Donald Trump’s latest politically incorrect comment concerning Islam is much truer than most know. After being asked last week on CNN if he believed the West was at war with Islam, the Republican presidential candidate simply said:
I think Islam hates us. There’s something there that — there’s a tremendous hatred there. There’s a tremendous hatred. We have to get to the bottom of it. There’s an unbelievable hatred of us.
While millions of Americans undoubtedly agree with Trump’s assertions—at least those who have eyes and ears to see and hear with—few realize that this “tremendous hatred” is not a product of grievances, political factors, or even an “extremist” interpretation of Islam; rather, it is a direct byproduct of mainstream Islamic teaching.
According to the ancient Islamic doctrine of al-wal’a wa al-bara’, or “loyalty and enmity”—which is well grounded in Islamic scriptures, well sponsored by Islamic authorities, and well manifested all throughout Islamic history and contemporary affairs—Muslims must hate and oppose everyone who is not Muslim, including family members.
Koran 60:4 is the cornerstone verse of this doctrine and speaks for itself: “You [Muslims] have a good example in Abraham and those who followed him, for they said to their people, ‘We disown you and the idols which you worship besides Allah. We renounce you: enmity and hate shall reign between us until you believe in Allah alone’” (Koran 60:4, emphasis added).
Koran 58:22 praises Muslims who fight and kill their own non-Muslim family members: “You shall find none who believe in Allah and the Last Day on friendly terms with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger—even if they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers, or their nearest kindred.”
According to Ibn Kathir’s mainstream commentary on the Koran, this verse refers to a number of Muslims who slaughtered their own non-Muslim kin (one slew his non-Muslim father, another his non-Muslim brother, a third—Abu Bakr, the first revered caliph of Islamic history—tried to slay his non-Muslim son, and Omar, the second righteous caliph, slaughtered his relatives). As Ibn Kathir explains,[1] Allah was immensely pleased by their unwavering zeal for his cause and rewarded them with paradise.
In fact, verses that support the divisive doctrine of “loyalty and enmity” permeate the Koran (see also 4:89, 4:144, 5:51, 5:54, 6:40, 9:23, and 60:1). There is one caveat, captured by Koran 3:28: when Muslims are in a position of weakness, they may pretend to befriend non-Muslims, as long as the hate carries on in their hearts. (Read here for several recent examples of Muslims living for years at peace and in friendship with non-Muslims, but then violently turning on them once they became stronger.[2])
Because enmity for non-Muslims is so ironclad in the Koran, mainstream Islamic teaching holds that Muslim men must even hate—and show that they hate—their non-Muslim wives, for no other reason than that they are “infidels.”
If Muslims must hate those closest to them—including fathers, sons, brothers, and wives—simply because they are non-Muslims, is there any surprise that so many Muslims hate foreign “infidels” who live oceans away—such as Americans, who are further portrayed throughout the Islamic world as trying to undermine Islam?
Thus, even America’s supposed best Muslim friends and allies—such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar—are on record calling on all Muslims to hate us. According to a Saudi governmental run website, Muslims must “oppose and hate whomever Allah commands us to oppose and hate, including the Jews, the Christians, and other mushrikin [non-Muslims], until they believe in Allah alone and abide by his laws, which he sent down to his Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings upon him.”
In short, Trump’s assertion that “Islam hates us” is demonstrable by the plain words and teachings of the Koran, by the plain words and teachings of past and present Islamic clerics, and by the past and present actions of Muslims around the world.
But, as usual, instead of discussing these problematic facts, the powers-that-be are much more interested in portraying Trump as the one who hates.
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[1] Koran 58:22 in full reads: “You shall find none who believe in Allah and the Last Day on friendly terms with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger—even if they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers, or their nearest kindred. Allah has inscribed the faith in their very hearts, and strengthened them with a spirit from Himself. He will admit them to gardens watered by running streams, where they shall dwell forever. Allah is well pleased with them and they are well pleased with Him. They are the party of Allah, and surely it is the party of Allah that shall triumph!” According to Ibn Kathir’s commentary: “It was said that the phrase from the Most High—‘even if they be their fathers’—that it was revealed about Abu Ubayda when he slew his father at [the battle of] Badr; ‘their sons’ was about Abu Bakr [Muhammad’s successor and first caliph] when he intended to slay his son, Abd al-Rahman; ‘their brothers’ was about Mus’ab bin Umayr, who slew his brother, Ubayd bin Umayr; ‘or their kin’ was about Omar, who slew one of his relatives. Also Hamza, Ali, and Ubayda bin al-Harith: They slew Utba, Sheeba, and al-Walid bin Uitba [their kin] at that battle. Allah knows [best]. Moreover, when the Messenger of Allah consulted with the Muslims regarding the captives of Badr, Abu Bakr advised that they should pay ransom, thereby enabling the Muslims to grow stronger. Also, since they [captives] were cousins and relatives, perhaps Allah Most High would have eventually guided them. But Omar said: ‘This goes against my thinking, O Messenger of Allah. Let me slay so-and so (a relative of Omar), and let Ali [slay] Aquil [Ali’s brother], and so-and-so [slay] so-and-so—so that Allah may know that there is no love in our hearts for the idolaters. ..’ This is the whole story.” Excerpted from Ayman al-Zawahiri’s “Loyalty and Enmity,” The Al Qaeda Reader, pgs., 63-115.
