Abraham's Son Ishmael is not related to Muhammad, nor the 'Father' of the Arabs

More insane lies from the Meccan cult.

Monday, July 4, 2022 by Ferdinand III
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Ishmael, the son of Abraham and his wife’s slave Hagar is not connected at all to ‘Islam’ or Muhammad.  This is one of the more ludicrous lies from the Koran cult attempting to give it legitimacy.  Catholics, Protestants, Agnostics have long made this linkage which does not exist.  It comes from the Muhammadan cult itself.  The Koran and Hadith propose the linkage between Ishmael and Muhammad.  No other source does.  Why is this?  Because none exists.  This lie has given rise to the 3 Abrahamic faiths myth.  Only 2 are based on Abraham.  The cult of Muhammad is based on the Al Lah idol or moon deity and celestial worship found in Mecca which long pre-dates Muhammad.  Ishmael has no blood, geographical, or even philosophical connection with Muhammad.

1-Geography 

The story is that once Hagar birthed Ishmael she became disobedient and arrogant, knowing her son was the legitimate (based on the laws of that time), successor to Abraham a wealthy nomad and merchant.  Conflict ensued and Hagar was banished.  According to the Bible Ishmael settled in Paran and married an Egyptian from whom he had twelve sons: 

"He lived in the desert and became an archer. While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt." Genesis 21:13-21

The Bible locates Paran near Israel (Canaan) and Egypt, south of Judah. John L. McKenzie in his Dictionary of the Bible notes:

The desert of Paran was the home of the Ishmaelites (Gn 21:21). It was, the itinerary according to P (cf. PENTATEUCH), reached by the Israelites after the desert of Sinai (Nm 10:12), and they camped in this desert for some time (Nm 10:12; 13:3, 26, mission and return of the scouts). In Dt 1:1 Paran is vaguely defined as a place in the desert. Hadad of Edom passed through the desert of Paran on his journey from Midian  to Egypt (1 Kings 11:18). Etc

There are many passages in the Bible locating Paran.  The Bible and archaeology place it near Sinai, with some offering Edom or southwest of the Dead Sea as a location.  Regardless it is nowhere near Mecca. 

2-Bloodlines and Geography

It is clear from the Bible and from Paran’s location that Ishmael never married as the Koran states, a Jurhumite woman.  He married an Egyptian not an Arab.  We also know where Ishmael's sons settled:

"This is the account of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Sarah's maidservant, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham. These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps. Altogether, Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people. His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the border of Egypt, as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers." Genesis 25:12-18

McKenzie locates Shur around the area of Palestine and Egypt:

Shur (Hbsur), a geographical name which designates the slopes of Palestine and E of Egypt and N of the deserts of the Sinai peninsula. The Hb word suggests sur, "wall", and some geographers have thought that the name alludes to the line of fortresses constructed by the Egyptians to protect the E frontier of Egypt. The region is the scene of the flight of Hagar in the account of J (Gn 16:7). Abraham dwelt for a time in the Negeb between Kadesh and Shur (Gn 20:1). The Israelites traversed the desert of Shur after crossing the Sea of Reeds (Ex 15:22). The area from Havilah to Shur was the home of the Amalekite and other nomad tribes (Gn 25:18; 1 S 15:7; 27:8). (McKenzie, pp. 810-811)

Ishmael’s sons never settled anywhere near Mecca.

3-They migrated

It is claimed that some of the descendants of Ishmael's twelve sons migrated to Arabia.  One of Ishmael’s sons Nebaioth, is said to be the father of the Nabateans. The Nabateans flourished in northern Arabia, first establishing their capital in Petra in the 4th century B.C. which was captured by the Romans in 106 B.C. They then moved to Damascus. The Dead Sea Scrolls actually contains Nabatean documents from the later period.

