Paul Sutliff exposes the lies and propaganda being spread by
Muslim apologist Linda Sarsour.
JRH 7/11/17
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Linda Sarsour: Lying about Islamic History and Jihad
By Paul Sutliff
July 9, 2017
This past week Linda Sarsour
used the word jihad and spoke of resisting the administration and fighting
against tyrants. People who want you to remain ignorant off the truth took to
the Washington Post on Sunday to obfuscate the term "jihad." What
needs to be known is that her consistent usage of the term resistance and the
constant reference to her feelings of angst against those who would keep
Islamic terrorists from entering America fit perfectly in the last fatwa by the
last Caliph in 1915.
The 1915 fatwa was discovered
by Ambassador Morgenthau in 1915 and sent to America, where it was kept as top
secret until the 1960s. This is extremely important to understand because it
reveals that the federal government feared releasing this information in the
United States may cause Muslims to rise up and commit acts of jihad at home.
Linda Sarsour’s comments reveal that keeping this fatwa hidden has mis-educated
Americans about what Islam truly believes in regards to the Islamic term
“jihad.”
We are told we must learn
from history or we are doomed to repeat it. This is why historical
understanding of the term jihad is extremely important. For this reason I
am posting part of a chapter from my book Civilization Jihad and the
Myth of Moderate Islam published in 2015.
In
November 1915, a call for jihad was given by the Caliph
Sheik-ul-Islam after the Ottoman Empire declared war against the Allies.
Ambassador Morgenthau, described the event in his biography.
Sheik-ul-Islam
published his proclamation, summoning the whole Moslem world to arise and
massacre their Christian oppressors. "Oh, Moslems!" concluded this
document. "Ye who are smitten with happiness and are on the verge of
sacrificing your life and your goods for the cause of right, and of braving
perils, gather now around the Imperial throne, obey the commands of the
Almighty, who, in the Koran, promises us bliss in this and in the next world;
embrace ye the foot of the Caliph's throne and know ye that the state is at war
with Russia, England, France, and their Allies, and that these are the enemies
of Islam. The Chief of the believers, the Caliph, invites you all as Moslems to
join in the Holy War!"[i]
According
to the Ambassador this was distributed and read in mosques in “India, China,
Persia, Egypt, Algiers, Tripoli, Morocco, and the like; in all these places it
was read to the assembled multitudes and the populace was exhorted to obey the
mandate.”[ii]BUT,
what was also being distributed in the same areas was a pamphlet written in
Arabic heavily filled with quotes from the Koran. This pamphlet in English contained
10,000 words that incited racial and religious hatred. “It described a detailed
plan of operations for the assassination and extermination of all
Christians---except those of German nationality.”[iii]
That
pamphlet was translated into English on March 10, 1915. When Ambassador
Morgenthau wrote his story of what happened during the Great War (World War 1)
he felt that this fatwa had to be shared with the American people so they would
understand what happened. Below is one portion he shared.
O
people of the faith and O beloved Moslems, consider, even though but for a
brief moment, the present condition of the Islamic world. For if you consider
this but for a little you will weep long. You will behold a bewildering state
of affairs which will cause the tear to fall and the fire of grief to blaze.
You see the great country of India, which contains hundreds of millions of
Moslems, fallen, because of religious divisions and weaknesses, into the grasp
of the enemies of God, the infidel English. You see forty, millions of Moslems
in Java shackled by the chains of captivity and of affliction under the rule of
the Dutch, although these infidels are much fewer in number than the faithful
and do not enjoy a much higher civilization. You see Egypt, Morocco, Tunis,
Algeria, and the Sudan suffering the extremes of pain and groaning in the grasp
of the enemies of God and his apostle. You see the vast country of Siberia and
Turkestan and Khiva and Bokhara and the Caucasus and the Crimea and Kazan and
Ezferhan and Kosahastan, whose Moslem peoples believe in the unity of God,
ground under the feet of their oppressors, who are the enemies already of our
religion. You behold Persia being prepared for partition and you see the city
of the Caliphate, which for ages has unceasingly fought breast to breast with
the enemies of our religion, now become the target for oppression and violence.
Thus wherever you look you see that the enemies of the true religion,
particularly the English, the Russian, and the French, have oppressed Islam and
invaded its rights in every possible way. We cannot enumerate the insults we
have received at the hands of these nations who desire totally to destroy Islam
and drive all Mohammedans off the face of the earth. This tyranny has passed
all endurable limits; the cup of our oppression is full to overflowing. . . .