[2]For more on Islamic sanctioned forms of deception, read about tawriya, and taysir.
LOVE WILL TRIUMPH OVER HATE JESUS IS LOVE AND HE WILL DEFEAT SATAN=ALLAH
Not if we don’t defend ourselves it won’t. The church is definately not doing anything to defend us and neither are western governments.
Jesus was a man of moral strength, full of the Spirit of Wisdom and Love. When Jesus said to love your enemies, ” bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you ” Matt. 5:44, He did not mean that our love, blessings and goodness are to be trampled on, and that we are to allow evil like Islam to prevail over us. We love, bless, and do good to our enemies by telling them the truth, as Jesus did to His enemies. In Matt. 12:34, 23:15,17,19,27,33, Luke11:40 and John 10:8 Jesus called His enemies ” fools ” ” serpents (snakes) ” ” hypocrites ” ” thieves ” ” whited sepulchres ” ” liars ” and ” blinded in sin. ” Jesus equated adjectives of this kind to loving your enemies, ( exposing them as evil men ) and doing good to them that hate you, ( by denouncing and condemning them as liars and cunning snakes ). This is the same Jesus that in Matt. 21:12,13 went into the temple of God, cast out all them that bought and sold in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers (they were dishonest). And Jesus is still speaking today ( to all false religions, including the barbaric and cruel Muslims of Islam ) saying, ” Whosoever denies me before men, ( Muslims deny the Jesus of the scriptures ) him will I also deny before My Father who is in heaven, ” Matt. 10:32,33. Jesus has warned us many times, to beware of evil men and their ideologies, beware of liars, seducers and such like. And Muslims are no different, but are enemies of the true followers of Jesus. We must fight the good fight of faith, spreading the truth of the gospel, and countering their lies.
Satan as returned after 1,000 years, and is in the form of Obama, who’s wife has turned Black against White, saying “kill a Whitey today.” You whites have got to take the blame for this, it was you whom elected the Devil to run your country, and have done nothing about it?
Raymond, this is another truthful, scholarly, unapologetic piece, regarding the nature of Quran’s dogma, and the worldview that it mandates to its devout followers. Trump is not an apologist for political Islam, especially when it comes to the Wahhabi, such as bin-Talal. This piece comes at the perfect time, especially regarding Tuesday’s Ohio primary. John Kasich is a example of what is NOT wanted in DC because his Middle East stance is totally incorrect. For those of you who watched the last Republican debate, you might recall that Kasich said that we should further help the Syrian rebels ( the Syrian “rebels” are the bad guys). He also said that we should embrace Saudi Arabia and Turkey even more ( HELLO!!!! Saudi Arabia funds more terrorism than any other country and the once secular Turkey is now run by a Saudi puppet regime, AND, the Turks should be yanked from NATO). Kasich went on to say that the EU made a mistake by not admitting Turkey? WHAT? ??? He’s INSANE!!! Last week the Turks tried to extort their way into the already screwed up EU, by offering a refugee “deal”!!!! Kasich is the RINO version of Hillary.
Ohio, vote Trump, because Trump does not pander to political Islam. In other words, he gets it , and he’s not afraid to admit it.
Right but reblast on all Social media to wake up the uninformed on the cult called Islam.
To Islam their is only one religion Islam…read so your informed 1400 years of Deceivers that beware is prudent
Would you wear a T-shirt with a Mohammad cartoon printed on it?
You might in Montana. Don’t try it in Mecca.
Why?
Because, Islam trains a small number of its most devout believers it’s OK to kill. And Islamic killers have been trained to kill anyone who insults Allah and/or Mohammad.
In Montana you’d have a good chance none of these Islamic killers would see you.
