violence on an almost daily basis across the world, we too
might have no need to understand the role that
abrogation plays in theocracy. But when our politicians
and journalists tell us that “Islam is a religion of peace”
we need to find some way of reconciling that claim with
the frequent mass-murders carried out by devout Muslims
in the name of Islam.
We are now so accustomed to the idea of suicide
bombings by Muslims we don’t even recognise what a
strange and unusual thing this should be. No matter if
Muslims are 10% or 5% or 1% of the population of a
country, 100% of those involved in terrorism in relation to
Islam are Muslims. In a society where 95% of the population
are not Muslims, one might reasonably expect that in
response to terrorist attacks by Muslims, huge numbers of
the Kuffar would fight back with terrorist attacks on
Muslims. But such attacks do not exist. The terrorist attacks
are all coming from “the religion of peace” not from all the
other religions and belief systems which are not praised as
being peaceful.
Apart from Muslims, when it comes to suicide
bombing most of us might only be able to recall the
Japanese Kamikaze pilots from World War II (indeed,
suicide-bombing is so atypical of Western values that the
French word for a Muslim suicide bomber is
“Kamikaze”).^294 So the only other killers who committed
suicide to murder others for political advantage were
from a non-Western, militaristic, imperialistic culture,
which was losing a prolonged war, where surrender was
not even conceivable. Their recourse to dying for Japan in