..it’s the fear of that twelver thing.

Badger
Badger
7 years ago

Islam is the world’s misfortune.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

It just goes to show you that with muzzies nothing is too sacred or precious to be defiled or destroyed.

iprazhm
iprazhm
7 years ago

“So the target was not Muhammad’s mosque itself, but a security headquarters nearby – an outpost of the hated Saudi state, which the Islamic State considers to be heretical and apostate. Considered in light of the other recent Islamic State jihad bombings in Turkey, Bangladesh, and Iraq, it becomes clear: the Islamic State is targeting Muslim countries and trying to undermine their governments, with the ultimate goal of bringing them into the purview of its caliphate. However unattainable that goal may be in practice, it doesn’t prevent them from killing people in hopes of bringing it closer to attainment, and in hopes of pleasing their god who commands jihad warfare against unbelievers, without exempting Muslim rulers who are deemed to have left the straight path.

There is no doubt, however, that the deception and denial will continue. The lies from Islamic apologists are as much of a certainty in life as death and taxes, if not more so.” Robert Spencer

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