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Quotes from Holy
Terror by Amir Taheri
"It is in the nature of Islam to dominate, not
to be dominated, to impose its laws on all nations and to extend its
power to the entire planet." -Sheikh Hassan al-Banna, founder and
Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.
pg 10: Theirs (Islamic Jihad Organizations') long
term objective is the conversions - "by force if necessary" -
of all mankind to the faith of Muhammad.
pg 15: "The world as it is today is how others
[i.e. infidels] shaped it," wrote the late Ayatollah Muhammad Baqer
al-Sadr. "We have two choices: either to accept it with submission,
which means letting Islam die, or to destroy it, so that we can
construct the world as Islam requires." Another leading
theoretician of fundamentalism, Mustafa Chamran, wrote: "To us the
East is like the West. Both are enemies."
pg 16: The second characteristic that distinguishes
the Islamic version from other forms of terrorism is that it is clearly
conceived and conducted as a form of Holy War which can only end when
total victory has been achieved.
pg 16: The third specific characteristic of Islamic
terrorism is that it forms the basis of a whole theory both of
individual conduct and of state policy. To kill enemies of Allah and to
offer the infidels the choice between converting to Islam or being put
to death is the duty of every individual believer, as well as the
supreme - if not the sole - task of the Islamic state.
pg. 20: The division of the world in two mutually
exclusive camps of the City of
War
and the City of
Faith
- lies at the heart of Islamic traditional view of existence.
pg 21: In countries where Partisans of allah are
still weak and not fully organized, they act as missionaries of the
Faith. .. As long as Islam is not strong enough to impose its will on
the inhabitants of the City of
War
by force, it may observe a period of truce. But they can never be peace
between the two.
pg. 22: "The very concept of a secular Muslim
society is impossible by definition," said Habib Boulares, a
leading Arab scholar with impeccable Western credentials and a member of
the Tunisian Nations Assembly.
pg 28: The dhimmis (i.e. Christians, Jews and
Zoroastrians) and other infidels who may harbor hostile intentions
towards Islam must be considered enemies making war on Allah. their
punishment is death.
pg. 31: Adding the number of believers and reducing
that of the infidels is one of the most important duties of the militant
fudamentalist.
Pg 32: A true believer (a Muslim) cannot remain
indifferent to the political fate of the society in which he lives.
Islam is a thoroughly political religion, and cannot be put in position
of weakness simply because some means and tactics may be considered
immoral.
pg 34: The unbelievers follow falsehood while
Believers follow the truth. When you meet the unbelievers strike off
their heads, and when you laid them low, bind them firmly. - Quran, Sura
XLII, verse 3-4.
pg 36: Islam's kingdom, unlike that of Christ, does
not belong to the hereafter, and must be created here and now.
pg 45: Those who are against killing have no place
in Islam. Our Prophet killed with his own blessed hands. Our Ilam Ali
killed more than 700 on a single day. If the survival of the faith
requires the shedding of blood, we are there to perform our duty. -
Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali, Islamic Judge.
pg 59: Throw away your worry beads and buy a gun.
for worry beads keep you silent, while guns silence the enemy of Islam.
-Muhammad Nawab-Safavi
pg 86: Islam is not Christianity. .. Islam is the
religion of agitation, violence, blood, liberation and martyrdom. -
Shaikh Morteza Motahari
pg 89: Contrary to what is generally assumed in the
West, Islam expressly forbids any form of suicide, and killing in the
service of Faith is certainly more meritorious than getting killed for
it.
pg 91: Islam recognizes only one important dividing
line in life - tam'yeez, or the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
Girls cross the line at the age of nine, when they are considered
complete women and can marry; boys cross it at sixteen.
pg 118: It is worth recalling that
U.S.
has been one of the most important breeding ground for the Islamic
Revolution outside the
Middle East
itself.
pg 123: The Party of Allah's theoreticians see the
1980s basically as "an era of sowing the seeds of tomorrow."
What is important is to take the message of the Islamic Revolution to as
many Muslims as possible. this message, offered on tapes and in books,
newspapers, and radio programs in many languages, is backed by
financial, political, and military might of
Iran
, which is emerging as "the new superpower of the
Persian gulf
," according to some Western analysts. In an Arabic booklet, the
Party of Allah states its objectives as follows:
(1) To teach Muslims that Islam and impiety can never coexist.
(2) To mobilize the forces of Islam for Holy War unto victory.
(3) To teach every Muslim that his duty toward his Creator
includes readiness to kill and to die.
(4) To make sure that all the rules of Islam are obeyed in Muslim
countries down to the minutest detail.