There are two major problems with the above assertion. Even though it may be true that some of Ishmael's descendants settled in Arabia, this does not mean that they necessarily were the fathers of the Arabs.  Arab tribes already existed and are described in both the Bible and Egyptian history as existing. Muslim tradition itself affirms that Ishmael was not the father of the Arabs. Ibn Ishaq's biography of Muhammad states:

Ishmael is the son of Ibrahim (Abraham) b. Tarih (Azar) b. Nahur b. Sarugh b. Rau'u b. Falikh b. 'Aybar b. Shalikh b. Arfakhshadh b. Sam (Shem) b. Nuh (Noah). (Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, tr. Guillaume, p. 3)

Ishmael was alive circa 1800 B.C.  Arab tribes had long existed. 

Another specious claim from the Hadith is that Ishmael journeyed to Mecca and married 2 Arab women (Ibn Abbas).  In this tradition Abraham was with Ishmael, a journey which never occurred and is not recounted in the Bible or any other texts.  In this rendition (2.127) (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 55, Number 583) Ishmael is a boy taught by the Arabs in Mecca and grows up to marry 2 Arab women.  So the Koranic text itself is confused.  Did Ishmael journey to Mecca as a young boy or adult?  And if he is the ‘father’ of the Arabs how did the Arabs teach him and how did he marry Arab women?

Neither story is true of course and they make no sense.  Consider that since Arabic is not Ishmael's mother tongue, and since Arabic as a language existed before, Ishmael cannot be the ancestor of Arabs. This means that the notion that Ishmael is the progenitor of the Arabs is erroneous. At most, Ishmael can only be called an Arabicized immigrant. The Muslim traditions prove that Ishmael is not the father of all the Arabs.

4-No relation to Muhammad

Given the above, Ishmael has no blood relationship whatsoever to the Quraysh tribe of Mecca or Muhammad.  Muslim historians traced Muhammad's line to an 'Adnan, an alleged descendant of Ishmael. The following genealogy is taken from T.P Hughes' Dictionary of Islam, p. 217:

Adnan- Ma'add- Nizar- "Ilyas- Mudrikah- Khuzaimah- Kinanah- An-Nazr- Malik- Fihr- Luwaiy- Ka'b- Murrah- Kilab- Qusaiy- "Abdul Manaf- Hashim- Abdul Muttalib- Abdullah- Muhammad (source)

There are several problems with these genealogies. The first problem is the time span of 2500 years between Abraham and Muhammad.  There are not enough linkages in the ‘Adnan story to go from Abraham to Muhammad in that time frame given average human life spans.  Only 24 generations exist.  The story assumes a life span per generation of over 100 years.  This is factually incorrect of course.  Abraham did not live in 150 BCE; he lived some 1700 or more years earlier.  This is of course what we would expect from the Koran and Hadith.  Made up stories with no evidence.  In actual fact the genealogy of Muhammad is unknown.  As given in Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, Volume I, p. 4:

Ma'n Ibn 'Isa al-Ashja'i al-Qazzaz (silk-merchant) informed us; he said: Mu'awiyah Ibn Salih informed us on the authority of Yahya Ibn Jabir who had seen some Companions of the Prophet and said: The people of Banu Fuhayrah came to the Prophet and said to him: You belong to us. He replied: Verily, (the archangel) Gabriel has informed me that I belong to Mudar

To be a descendant of Ishmael (via Mudar) was a claim that started with Muhammad's own words but without historical evidence even in his lifetime. In the end, it comes down to nothing but an unsubstantiated claim from Muhammad and this claim is inconsistent with that given by Ibn Ishaq the earliest biographer of Muhammad in his Sirat Rasulullah who traces his line to Ishmael through Nabit (Nebaioth), not Kedar.  Basically the Muhammadans are trying to imitate the genealogy from Adam to Christ and have failed rather spectacularly.

5-The Cube or Kabaa

According to Muslim tradition, Abraham and Ishmael built the Kaaba, the cube-like structure in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. But outside these traditions there is absolutely no evidence for this claim - whether epigraphic, archaelogical, or documentary.  Archaeology reveals a crude cube at the time of Muhammad built from the wreakage of a Roman vessel found in the Red Sea.  Probably in the pre-Roman Bronze age era there may have been a shrine built with rocks, a crude structure used for celestial worship.  But making up a lie that Abraham journeyed all the way from Haran in what is now northern Iraq to Mecca, to build an altar, in which no other document or proof supports, is simply another example of Muhammad appropriating Jewish and Christian texts for his own purposes.

