The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades

IslamicLaw:Lie, Steal,and Kill

John Quincy Adams on Islam:

"In the seve nth cent ury of the Chris tian era, a wande ring Arab of the linea geof

Hagar[i.e .,Muha mmad] , the Egypt ian, combi ning the powe rs of tran scen dent

genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an

impostor, proclai med himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolati on and

delusion over an exte nsive porti on of the eart h. Adop ting from the subl ime conc epti on of

the Mosa ic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolublywithit, the

audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new

Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope ofimmortallife,and of future retribution, he humbled it

to the dust by adapting alltherewards andsanctions of his religion to the gratification of the

sexual passion.Hepoisoned the sources of humanfelicity at the fountain, by degrading the

condition of the female sex. and the allowance of polygamy:and he declared undistinguishing

and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of Mankind. THE ESSENCE OF

HIS DOCTRINEWAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALTTHE BRUTAL OVER THE

SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.. ,Between these two religions, thus contrasted in

their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant_While

the mercilessand dissolute dogmas ofthefakeprop het shallfurni shmotives to human action,

th er ecan never bepeaceupon earth. and good wilt towards men: (Emphasis in the original)

land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment

is theirs in the Hereafter. (Qur'an5:31-33)

In fact,in light of theQur’an’sbellicosecommands to "slay theunbelievers" (9;5: 2:191), it

should be clear that in this case, as in so many others ther e is one stan dardforMusl ims

andanot her fornon-Musl ims.Indeed,the Qur'an stipulates that "it is not fora believer to

kill a believer unlessit be by mistake" (4:92), but it never makes a similar statement

regarding unbelievers.

This led to a predictab le double standard in Islamic law. "Killin g

without right," according to the Shafi'i school of Sunni Muslim

jurisprudence,