Thursday, April 13, 2006
A peaceful religion?...
Doesn't sound so "peaceful" to me.
suzerain- noun
a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs...
suzerain- noun
a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs...
Efraim Karsh writes about it in the Wall Street Opinion Journal:
"Though tempered and qualified in different places and at different times, the Islamic longing for unfettered suzerainty has never disappeared, and has resurfaced in our own day with a vengeance. It goes by the name of empire."
"'I was ordered to fight all men until they say, 'There is no god but Allah.' ' With these farewell words, the prophet Muhammad summed up the international vision of the faith he brought to the world. As a universal religion, Islam envisages a global political order in which all humankind will live under Muslim rule as either believers or subject communities. In order to achieve this goal, it is incumbent on all free, male, adult Muslims to carry out an uncompromising 'struggle in the path of Allah,' or jihad. As the 14th-century historian and philosopher Abdel Rahman ibn Khaldun wrote, 'In the Muslim community, the jihad is a religious duty because of the universalism of the Islamic mission and the obligation [to convert] everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.'"
