permitted in the Dar al-Harb. Once the Dar
al-Harb has been subjugated, the Harbi
become prisoners of war.^337At the end of the twentieth century, devout Muslims were
blowing up bookshops and murdering those connected with
the publication of Salman Rushdieʼs novel, yet at the same
time here was another ex-Muslim (like Rushdie) explicitly
warning the general public how the Muslim world-view
does not share our concern with peace and universal human
rights, but rather that Islam fundamentally divides the world
in terms of war and peace, unbeliever and believer. But
there is no trace that Ibn Warraqʼs lucid, highly-relevant and
compendious explanation of Islam was even reviewed by
the British newspapers.^338 The warnings could hardly have
been made any clearer or with stronger evidence than is
contained in books like this by Ibn Warraq. Yet the political
class were not only ignoring such books, they went on to
actively try to silence those who warned of such things
(such as the ban on Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer, etc).
Within Britain the government who were in power for a
decade following the publication of Ibn Warraqʼs book,
tried over and over to pass laws criminalising people who
offended Muslims.^339
When Ibn Warraq explained that Islam has always
divided the world into Muslims versus non-Muslims this
should have come as no surprise. If one looks to the
established apologists for Islam in universities in the West
(such as Professor Watt in Edinburgh), we can find that in
the 1960s this Islamic division of the world was being