“I have been commanded to wage war against mankind until they testify there is no god by Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah….If they do so, their blood and property are protected.”
“I have been made victorious with terror.”
The Muslim Jihad against civilisation and the world at large begins with Muhammad the founder of the Meccan cult. In 610 Anno Domini this deranged and bloody personality began informing his illiterate Bedouin tribesmen that the arch-angel Gabriel had selected him to be this Allah’s messenger. Historically the Al-lah or Lord of Mecca was Baal the moon deity and Muhammad’s family were its caretakers. Over time this Al Lah becomes conflated with an immanent ‘God’ and seeks to replace the Christian ideal of the Holy Trinity. Muhammad’s message was simple, the cult was called ‘Submission’ or Islam. Submit to his Al Lah whatever it might be, and most importantly to its only messenger Muhammad himself.
Forced out of Mecca, fleeing to Medina, Muhammad becomes the dictator of the city-state, forms an army and begins raiding everywhere. His followers increased as brigandage, and larceny brought back plunder and women. To join the cult, all one had to do was recite the Shahada, the first pillar of Islam, literally a sentence fragment, ‘There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger’, which confirms loyalty to the Allah thing and Muhammad. You didn’t need to believe, do much in the way of rituals or oblations, except pray a few times and often in the early years of Muhammad’s cult that was not required.
As Edward Gibbon catalogued, from 622 to 632 AD, Muhammad led or supported an average of 9 raiding expeditions every year. By 632 AD the entire peninsula of Arabia was in the control of his cult. By comparison he had a few dozen mostly familial followers after 12 years of ‘preaching’ in Mecca. War apparently, pays big dividends. Gibbon, ‘(Muhammad) employed even the vices of mankind as the instruments of their salvation, and the use of fraud and perfidy, of cruelty and injustice, were often subservient to the propagation of the faith.’
By 630 AD Muhammad could assemble 10.000 men and march on Mecca. Abu Sufyan, the leader of the Meccans, and once an inveterate opponent of Muhammad, submitted to the Al Lah cult and said the Shahada. He would later become a fanatical Jihadist and murderer of Christians and pagans. The allure of booty, loot, women and power was built into the Jihad from its very beginnings.
The real appeal of Muhammad’s simple message was the compatibility with the uncivilised pagan-tribal nature of Arabian society. In 7th century Arabia one’s loyalty lay with the tribe, mandating a deep-seated enmity of other tribes and groups. Raids between tribes were endless and most tribes such as Muhammad’s were organised within familial lines. Muhammad’s tribe the Quraysh, who ran Mecca, were composed from the same extended familial lines. This pagan-tribal appeal of Submission, in which raiding, brigandage, rape and sexual enslavement were divinely sanctioned explains much of its appeal. The Muslim philosopher Ibn Khaldun (d.1406) described Arab Muslims as the ‘most savage human beings that exist. Compared with sedentary people they are on a level with wild, untamable animals and dumb beasts of prey. Such people are the Arabs’. Hardly a strong endorsement of civilised, religious bearing.
Other uncivilised and pagan tribes were also attracted to Muhammad’s cult. The illiterate, savage Berbers in North Africa became fanatical Muslims invading Spain in the 8th century and again in the 11th and laying waste to much of civilisation in Spain and southern France. The Turks and Mongols likewise embraced the tribal dictates of Muhammad’s primitive cult, with both being uncivilised nomadic, animistic tribes, without any pretence of higher culture. The tribal elements and fiduciary benefits of joining the Jihad were too much to resist. Needless to say, both Turks and Mongols laid waste great swathes of Christian civilisation and territory.
The concept of tribe became the Umma or brotherhood of all Muslims. Muhammad declared in 630 AD after conquering Mecca that ‘a believer shall not slay a believer for the sake of an unbeliever, not shall he aid an unbeliever against a believer’ (example is Koran 4-89, 4-144). The world of the Umma was a stark dichotomy -the supra-tribe of Muhammad against everyone else. Muslims were to become friends with each other to the exclusion of the unbeliever (Ibn Ishaq, 1997, p. 232). The creation of a supra-tribe, supremacist, ‘pure’ and ‘divinely’ sanctioned and supported, gave great energy and confidence to the Muslim Jihad, regenerating itself in violence and blood, as the primitive and savage tribes of the Berbers, Turks and Mongols joined the cult of Muhammad.
