I thought “jihad” means “spiritual struggle,” not “holy war.” I thought Islam is a peaceful religion that does not want to subjugate the world. Someone forgot to send the memo to these members of the Religion of Peace™.
Hizb ut-Tahrir takes a more gradual, long-term strategy for spreading the territory under Muslim rule.
“Islam obliges Muslims to possess power so that they can intimidate – I would not say terrorize – the enemies of Islam,” says Abu Mohammed, a Hizb ut-Tahrir activist. “In the beginning, the Caliphate would strengthen itself internally and it wouldn’t initiate jihad.”
“But after that we would carry Islam as an intellectual call to all the world,” says Abu Mohammed, a pseudonym. “And we will make people bordering the Caliphate believe in Islam. Or if they refuse then we’ll ask them to be ruled by Islam.”
And after that? Abu Mohammed pauses and fiddles with his Pepsi before replying.
“And if after all discussions and negotiations they still refuse, then the last resort will be a jihad to spread the spirit of Islam and the rule of Islam,” he says, smiling. “This is done in the interests of all people to get them out of darkness and into light.”
What a pleasant little euphemism for murdering people for refusing to change their religious beliefs to yours.
Oh, I expect he’d be willing to let people stay Christians, for a while at least, so long as they lived under the rule of Muslims and endured the system of Apartheid that is the system Sharia demands for dhimmis. Oh, and so long as they paid the sky-high poll taxes, the jizya, that are the ransom dhimmis pay for not being killed out of hand by Muslims.
What an effing arrogant bastard the Father of Mohammed is.
Tiny segment of extremists…not representative…ignore. Keep ignoring until you hear the call to Islam on your own border.
I also loved this line: “Even more moderate Muslim groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt…”
Great find.