In brief, the Moslems work and the infidels eat; the Moslems are hungry and
suffer and the infidels gorge themselves and live in luxury. The world of Islam
sinks down and goes backward, and the Christian world goes forward and is more
and more exalted. The Moslems are enslaved and the infidels are the great
rulers. This is all because the Moslems have abandoned the plan set forth in
the Koran and ignored the Holy War which it commands. . . . But the time has
now come for the Holy War, and by this the land of Islam shall be forever freed
from the power of the infidels who oppress it. This holy war has now become a
sacred duty. Know ye that the blood of infidels in the Islamic lands may be
shed with impunity---except those to whom the Moslem power has promised
security and who are allied with it. [Herein we find that Germans and Austrians
are excepted from massacre.] The killing of infidels who rule over
Islam has become a sacred duty, whether you do it secretly or openly,
as the Koran has decreed: 'Take them and kill them whenever you find
them. Behold we have delivered them unto your hands and given you supreme power
over them.' He who kills even one unbeliever of those who rule over us, whether
he does it secretly or openly, shall be rewarded by God. And let every Moslem,
in whatever part of the world he may be, swear a solemn oath to kill at least
three or four of the infidels who rule over him, for they are the enemies of
God and of the faith. Let every Moslem know that his reward for doing so shall
be doubled by the God who created heaven and earth. A Moslem who does this
shall be saved from the terrors of the day of Judgment, of the resurrection of
the dead. Who is the man who can refuse such a recompense for such a
small deed? … Yet the time has come that we should rise up as the
rising of one man, in one hand a sword, in the other a gun, in his pocket balls
of fire and death-dealing missiles, and in his heart the light of the faith,
and that we should lift up our voices, saying India for the Indian Moslems,
Java for the Javanese Moslems, Algeria for the Algerian Moslems, Morocco for
the Moroccan Moslems, Tunis for the Tunisian Moslems, Egypt for the Egyptian
Moslems, Iran for the Iranian Moslems, Turan for the Turanian Moslems, Bokhara
for the Bokharan Moslems, Caucasus for the Caucasian Moslems, and the Ottoman
Empire for the Ottoman Turks and Arabs.[iv] [Emphasis
added]
The
1915 fatwa piece you just read was hidden from the American people as a
classified document until 1961. The State Department kept this under lock and
key because of its incendiary nature. Interestingly under new Common Core
American education curriculum standards, it is a Primary Source Document as
Ambassador Morgenthau named it as the cause of the Armenian Genocide in his
biography and in numerous communications with Washington.
The
rest of the document revealed a call on every Muslim to one of three levels of
Jihad:
1.
Heart Jihad
2.
Word of Mouth Jihad
3.
Physical Jihad
The
fact that an Islamic Holy War can have warriors engaged at one of three levels
is significant as previous to this the concept of jihad on
differing levels was unknown to those who are not Muslim.
Heart Jihad
This
concept of jihad (holy war) as stated above was unknown to
exist the fatwa was read. It simply stated:
This
is the easiest and simplest. In this case it is to suppose that every
unbeliever is an enemy to persecute and exterminate him from the face of the
earth. There is not a Muslim in the world who is not inspired by
this idea. However in the Koran it said: “That such a war is not enough for a
Muslim whether young or old, and must also participate in the other parts of
the Holy War.[v]
This
second level of warfare can take the appearance of deceit to obtain influence
and strength. This is the level at which Civilization Jihad takes place. The
reasoning again is that they are not strong enough in number to take part in
the third level.
In
North America this war has been waged by forcing textbook publishers to provide
textbooks that promote Islam instead of an objective review of the religion
(See Chapter 5 for more detail.). Triple I-T, the International Institute of
Islamic Thought, fights this battle in North America by giving colleges large
sums of money to install Islamic professors. Another place this battle can be
seen is through the concept of Islamization of Knowledge a teaching by Dr.
Ismail Faruqi that all knowledge is only acceptable after Islam has purified
it.
College
professors of Islam are encouraged by this reasoning to provide some incitement
to rally for Hamas by calling it a rally for the Gazan Palestinians and
offering extra credit to those who show, and not informing those who do they
are likely to have their pictures taken and an FBI file started on them. It is
the level of jihad that led Jasser Auda of the International Institute of
Islamic Thought, to redefine terrorism to mean: an act in which “innocent
People (civilians or non-civilians) are harmed in a way that goes against the
principles of justice and human dignity.”[vii] The
word “innocent” has a specific meaning to Muslims that Westerners are unaware
of. Imam Anjem Chaudry shared this one evening on BBC’s Hard Talk on July 7,
2005. He said, “As far as Muslims are concerned your innocent if you…you are a Muslim, then you are innocent in the eyes of
God. You are non- Muslim then you are guilty of not-believing in God.”[viii]
This
also explains the push to attain powerful places of power in the major U.S. and
Canadian political parties. It is the reasoning by the bus ad campaign My
Jihad, which promoted misinformation and a favorable outlook on Islam.
Physical Jihad
Lastly,
the fatwa defines jihad, holy war as a hot physical activity. But
allows for those who fund the battle to be included at this, the highest level
of jihad
Physical Jihad.
This means actual fighting in the fullest sense of the word… Every private individual can fight with deadly
weapons, as for example. Here is the following illustration of the late
Egyptian Verdani who shot the unbelieving Butros Gal Pacha the friend of the
English with a revolver. The murder of one of the English police Commissioner
Bavaro in India by one of our Indian brethren. The killing of one of the
officials of Kansch on his coming from Mecca by the Prophet’s friend ”Abu Bazir
El Pachbi,” peace be unto him! Abdallah ibn Aatickand four colleagues killed
“Abu Raafa Ibn El Hakiki.” The leader of the Jews so famous for his enmity to
Islamism. This was executed by our Prophet’s command, so did Avrala Ibn Ravacha
and his friends when they killed Ocher Ibn Dawas one of the Jewish dignitaries.