Historian Snouck Hurgronje has shown that Muhammad invented the story to give his religion an Arabian origin and setting; with this improvisation Muhammad established the independence of his religion, at the same time incorporating into Islam the Kaaba with all its historical and religious associations for the Arabs. (Ibn Warraq, Why I Am Not A Muslim [Prometheus Books, Amherst NY 1995], p. 131)

Finally, Islamicist Alfred Guillaume notes that Ishmael as a name is incorrect in Arabic:

"... there is no historical evidence for the assertion that Abraham or Ishmael was ever in Mecca, and if there had been such a tradition it would have to be explained how all memory of the Old Semitic name Ishmael (which was not in its true Arabian form in Arabian inscriptions and written correctly with an initial consonant Y) came to be lost. The form in the Quran is taken either from Greek or Syriac sources." (Alfred Guillaume, Islam [Penguin Books Inc., Baltimore, 1956], pp. 61-62)

Bottom Line:

The diabolical claim that Ishmael is ‘the father of the Arabs’ is riddled with rotted stench and untruth.  It is rather obvious why Muhammad and the Koranic-Hadith scribblers need this narrative.  It is an attempt to mimic the genealogical links of Christ back to Abraham and Adam, granting Muhammad credibility.  It is done to displace the Bible’s very accurate history and placing of Ishmael in Canaan or near the Dead Sea, neither of which is remotely close to Mecca.  It is a feeble and mendacious attempt to link Abraham to Mecca and the Cube shrine.  What it does is confuse people and lead to claims by the ignorant that Islam is part of the ‘Abrahamic’ tradition which it clearly is not.  Arabs long pre-date Ishmael and Mecca was in the time of the Bronze age into Muhammad’s era, a site where celestial objects, especially the moon, the sun, venus and mars, were worshipped.  

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St. John of Damascus and his criticism of the Muhammandan cult.

Summary of some apposite historically rooted observations on the Moon Cult.

Monday, June 20, 2022 by Ferdinand III
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St. John of Damascus (675-749 A.D) lived during a high tide of Muhammandan imperialism in the Near East and beyond.  His father was a tax collector within the local Muslim government or occupying state and John succeeded him in that role.  Around 730 A.D. he left and became a monk.  His ‘Sources of Knowledge’ is a foundational text for the Greek Orthodox Church and greatly influenced the development of the Western Latin Church, suffused with neo-Platonism and moral exhortations.  He fought to retain the worship of Icons providing logical and theological arguments for their retention, in opposition to official Byzantine policy.  St. John was renowned as a writer, speaker and expert of the cult of Muhammad. 

St. John’s penned the ‘Fount of Knowledge’ and describes Muhammadanism in part 2 on Heresies in Epitome: How They Began and Whence They Drew Their Origin. The Fount of Knowledge is considered one of the:

“most important single works produced in the Greek patristic period,…offering as it does an extensive and lucid synthesis of the Greek theological science of the whole period. It is the first great Summa of theology to appear in either the East or the West.”  (translator’s note in the beginning of the book)

St. John is considered one of the great Fathers of the Church, and his writings hold a place of high honour in the Church. His critique of Islam, or “the heresy of the Ishmaelites,” is especially relevant for our times.  To summarise some of his comments on Muhammadanism, we can note that Muhammad mis-understood the Old Testament, did not believe Christ was divine, did not tolerate the Cross as a symbol of divine power, created a book to manage women, engaged in random revelations which have no basis in the prophetic literature, created a long and rather inane story about a camel and its offspring being a divine provider for Arabs, a declaration that Christ is really a Muslim working for the Al-Lah, and the observation that Muslims are engaged in pagan practices such as stone rubbing and kissing. He could have written volumes on the hate and bile within the Koran adjuring Jihad, war and supremacist domination of the Infidel. 