In Mecca you wouldn’t last five minutes. One of Islam’s killers would come from out of nowhere and kill you. It is that simple.
You don’t believe me? Ask any Muslim!
Read how Islam creates fear at; http://islamsfatalflaw.blogspot.com/
Surprisingly, Donald Trump seems to have got something right.
I thought that this issue is quite clearly defined by the Islamic scholars if you believe that they mean what they have written. An Islamic country is ‘Dar-al-Islam’ which means that it is governed by Sharia and the practice of other religions is suppressed. The other countries are ‘Dar-alHarb’ which means that they are enemy states.
These enemy states can be in a temporary state of truce (Dar-al-Hudna) which can last up to ten years (Plase not the peace proposition of Hamas!) or while the status of the Muslim community does not as yeat allow taking over the country.
Finally, nowadays there are countries that live in peace with the Muslims and let them practice their ways and try not to have enemities with the Muslims so they cannot really be called ‘Harb’. These countries are called Dar-al-Dawa by some modern Islamic philosophers.
The Islamic demagogy is always referring to Muslims being the victims and the underdogs of the Western societies and they want to inflate even the slightest disagreements and even misunderstandings to indicate that there is a war going on.
Never mind the Dar-al-Dawa, it is not in the Islamic tradition. Western societies are Dar-al-Harb until they embrace Islam.
Now please correct me if I got this wrong:
I have understood that Islam is not only Qur’an and the Hadiths but also the rulings of qualified scholars that have been deemed as ‘final’ and also the local traditions of Islamic populations.
So saying that Dar-al-Islam or Dar-al-Harb do not belong to Islam because they are not mentioned in Qur’an or the Hadiths does not really have any significance?
Raymond, I have said this before, but you are a shining light in these dark times. Thank you for your scholarship, dedication, and courage on this subject.
Adopting a posture of sanctimonious virtue signaling via the claim of a corner on compassion – the hallmark of the left, deactivates the brain and makes it impossible for the afflicted to discern reality when it’s biting them in the a**.
Mr. Ibrahim, I read your articles consistently, and I think your writing is significant and necessary. Unfortunately Mr. Trump is not worthy to be a messenger for your scholarly work. I believe this because of his own unchristian-like actions where he recently mocked a disabled reporter. He also admitted to cutting off the medical benefits to a sick baby in his own family because of his anger, these are just two examples that prove his depravity.
Not that my opinion matters to you, but I believe he is beneath the integrity of your work.
Mr. Trump can’t be trusted to do good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmGRshS0PAw&feature=player_detailpage
Hi Raymond and everyone else here,
So right you are. And Mr Trump is so right. The only thing is people will start believing when the cancer has spread too much. I won’t be surprised if this religion is banned in countries all over the world.
Today so many people abuse Mr Trump, but don’t realise that he’s trying to keep the cancer from spreading further. This political correctness is madness.
I pray people like Trump, Putin, Robert Fico, Viktor Orban, Marine Le Pen, Narendra Modi, Nicolas Sarkozy come / stay in power to keep our countries immune from this cancer.
Right but re tweet
Islam has hated everyone, including Muslims, for 1,400 years.
Thank you for speaking out so clearly.
For those with eyes who can see, there is a hope that Donald Trump’s understanding for the need to stop unveted Muslim migrants from entering America will be the first order of business should he gain the presidency.
The only conclusion we can make of the elitists denial of Islamic jihad is that they are either in collusion or they are members of Islam.
Ah, the truth hurts. Fortunately truth is not in the least optional, no matter how unpleasant. Keep telling the truth about Islam, everyone who recognizes it. Eventually the pc world will catch on.
The visceral reaction to any criticism of Islam reminds me of the visceral reaction to the old “argumentum ad Hitlerum” conundrum. Specifically, once you bring Adolf Hitler into any discussion, all rational treatments of the subject at hand disappear, to be replaced by irrational appeals to emotion. Hitler has become the ultimate monster in western thought, so there is no way to use him in any discussion without destroying all objectivity. It is similar whenever knowledgeable individuals point out the deep and dangerous flaws of Islam. Immediately all rational discussion is shut out by visceral rejection of the criticism of one of the “world’s great religions”. Ignorant and politically correct folk “know” that no religion can be evil. Obviously, those criticizing Islam must therefore be either ignorant or bigoted.
Funny how no other religion is treated so gently. This in itself is suspect. If Islam really is a force for good, a “religion of peace”, then why do people fear to criticize it? In fact, if it really is so good, why would it have such a poor global reputation? Could that perhaps be due to all of the crimes that are committed in its name on a daily basis?