Muslim Disinformation Campaign: Throwing dust in the eyes of the infidels

Pipes adds: "Jihad was no abstract obligation through the centuries, but a key aspect of Muslim life. . . . Within a century after the prophet’s death in 632, Muslim armies had reached as far as India in the east and Spain in the west. Though such a dramatic single expansion was never again to be repeated, important victories in subsequent centuries included the seventeen Indian campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazna (r. 998-1030), the battle of Manzikert opening Anatolia (1071), the conquest of Constantinople (1453), and the triumphs of Uthman dan Fodio in West Africa (1804-17). In brief, jihad was part of the warp and woof not only of premodern Muslim doctrine but of premodern Muslim life."

Islam gains its power from the frustrations of its underclass. For the early Arab fighters, the loot from conquest meant that they could afford to support a wife, and the female captives from conquest were a supply of wives. Once the conquering expansion of Islam was halted, Islam degenerated into poverty.

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