St. John’s assessment of Islam from ‘Heresies’, abridge and summarised

There is also the superstition of the Ishmaelites which to this day prevails and keeps people in error, being a forerunner of the Antichrist. They are descended from Ishmael, [who] was born to Abraham of Agar, and for this reason they are called both Agarenes and Ishmaelites. They are also called Saracens, which is derived from Sarras kenoi, or destitute of Sara, because of what Agar (Sara’s slave woman who bore Abraham’s child) said to the angel: ‘Sara hath sent me away destitute.’ (exiled once Isaac the legitimate son was born) [1] These used to be idolaters and worshiped the morning star and Aphrodite, whom in their own language they called Khabár, which means great. [2] And so down to the time of Heraclius they were very great idolaters. From that time to the present a false prophet named Mohammed has appeared in their midst. This man, after having chanced upon the Old and New Testaments and likewise, it seems, having conversed with an Arian monk, [3] devised his own heresy. Then, having insinuated himself into the good graces of the people by a show of seeming piety, he gave out that a certain book had been sent down to him from heaven. He had set down some ridiculous compositions in this book of his and he gave it to them as an object of veneration.

He says that there is one God, creator of all things, who has neither been begotten nor has begotten. [4]

He says that the Christ is the Word of God and His Spirit, but a creature and a servant, and that He was begotten, without seed, of Mary the sister of Moses and Aaron. [5]

For, he says, the Word and God and the Spirit entered into Mary and she brought forth Jesus…But the Christ Himself was not crucified, he says, nor did He die, for God out of His love for Him took Him to Himself into heaven. [6]

And he says this, that when the Christ had ascended into heaven God asked Him: ‘O Jesus, didst thou say: “I am the Son of God and God”?’ And Jesus, he says, answered: ‘Be merciful to me, Lord. Thou knowest that I did not say this and that I did not scorn to be thy servant. But sinful men have written that I made this statement, and they have lied about me and have fallen into error.’ And God answered and said to Him: ‘I know that thou didst not say this word.” [7]

There are many other extraordinary and quite ridiculous things in this book which he boasts was sent down to him from God. But when we ask: ‘And who is there to testify that God gave him the book? And which of the prophets foretold that such a prophet would rise up?’—they are at a loss. And we remark that Moses received the Law on Mount Sinai, with God appearing in the sight of all the people in cloud, and fire, and darkness, and storm. And we say that all the Prophets from Moses on down foretold the coming of Christ and how Christ God (and incarnate Son of God) was to come and to be crucified and die and rise again, and how He was to be the judge of the living and dead. [8]

… On the contrary, he (Muhammad) received it (Koran) while he was asleep.’

They furthermore accuse us of being idolaters, because we venerate the cross, which they abominate. And we answer them: ‘How is it, then, that you rub yourselves against a stone in your Ka’ba [9] and kiss and embrace it?’

Then some of them say that Abraham had relations with Agar upon it, but others say that he tied the camel to it, when he was going to sacrifice Isaac. And we answer them: ‘Since Scripture says that the mountain was wooded and had trees from which Abraham cut wood for the holocaust and laid it upon Isaac, [10] and then he left the asses behind with the two young men, why talk nonsense?

As has been related, this Mohammed wrote many ridiculous books, to each one of which he set a title. For example, there is the book On Woman, [11] in which he plainly makes legal provision for taking four wives and, if it be possible, a thousand concubines—as many as one can maintain, besides the four wives. [12,13]

Then there is the book of The Camel of God. [14] About this camel he says that there was a camel from God and that she drank the whole river and could not pass through two mountains, because there was not room enough. There were people in that place, he says, and they used to drink the water on one day, while the camel would drink it on the next. Moreover, by drinking the water she furnished them with nourishment, because she supplied them with milk instead of water. Then, because these men were evil, they rose up, he says, and killed the camel. However, she had an offspring, a little camel, which, he says, when the mother had been done away with, called upon God and God took it to Himself…..

