Posted on 04/09/2012 5:24:50 AM PDT by SJackson
Video has recently surfaced of Muslims in Libya desecrating Australian war graves, just weeks after reports that Muslims there, in a rage over Qur’ans accidentally burned in Afghanistan, had also desecrated British graves. Such behavior may seem puzzling to those who believe the statements of Islamic supremacists in the West about how Islam tolerates and respects non-believers and non-Muslim religions; in fact, however, such behavior is fully in accord with standard Islamic theology regarding the nature of non-believing society, and the value of its cultural artifacts.
The general Islamic term for the period of history before the advent of Islam, as well as the pre-Islamic period of any nation’s history, is jahiliyya, or the period of ignorance and barbarism. Consequently, any art, literature, or architecture that any non-Islamic culture produces has no value whatsoever: it is all simply a manifestation of that ignorance and barbarism. The celebrated writer V. S. Naipaul encountered this attitude in his travels through the Islamic world. For Muslims, he observed, “The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.”
Naipaul explained how some Pakistani Muslims, far from valuing the nation’s renowned archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro, see it as a teaching opportunity for Islam:
A featured letter in Dawn offered its own ideas for the site. Verses from the Koran, the writer said, should be engraved and set up in Mohenjo-Daro in “appropriate places”: “Say (unto them, O Mohammed): Travel in the land and see the nature of the sequel for the guilty…Say (O Mohammed, to the disbelievers): Travel in the land and see the nature of the consequence for those who were before you. Most of them were idolaters.”
In other words, Mohenjo Daro has no value for what it reveals about an ancient civilization. Its value is solely in its present condition as a ruin, a sign for the unbelievers of Allah’s wrath. Likewise in Iran. Naipaul notes: “In 637 A.D., just five years after the death of the Prophet, the Arabs began to overrun Persia, and all Persia’s great past, the past before Islam, was declared a time of blackness.”
We have also seen the fruit of this assumption in our own times in Cyprus, where Muslims attempted to use the fourth century monastery of San Makar as a hotel, and in Libya, where Qaddafi turned Tripoli’s Catholic cathedral into a mosque. And the most notorious recent example, of course, was the Taliban’s dynamiting of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001.
The non-Muslim graves in Libya are not, of course, central elements of any country’s cultural patrimony. But the Muslims who felt free to desecrate them were working from the same attitude of contempt for unbelievers and their works. “Muhammad is the Messenger of God,” says the Qur’an, “and those who are with him are hard against the unbelievers, merciful one to another” (48:29). While Muslims are “the best nation ever brought forth to men” (3:110), the “unbelievers of the People of the Book” (that is, Jews and Christians who have refused to become Muslim) “and the idolaters” are the “worst of creatures” (98:6).
When the “worst of creatures” do something that the “best nation ever brought forth to men” finds offensive, the “worst of creatures” have no rights that the members of the “best nation ever brought forth to men” are bound to respect. This holds true even of the dead, who died in unbelief and are thus being tortured in hell by Allah: “We shall certainly roast them at a Fire; as often as their skins are wholly burned, We shall give them in exchange other skins, that they may taste the chastisement. Surely God is All-mighty, All-wise” (4:56).
Ultimately the “worst of creatures” must submit to the rule and hegemony of the “best nation.” The twentieth-century Muslim Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb declared: “If we look at the sources and foundations of modern ways of living, it becomes clear that the whole world is steeped in Jahiliyyah, and all the marvelous material comforts and high-level inventions do not diminish this ignorance. This Jahiliyyah is based on rebellion against God’s sovereignty on earth. It transfers to man one of the greatest attributes of God, namely sovereignty, and makes some men lords over others.” The way to restore Allah’s sovereignty over the earth is to impose Islamic law (Sharia), which mandates a subjugated second-class status for non-Muslims.
It was in this context that the graves were desecrated. Islam mandates a sharp dichotomy between believers and unbelievers, who in the Islamic vision of society can only live in harmony with one another when non-Muslims know their place and submit to the Muslims. The desecration of the graves in Libya was a direct consequence of non-Muslims not knowing that place, and not submitting.
As such, non-Muslim analysts would do well not to see these desecrations as isolated incidents. But given that willful blindness about the ways in which jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism is now official dogma in Washington, never to be questioned, it is much more likely that these incidents will be brushed aside or ignored altogether in the continued quixotic and ever-fruitless effort by the leaders of the “worst of creatures” to win hearts and minds among those of the “best of nations.”
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Islam intends to obliterate all history before Mad Mo, outlaw music and most art, and enslave every woman to a life of forced “marriage” to much older uncles and cousins, where they can be raped with impunity until the “husband” wants a younger wife.
If Western people can’t understand this in time to resist, we are frigging doomed. Just look at Islam’s spread since the time of Mad Mo. It is very rarely pushed back at all, and even now Spain is being conquered again.
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Man...are they in for a surprise.
Wait till they take over France completely.
You think that cemetary in Normandy France that inters so many thousands of our honored dead, dead in the liberation of France, will be spared?
I am positive it won’t.
gleeaikin, returning your ping with a ping, to call attention to last paragraph of the writing posted by SJackson.
Muslims are the ignorant savages. The cult they follow is the cult of beasts and vandals.
Yet how could this be? We are told constantly that Abraham and Moses were muslim. Sacre bleu!
Muslims are a tribe that parties like it’s 636 AD.
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