Numerous Koranic verses portray the Jihad as the noblest duty of a Muslim. Muhammad stated that ‘Lining up for battle in the path of Allah is worthier than 60 years of worship’. There is a reason why the cult of Islam or Submission does not have monks, monasteries, nuns or convents. The expectation was war, Jihad, and fighting, not praying, prostration and meditation. Muhammad’s Jihad offered not only the Spoils of War (Sura 8 in the Koran), but also an after life of riches and spoils, replete with virgins, young boys, wine and unlimited comforts. It was a win-win for the Jihadi. Die in battle and go to the Muslim-male heaven (nothing similar exists for the Muslim female) to be tantalised by buxom virgins, young boys, food and wine. Or survive and win the battle and satiate your temporal lusts with sex slaves, money, land and loot.
What if a Muslim refused to fight? The Al Lah had a darker and more sinister view of such a person. In Sura 8-15, the Al Lah says that those who don’t fight for the cult will be ‘be tortured like no other sinful human’. If you could not physically fight, you were expected to ‘strive’ or give a greater Jihad, to support the ‘lesser’ or physical-warring Jihad. Money, your property, food, weapons, camels or horses, were expected from those who could not physically saddle up and ride in the Jihad. To further tempt males into joining the cults’ endless, and yearly raiding and warring, the Al Lah promised to commute and expunge all sins and wrong-doings. This was true if you fought and survived, or even more so, if you went on Jihad and perished. For the martyred Jihadi he is, according to Muhammad, precious to the Al Lah, ‘He is forgiven from the first drop of blood (he sheds). He sees his throne in paradise….Fixed atop his head will be a crown of honour, a ruby that is greater than the world and all it contains. And he will copulate with 72 Houris.’ The Houris are supernatural, celestial big breasted nymphs, with ‘wide eyes’, created by the Al Lah as presents and rewards for his deceased Jihadis. That ‘heaven’ for the cult of Muhammad is depicted as a brothel with unlimited food and wine service, and this is unsurprising given the uncivilised and atavistic culture it represents.
Importantly, the Jihadis intentions or Muslimification was unimportant. The only point at issue, was to engage in and support the Jihad. If you didn’t really believe in the Al Lah moon deity or ‘god’, or in Muhammad and kept it to yourself that was fine. Sura 2 depicts Jihad as a business, as a ‘fine loan to Al Lah’ and ‘rejoice in the bargain you have struck for that is the supreme triumph’ (Koran 9-111). For the average tribal male this ‘bargain’ was simply a win-win. If he and the Jihad succeed, he has every chance at becoming wealthy and satisfying carnal lusts with sex slaves. If he dies, he goes to the Muslim brothel in heaven, well-provisioned with targets of lust, food and wine. His piety was unimportant, participating in war was what the Al Lah demanded and rewarded.
Jihad is baked into the Koran and Muhammad’s cult from its inception. Submission or Islam was formed by war and raiding. Its irruption in 632 AD into the Greek-Roman-Christian empire in the ‘East’, created the ‘West’ by destroying 2/3 of Christendom. Christianity in the guise of the Byzantine empire, controlled the Middle East and North Africa, with the Christian Visigoths established in Spain. Within 1 century the Muslims had completely effaced this Christian unity, subjugating most of the Middle East, North African and Spain. The ‘West’ so-called is simply the rump of what had been an extensive Christian empire from Britain to Armenia. Christian groups, churches, buildings, monasteries, libraries, agriculture, industry, hospitals, ports and trade routes were destroyed, taken over, converted or re-directed by Muslims for their own benefit, in their endless Jihad. How many people today know that the term ‘West’ comes from the Middle Ages and means the remaining 1/3 rump of what was once an advanced and vibrant Mediterranean based Christian empire?