Again, in the book of The Table, Mohammed says that the Christ asked God for a table and that it was given Him. For God, he says, said to Him: ‘I have given to thee and thine an incorruptible table.’ [15]

And again, in the book of The Heifer, [16] he says some other stupid and ridiculous things, which, because of their great number, I think must be passed over. He made it a law that they be circumcised and the women, too, and he ordered them not to keep the Sabbath and not to be baptized. And, while he ordered them to eat some of the things forbidden by the Law, he ordered them to abstain from others. He furthermore absolutely forbade the drinking of wine.

Notes used by St. John

1. Cf. Gen. 16.8. Sozomen also says that they were descended from Agar, but called themselves descendants of Sara to hide their servile origin (Ecclesiastical History 6.38, PG 67.1412AB).

2. The Arabic kabirun means ‘great,’ whether in size or in dignity. Herodotus mentions the Arabian cult of the ‘Heavenly Aphrodite’ but says that the Arabs called her Alilat (Herodotus 1.131)

3. This may be the Nestorian monk Bahira (George or Sergius) who met the boy Mohammed at Bostra in Syria and claimed to recognize in him the sign of a prophet.

4. Koran, Sura 112.

5. Sura 19; 4.169.

6. Sura 4.156.

7. Sura 5.Il6tf.

8. The manuscripts do not have the adage, but Lequien suggests this one from Plato.

9. The Ka’ba, called ‘The House of God,’ is supposed to have been built by Abraham with the help of Ismael. It occupies the most sacred spot in the Mosque of Mecca. Incorporated in its wall is the stone here referred to, the famous Black Stone, which is obviously a relic of the idolatry of the pre-Islam Arabs.

10. Gen. 22.6.

11. Koran, Sura 4.

12. Cf. Sura 2225ff.

13. Sura 2.223.

14. Not in the Koran.

15. Sura 5.114,115.

16. Sura 2.

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Islam’s endless expansion

1400 years of Jihad is not going to end unless we stand and fight.

Wednesday, July 8, 2020 by Ferdinand III
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Some obvious truisms. No Arabs were resident in Israel in 587 BC when the first Jewish temple was destroyed by the Babylonians. No Muslims existed in Persia until it was conquered circa 645 AD. No Muslims were resident in Turkey, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in India or in North Africa, Spain, the Balkans, and Russia, nor in the Asian south-east until Islam wiped out all local cultures and beliefs or relegated them to ‘dhimmi’ or slave status. Islam was, and still is, spread by war. 

Today the Moslem war of Jihad finds its expression not only in ISIS, Boko Harem, The Moslem Brotherhood, The Nation of Islam, Palestinian Jihad, Hizbollah and 100 other Moslem-Jihad groups (literally there are about 100 Moslem Fascist organisations), but even more ominously and destructively; in an un-ending invasion of ‘migrants’, open-borders, demography, the creation of local mosques and the infiltration of the Police, School systems, Government and Political parties.  The Moslem fifth column will topple some Western states starting around 2040 when Moslems are in many urban centres (especially in Europe), over 40% of the population.

There is nothing positive about the spread of Muhammadanism.  Nothing.  Not a single defender of Muhammad’s cult can point to a real-world benefit of his cult’s war on humanity.  This pagan Arab ideology has killed in 1400 years, at least 300 million people.  By definition it cannot be a ‘religion’.  If Islam is religious, then so too was Hitlerism. Much like a modern Atheist-Fascism (the Nazis were Atheists, who believed in Evolution, survival of the fittest, Darwinian socialism); Islam’s premodern paganism is a political construct built for war.  Nothing in the Koran, Sharia law, Arab culture or Islamic theocratic governance is spiritual, religious, peaceful, or harmonious.  Islam’s bloody history makes this apparent as does its handbook of terror ‘Recital’ (Koran).

When the robber politician Mohammed died, his legacy lived on.  Before he died his later ‘revelations’ once he attained power and control, were almost wholly devoted to the idea of jihad, conquering non-Muslims and the establishment of a worldwide Muslim empire. Stealing, killing, lying, warring, having sex with sundry females of all ages including pre-pubescent girls; and the codification of Arab culture [deceit, pride, hypocrisy, crudity] into ‘laws’ ensured that Islam would be the opposite of Christianity. By melding church and state into monotheistic totalitarianism Mohammed had created an ideology more powerful even that that of the pagan Nazi or Soviet cults.

