Is Barack Obama an
Islamic apologist? He has a history of
it, and the above tweet speaks volumes.
ISIS or ISIL is following the vision Muhammad laid out for his
apostles. And yes, Islam does teach people to massacre. Here is an excerpt from one of
my earlier blog
post.
Abu Bakr organized the invasion of Syria
[Syro-Palestine] which Muhammad had already envisaged. He gathered tribes from
the Hijaz, Najd, and Yemen and advised Abu Ubayda, in charge of operations in
the Golan, to plunder the countryside, but due to a lack of adequate weaponry,
to refrain from attacking towns. Consequently, the whole Gaza region up to
Cesara was sacked and devastated in the campaign of 634. Four thousand Jewish,
Christian, and Samaritan peasants who defended their land were massacred. The
villages of the Negev were pillaged by Amr b. al-As, while the Arabs overran
the countryside, cut communications, and made road perilous. Towns such as
Jerusalem, Gaza, Jaffa, Cesarea, Nablus, and Beth Shean were isolated and
closed their gates. In his sermon on Christmas day 634, the patriarch of
Jerusalem, Sophronius, lamented over the impossibility of going on pilgrimage
to Bethlehem, as was the custom because the Christians were being forcibly kept
in Jerusalem: “not detained by tangible bonds, but chained and nailed by fear
of the Saracens,” whose “savage, barbarous and bloody sword” kept them locked
up in town….Sophronius, in his sermon on the Day of the Epiphany 636, bewailed
the destruction of the churches and monasteries, the sacked towns, the fields
laid waste, the villages burned down by the nomads who were overrunning the
country. In a letter the same year to Sergius, the patriarch of Constantinople,
he mentions the ravages wrought by the Arabs. Thousands of people perished in
639, victims of the famine and plague that resulted from these destructions.
The countryside [in Syro-Palestine, Iraq, Persia, and Armenia] suffered constant razzias, while those who escaped the sword swelled the contingents of enslaved women and children, shared out among the soldiers after the deduction of the fifth [share of the “booty”] reserved for the caliph.
According to [the Muslim chronicler] Baladhuri (d. 892 C.E.), 40,000 Jews lived in Caesarea alone at the Arab conquest, after which all trace of them is lost.
Islam is a supremist ideology. If ISIS believes another Muslim isn’t
following the dictates of their prophet, they’ll make damn sure he does, or
else.
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