The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)`Umar to respond: "God is most high and most glorious. We are not equal.
Our dead are in paradise; your dead in hell.'
Mu ham mad vow ed re ven ge aga in whe n he fo und th e bod y of his
un cl e Ha mza. Ha mza ha d bee n ki ll ed at Uhu d an d hi s bod y
ho rr ib lymuti lated by a woman , Hind bint 'Utba , who cut off Hamz a's
nose and ears and ateapart of his liver. She did this in reve nge for the
kill ing of her father, brot her, uncl e, and eldes t son at Badr. The
Prop het was not in the least moved by the fact that she had done thes e
terr ible deed s inre ven ge; "If God gi ves me vic to ry ove r Qur ays h in
th e fut ure ," heexclaimed, "I will mutilate thirty of their men." Touched
by his grief andange r, his follo wers made a simil ar vow; "By God, if
God gives us victory over them in the future we will mutilate them as no
Arab has ever mutilated anyone,'
In victory and defeat, more Islam
Defea t at Uhud, meanwh ile, did nothi ng to shake Musli ms' faith or dull
its fervor, Allah told them they would have gained another victory if they
had not disob eyed him: "Alla h veril y made good His promis e unto you
when ye routed them by His leave, until (the moment] when your courage
fail ed you,and ye disa greed about the order and ye diso beye d, after
Hehad shown you that for which ye long" (Qur'an3:152).
Here again a patter n was set: When things go wrong for the Muslims ,
it is puni shme nt for not bei ng fait hful to Isla m. In 1948 , Sayy id Qutb ,
the grea t theo rist of the Musl im Brot herh ood, whic h hold s the dist inc-
tio n of bei ng the fir st mode rn Isla mic ter ror ist gro up, decl are d of the
Isla mic worl d: "We only have to look in order toseethat our soci al
situation is as bad as it canbe." Yet we continually cast aside all our own
spir itual heri tage , all our intel lect ual endo wment , and all the solut ions
whic h might well be reve aled by a glanc e at thes e thin gs: we cast
asid eour own fundamental principles and doctrines, andwebring in those
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