After Mohammed’s death in 630 AD the Muslim empire quickly grew. One of Mohammed’s last pronouncements was to conquer the Persian and Byzantium empires. Apparently, the fascist Mohammed did not take kindly to having his letters suggesting that the emperors of these 2 empires submit to Islam, ignored. By 645 AD Persia had fallen and Byzantium barely survived various Muslim attacks, finally succumbing in 1453 AD to the Ottoman Turks who butchered the survivors of Constantinople in an all too typical show of Arab and Muslim barbarity. 40.000 Christians were slaughtered by the Moslems at Constantinople.  Another 40.000 sold into slavery.  Apparently the enslavement of Whites is fine for modern Marxists and Moslem apologists.

This swift advance of Muslim armies, over 70 years, on horseback, in tight formations, fired by their belief in an afterlife, and by the gleam of booty, gold and women, reads like a pre-modern version of Nazi blitzkrieg:

-633 AD Campaigns in Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, and Hadramaut. Raids in Iraq.

-634 AD Battle of Basra, Battle of Damascus, Battle of Ajnadin, Battle of Namaraq, Battle of Saqatia.

-635 AD Battle of Bridge, Battle of Buwaib, Conquest of Damascus, Battle of Fahl.

-636 AD Battle of Yarmuk, Battle of Qadsiyia, Conquest of Madain.

-637 AD Conquest of Syria, Conquest of Jerusalem, Battle of Jalula.

-638 AD Conquest of Jazirah.

-639 AD Conquest of Khuizistan. Advance into Egypt.

-640 AD Victory in the battle of Babylon.

-641 AD Battle of Nihawand; Conquest of Alexandria in Egypt.

-642 AD Battle of Rayy in Persia; Conquest of Egypt.

-643 AD Conquest of Azerbaijan and Tabaristan (Russia).

-644 AD Conquest of Fars, Kerman, Sistan, Mekran and Kharan.

-646 AD Campaigns in Khurasan, Armenia and Asia Minor.

-647 AD Campaigns in North Africa. Conquest of the island of Cyprus.

-648 AD Campaigns against the Byzantines.

-651 AD Naval battle of the Masts against the Byzantines.

-666 AD Raid of Sicily.

-670 AD Advance in North Africa. Conquest of Kabul.

-672 AD Capture of the island of Rhodes. Campaigns in Khurasan.

-674 AD The Muslims cross the Oxus. Bukhara becomes a vassal state.

-677 AD Occupation of Samarkand and Tirmiz. Siege of Constantinople.

-682 AD North African-Arab armies march to the Atlantic.

-700 AD Campaigns against the Berbers in North Africa.

By 700 AD the Muslims had conquered, the Levant, Egypt, North Africa, Syria, parts of Byzantium and the entire Persian empire. The spread of Islam by Muslim force of arms over such a vast area in the span of 2 generations is remarkable. This 'jihad' was premised on the Koranic incitation to 'struggle' to overcome and subdue the ‘infidel’. Islamic jihad has remorselessly expanded from the Arabian Peninsula to the far corners of the globe through conquest, war, and in the modern world, immigration. It is a signal historical miracle that the small, poor, illiterate and pagan heartland of the Arabian Peninsula would be able to create and then export a vicious fascism that now controls 1.3 billion people worldwide. It is simply astounding.

The Near East, Turkey, Levant, and North Africa were Jewish, Semitic and Christian lands before 632 AD. These areas were not Arab nor Muslim until they were conquered by Muslim forces. The current Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be properly understood if people do not understand that in 1200 BC Jewish cities were being built and that the reigns of David and Solomon developed a prosperous Jewish state by 900 BC. Jewish civilisation far predates that of the Arab. The first Jewish temple of Solomon fell in 587 BC to the Babylonians and the Jews were expelled as slaves to Babylonia only returning in 539 BC after being freed by Cyrus the Great – the Farsi or Persian emperor. The Arabs are simply supple liars in proposing that Israeli land is somehow 'their' land. They butchered millions of Jews and Christians over 1400 years to steal land not only in Israel but throughout Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and North Africa.

