disbelief in this case. So the goal is to abolish
disbelief and that is clear.^9We can forget the lie that Muslims are only acting in
response to aggression. Is it any surprise that the world is
plagued by Islamic terrorism, when these classical scholarly
interpretations of Islam make it clear that the Koran instructs
Muslims to kill unbelievers “without any precondition of
hostilities being initiated by the unbelievers”? In the
aftermath of devout Muslims slaughtering innocent people
in the name of Islam, it is a lie of the greatest magnitude
when leaders in the West describe Islam as “a religion of
peace”. As we will show, for at least 150 years before 9/11,
the educated elite in the West were in no doubt that Islam
was a religion of war.
Following repeated terrorist attacks by Muslims in the
West it is not uncommon for Sheikh Bewley to publish a
statement denouncing the actions of these Muslim
terrorists.^10 In these denunciations it would be helpful if
Sheikh Bewley explained why the actions of the Muslim
terrorists are supposedly at odds with the Koranic
commands to kill, commands such as those found in his
wifeʼs translation of the commentary from Qurtubi. Experts
inform us that Qurtubi’s commentary is among the greatest
sources of inspiration for Muslim terrorists.^11 Are these
modern, moderate, educated Muslims who translate such
works oblivious to any connection between the texts they
cherish and the violence performed in the name of those
texts?President Obama could praise as “tolerant” the society
which produced a scholar like Qurtubi, yet the liberal