There are many instances of similar cases. Lord of the Universal What fails us
now, and should not some of us go forth to fight this sacred war for exalting
thy glorious name? What could not happen were some individuals among us, men of
courage and stout hearted kill the principal Christian men of the Triple
Alliance, the foes of Islam. By so doing they would wipe their names from the
face of the earth. Thou
O Allah art responsible if you will not inspire every Muslim, with the holy
spirit, to in this jihad {holy
war}.[ix]
The
violent concept of jihad was taken after this reading of the 1915 fatwa that
led to the genocide of the Armenian people. This document was seen to be so
inciteful that the US government classified this document as dangerous and hid
it from the people until 1961. Note that specific references were given to
violent actions of assassination as part of jihad. Jihad is here shown clearly
by a Caliph to mean a violent act against non-Muslims.
This
caliph was very specific as to what was considered Physical War. He broke it
into two categories.
A
Lesser War and a Greater War
The
lesser war, is when a certain section of Muslims rise to fight against their
enemies in combination with their compatriots in the war sphere only, without
summoning the aid of Muslims of other lands. For example the Sinoussians war
with the Italians in Tripoli. Even in such a case every Muslim should
offer material and moral help and not follow the course the Egyptian
Government took in the Italian war when acting under the advice of the
unbelieving English Government they declared themselves neutral. This sin shall
never be forgiven them. However our Egyptian brethren have helped us to a
certain degree financially and morally in the last two wars and in spite of
their unbelieving rulers forwarded their collections on our behalf to the
Capital of the Caliphate.[x](Emphasis
added)
The
concept of a lesser war is simply one that the Caliph does not declare and one
in which no aid is requested of Muslims of other lands. Note the reference here
to support. In today’s concept of Islamic Jihad, there are many Muslims
who offer material and moral help. One only need look at the ISIS
social networking to see people around the world standing with their black flag
next to landmarks of countries all around the globe.
However,
the concept of greater war, one declared by a Caliph which called Muslims to
action can be viewed in terms of the result of this fatwa. The near entire
genocide of the Armenian people. Ambassador Morgenthau wrote many details of
this horror, below is just one event:
Let
me relate a single episode which is contained in one of the reports of our
consuls and which now forms part of the records of the American State
Department. Early in July, 2,000 Armenian "amŽlŽs"---such
is the Turkish word for soldiers who have been reduced to workmen---were sent from Harpoot to build roads. The Armenians in
that town understood what this meant and pleaded with the Governor for mercy.
But this official insisted that the men were not to be harmed, and he even
called upon the German missionary, Mr. Ehemann, to quiet the panic, giving that
gentleman his word of honour that the ex-soldiers would be protected. Mr.
Ehemann believed the Governor and assuaged the popular fear. Yet practically
every man of these 2,000 was massacred, and his body thrown into a cave. A few
escaped, and it was from these that news of the massacre reached the world. A
few days afterward another 2,000 soldiers were sent to Diarbekir. The only purpose
of sending these men out in the open country was that they might be massacred.
In order that they might have no strength to resist or to escape by flight,
these poor creatures were systematically starved. Government agents went ahead
on the road, notifying the Kurds that the caravan was approaching and ordering
them to do their congenial duty. Not only did the Kurdish tribesmen pour down
from the mountains upon this starved and weakened regiment, but the Kurdish
women came with butcher's knives in order that they might gain that merit in
Allah's eyes that comes from killing a Christian. These massacres were not
isolated happenings; I could detail many more episodes just as horrible as the
one related above; throughout the Turkish Empire a systematic attempt was made
to kill all able-bodied men, not only for the purpose of removing all males who
might propagate a new generation of Armenians, but for the purpose of rendering
the weaker part of the population an easy prey.[xi]
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NOTES:
[i] Morgenthau, H. (1918). Ambassador
Morgenthau's Story. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, p.
68.
[ii] Ibid, p. 69
[iii] ibid
[iv] Ibid, pages 69 – 70.
[v] 1915 Ottoman Fatwa cited in Bostom, A. (2008).
(Italics denote corrections. Mussulman and Mohamadians replaced with Muslim. Holy
War has Jihad inserted. God is changed to Allah.)
[vi] ibid
[vii] Auda, J. (2008). Maqasid Al-Shariah: A
Beginner's Guide. MacLean, VA: International Institute of Islamic
Thought, p. 53.
[viii] Hard Talk: Interview with Anjem
Chaudry. (2006, August 8). Retrieved October 13, 2014, from BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/progs/05/hardtalk/choudary08aug.ram.
[ix] Op cit
[x] ibid
[xi] Morgenthau, H. (1918). Ambasador
Morgenthau's Story. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company
pgs.123-124.
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Paul Sutliff: BA Religion and Philosophy
from Roberts Wesleyan College, MSED from Nazareth College of Rochester,
currently a post-graduate student at Henley-Putnam University.
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