The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades

Islam—Spreadby the Sword?You Bet.

up ar msto th isen d. Th ey st op pe d

wa gi ng la rge-sc al e jihads after1683 not

becausetheyhad refor med or reje cted the

doct rine sthatmotivatedthem, butbecause

the Islamic'worldhad growntooweakto

continue—a situationt h a t b e g a nt o

ch an ge i n r ec en t t imes with the

discovery of oil in the MiddleEast.

The Egyptian Qur'an commentator and

Muslim Brotherhood theoristSayyedQutb

(1906-1966) emphasizedthis clearly; It is not

the function of Islam to compromise with the

concepts of Jahiliyya

[the society of unbelievers] which arecur ren tin thewor ld or toco-exi st

inthe sam e lan d tog eth erwith a jahili system.... Islam cannot accept any

mixing withJahiliyyah, Either Islam will remain, or Jahiliyyah; no half-

halfsituation is possible. Command belongs to Allah, or otherwiseto

Jahil iyyah: Allah 's Shari 'ah [law] will prevai l, orelse people 'sdes ires :

"An dif the ydo not resp ond to you, then knowthatthey only follow

their ownlusts.And whoismore astraythan onewho follows hisown lusts,

without guidancefrom Allah?Verily!

Allah guides not the people who aredisobedient," [Qur'an 28:50] ...The

foremost duty of Islam isto deposeJahil iyyah from the leader ship

of man, with the intention of raising human beings to that high position

which Allah has chosen for him." (Emphasis added)

Likewise, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979), founder of the Pakistani
political party Jamaat-e-Islami, declared that non-Muslims have 'absolutely
no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God's earth

A Book You're Not

Supposed to Read

jihadin the West: Muslim Conqu ests from

the 7th to the 21st Centuriesby Paul Fregosi;

New York: PrometheusBooks.]998,isa pop-

ular, highly readableaccountof the depre-

dationsofjihadin theWestern world anda

vividillustrationof the postureof war that

the Islamic world hasmaintained toward

Christendom and the post-ChristianWest

since its earliest days.