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government, which prevents Muslim dawah (meaning preaching and spreading

Islam) from entering its land." (Shafii Law o25.0 to o25.9).

Sharia law# o25.9 states:

"(When the caliph appoints a ruler on a region, his duty includes) if the area has

a border adjacent to enemy lands, (he will) undertake Jihad against enemies,

dividing the spoils of battle among combatants and setting aside a fifth for

deserving recipients."

Also:

"The Caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians until theybecome Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax provided he has first

invited them to enter Islam or pay Jizya, the non-Muslim poll tax, (in

accordance with the word of Allah Most High Chapter 9 verse 29)."

Zia-Ul-Haq, former President of Pakistan, said "jihad in terms of warfare is a

collective responsibility of the Muslim Ummah."

One of Islams eminent 20th century scholars, Sheikh Maolana Maududi said:

"Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the

earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the

country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on

the basis of its own ideology and program the objective of Islamic jihad is to

eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish instead an Islamic

system of state rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single

state or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution."

Some people seem to think that such laws are just historical relics, on the

books but not in practice or in control of the minds of Muslims. But that is

the kind of denial we cannot afford; these laws rule the hearts, minds and

actions of a majority of Muslim individuals and states around the world


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today. These scriptures are taught, preached and promoted as the

incontrovertible and eternal word of God and funded by Saudi petrodollars

throughout the world, including Western nations such as the U.K. and the

United States.

No Muslim leader can survive in a Muslim country if he announces the end of

Jihad against non-Muslim countries and states that all references to Jihad in

Islamic law do not apply today. Treating non-Muslim neighboring countries and

individual as equals, with respect and in peace without trying to convert them to

Islam, is simply against Islamic Law.

Muslim leaders who dare to go against this theology are called traitors and

puppets of the Great Satan West. That is a description that no Muslim leader

wants to be labeled with. When president Anwar Sadat of Egypt signed the

peace treaty with Israel in 1979, he told his confidants that he knew he was

signing his own death warrant. He understood that under Sharia he must have

permanent war with non-Muslim Israel.

How can a Muslim leader or individual avoid the hundreds of Quran and Hadith

commandments to Muslims to kill Jews and Christians? Q 9:29: "Fight those whobelieve not in Allah until they pay the Jizya with willing submission and feel

themselves subdued." Q 9:5: "Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them".

Q47.4: "When you encounter the unbelievers, Strike off their heads."

A Muslim leader cannot face his devout Muslim subjects after making a decision

to engage in friendship and peace with Jews. Mosques all over the Middle East,

after all, recite Mohammeds commandment to Muslims:

"The Hour [Resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the

Jews, and kill them. And the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and

the rock and tree will say: oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, this is a Jew

behind me, come and kill him!" (Sahih Muslim 41:6985, also Sahih Bukhari

4:52:177)


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This Hadith, issued by Mohammad, makes a whole group of people illegal to

exist. It was issued in the 7th century, not after the 1948 creation of the State of

Israel. It is not a response to modern-day grievances; it is a permanent

commandment.

Many Muslims claim that Arabs and Jews lived well together for many years

before 1948. But that claim ignores the fact that Jews had to live as Dhimmis

under Islamic Law and were never allowed to rule themselves separate of the

Islamic Sharia. When Muslims were weak they often treated their dhimmi

subjects well and ignored the commandments to kill, subjugate and humiliate

them. But Jew hatred is intrinsic to Islamic scriptures that do not permit

reformation under the penalty of death.

This is the real basis of the Arab/Israeli conflict: not a conflict over land or

occupation, but a divine obligation to destroy neighboring (non-Muslim) Israel,

where Jews are no longer Dhimmis but are free to rule themselves. We cannot

ignore the root of the problem in Muslim scriptures. That is the true force behind

the hate and propaganda Jihadist machine against Jews in the Muslim world.

Some Muslims tell me that they dont believe in Sharia and question why am Imaking a big deal about it. My answer is that Sharia is the law of the land in 54

Muslim countries and many Muslim groups are demanding Sharia in the West. In

1990, 45 Muslim countries signed the Cairo Human Rights Declaration which

stated that Sharia has supremacy over the UN Universal Declaration of Human

Rights.

The Muslim world must look within to its sacred laws, scriptures, sermons,

teaching and preaching, and reform the obstacles for peace that havecondemned them to a permanent state of jihad. The non-Muslim world must have

no illusions.

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