Remember Beirut in 1970? A Christian city in a largely Christian country. After a bloody 25-year Muslim inspired and Arafat managed civil war, Lebanon is now an Arab terrorist state having murdered over 100.000 Christians and establishing Muslim rule over what was once the Middle East's most prosperous nation state. Hizbollah, a Moslem terrorist group, now dominates Lebanese politics.  Beirut is yesterday's warning of what the future may hold throughout Europe and North America. No one in 1965 would have predicted that a largely Christian Lebanese state would be so viciously dismembered. Of course, the West stood by and did nothing while an outpost of its own civilisation collapsed.

It is hard to calculate the number of Jews and Christians killed by the Moslems over 14 centuries but the number is certainly in the tens of millions. For those who were not murdered there existed three options. Pay a tax and become a dhimmi or second-class citizen and slave. Convert. Or flee and have your possessions taken by the ruling Arabs. Muslims were only interested in women, gold, booty and land. Harmonious, multi-cultural accommodation was not a priority.

The myth that the Arab empires were some polyglot multi-cultural paradise is galling stupidity. Arabs ruled and the rest were enslaved. Peace in Islam does not mean harmony. It means Islam reigning supreme, unopposed, omnipotent. Multi-culturally sensitive it is not.

But it is not only the 'Saturday' and 'Sunday' people that Muslims kill. At least 50 million or more Hindu’s have been killed by the Muslims. An equal if not greater number of Buddhists have likewise perished at the hands of Muslim armies. The sheer number of butchered non-Muslims is hard to estimate in Central and South Asia, due to the enormity of the genocide and poor record keeping.

But we do know that starting in the 8th century AD and until today, the Muslim onslaught has been relentless conquering vast lands stretching from Pakistan to Indonesia. In modern times, Thailand, Malaysia and other areas with large Christian, Hindu or Buddhist populations have seen enormous amounts of violence and war against the ‘infidels’. These acts are rarely recorded or commented upon in the Western media.

As Yohanan Ramati wrote in, ‘The Islamic Danger to Western Civilization’, the lack of respect for other cultures, religions and for basic human rights means that Islam is in some degree, at least in its Koranic form, incompatible philosophically with democracy. ‘Not a single Moslem state is a democracy. When there is serious internal opposition to a Moslem ruler, his rivals sometimes demand ‘democracy’ during their bid to topple him, but never maintain it if they gain power. So there is an obvious contradiction between promoting democracy and supporting Moslem states….These contradictions are a grave American weakness, as ideological confusion hamstrings the ability to act logically and firmly.’

Ramati is correct. Hamas can assume power in Palestine through a democratic election and in Iraq clerical Shias and fundamentalist Sunni’s elected by a free vote, bloodily fight for control over a nation with a Constitution that enshrines Islam. There is no guarantee that democratic governance within the Muslim world will create modern nation states that will be peaceful or friendly to the West. Iraq and Palestine are obvious examples and this is why throughout the Arab-Islamic world we see so many non-democratic, family controlled or despotic regimes in place. Simply put the leadership elite of Arab Islamic countries are as terrified of fundamentalist Islam as is the West.

The increasing radicalization of Islam in the Middle East fuelled by petrodollars is of course finding a parallel development in Western nations. As the West imports more Muslims and watches the Islamic population grow to 5 %, 10 %, and 15 % of its total population we should expect Islamic supremacist demands to accelerate. The Islamicist’s cannot defeat the West in a head-on battle but they can defeat the Western powers through demographic and internal political change. Demography and birth rates will do to Western lands what force of arms cannot – compel political and societal change and give Muslims the opportunity to dominate Western societies.

The 1400-year Muslim jihad continues and Western apathy, elitist ignorance and broken foreign and domestic policy setting continues unabated blinkered by a politically correct ethos and ignorance. The Muslims are sure of themselves. We are not sure of ourselves.