The Deliberate Deception of the

Public

“slay   the idolaters   [kill   the non-Muslims]”

Koran   9:5

As soon as you start reading the pages of the Koran in
the way in which devout Muslims know the Koran has been
seen for over a thousand years, it will become immediately
clear to you why Islam is a religion of war. In 1953 here is
what the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the twentieth-centuryʼs

single most authoritative account of Islam in English,^16
had to say about jihad:

The spread  of  Islam   by  arms    is  a   religious

duty    upon    Muslims in  general  [...]  Whether

Muhammad     himself     recognized  that    his

position    implied steady  and unprovoked  war

against  the     unbelieving     world   until   it  was

subdued  to  Islam   may     be  in  doubt   [...]   Still

the  story   of  his     [Mohammed's]    writing     to

the  powers  around  him     shows   that    such    a

universal    position    was     implicit    in  his     mind,

and it  certainly   developed   immediately after

his  death,  when    the     Muslim  armies

advanced    out of  Arabia.^17