The Party of Allah is not the party of the meek and
faint-hearted, nor is it a gathering place of those who look on war as
an abomination to be eliminated from human existence. In an address to
fundamentalist militants from more than thirty countries gathered at his
house in Jamaran on the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, Khomeini
himself summed up the message of the party of Allah:
If one allows the infidels to continue playing their role of
corruption on Earth, their eventual moral punishment will be all the
stronger. thus, if we kill the infidels in order to put a stop to their
[corrupting] activities, we have indeed done them a service. For their
eventual punishment will be less. to allow the infidels to stay alive
means to let them do more corrupting [activities.] [To kill them] is a
surgical operation commanded by Allah the Creator .. .. those who follow
the rules of the Quran are aware that we have to kill .. ... War is a
blessing for the world and for every nation. It is Allah himself who
commands men to wage war and to kill. The Quran commands: "Wage war
until all corruption and all disobedience [of divine law] are wiped
out!"
The wars that our Prophet -blessed be his soul- waged against the
infidels were divine gifts to humanity. Once we have won the war [
against
Iraq
] we shall turn to other wars. For that would not be enough. We have to
wage war until all corruption, all disobedience of Islamic laws cease
[throughout the world]. The Quran commands: "War, war unto victory!
A religion without war is a crippled religion. Had Jesus-Allah bless his
soul- been allowed to live a little longer, he too would have acted as
Moses did and used the sword ... ... It is war that purifies the Earth.
Those courtier mullahs who say [war] is contrary to the rules of the
Holy Book are enemies if Islam. But Allah be praised, our young warriors
re putting his command into effect and fighting. They know that to kill
the infidels is one of the noblest missions Allah has reserved for
mankind.
pg 125: Pilgrims to the "waiting room of
Paradise
" start their guided tour of the Islamic Republic with a visit to
the Behesht Zahra (Paradise of Flowers) graveyard south of Teheran.
There they are invited to stand for a minute's silence in front of the
Fountain of Blood, a 14-foot high fountain out of which surges a
blood-red liquid, symbolizing, in the words of the guide, the essence of
Islam's message. At the end of the minute's silence, a choir of child
warriors recites a revolutionary song whose refrain is "Khomeini Me
Razmad! Amrika Mi Larzad! (Khomeini fights!
America
trembles!). Many visitors have tears in their eyes, tears of joy and
determination. Some end up as Volunteers of Martyrdom, keeping the camps
of Holy Terror busy.
pg 126: Who are these Brides of Blood who have secured a unique
place in Shiiate mythology? Not every female could aspire to so
distinguished a position: one has to be marked out for it by divine
will. The Brides of Blood are pure virgins who have decided to embrace
death in order to avenge the blood of Hussein who fell - a martyr - on
the battlefield of
Karbala
on 10 Oct. 680. The Brides of Blood are considered to be daughters of
the Prince of the Martyrs and, once in the next world, will have their
husbands chosen for them by Hussein from among "the most pious and
shapely of young men, free from blemish."
pg 133: .. the Shiiate tradition of taqiya, by which the faithful
can conceal the truth in order to protect the higher interests of the
community.
pg. 146: In July 1986, for example, the Islamic Republic's Embassy
in
Beirut
presented a strange gift to the Lebanese section of the Party of Allah.
It was an electrical machine, developed in the Islamic Scientific
Institute of Teheran, for cutting off fingers of people found guilty of
stealing.
pg. 152: Thinking (in Shiiate theology) is deemed not only
dangerous but also unnecessary, since all the answers to all the
imaginable questions can be found in the Quran and the Hadith.
pg. 202: The Islamic fundamentalist movement of the 1980s spared
none of the Muslim countries. It struck roots in societies as widely
different as
Indonesia
and
Algeria
. And in every instance it had resource to violence as a means of
furthering its political objective.
pg. 219: The Bulgarian government itself showed the way by
launching a de-Islamicization campaign aimed at "liberating"
the country's estimated 1.2 million from "the tyranny of a decant
ideology."
pg. 224: Early in 1986 a
Cairo
lawyer, Nur Farwaj, pronounced a sentence no one had the courage to
utter in the
land
of
Islam
for nearly a decade: "The shariah is a collection of reactionary
tribal rules unsuited to contemporary societies." Another lawyer,
Faraj Fade, a persuasive speaker as well as a passionate essayist, went
even farther and published a pamphlet under the provocative title of No
to Shariah. He put his argument directly: Islam has o policy suitable
for modern society and should not be mixed with politics. Instead of
entering into lengthy discussions all we have to do as thinking people
is to cry out together: "No to shariah."
pg 241:
A. Islam Is Not a Religion of Pacifists
There are two kinds of wars in Islam: one is called Jihad [Holy
War], which means the conquest of [other] countries in accordance with
certain conditions. The other [type] is war to preserve the independence
of the [Muslim] country and the repulsion of foreigners. Jihad or Holy
War, which is for the conquest of [other] countries and kingdoms,
becomes incumbent after the formation of the Islamic state in the
presence of the Imam of in accordance with his command. Then Islam makes
it incumbent on all the adult males, provided they are not disabled and
incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of [other]
countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the
world.
But world public opinion should know that Islam conquest is not
the same as conquests made by other rulers of the world. The latter want
to conquer the world for their own personal profit, whereas Islam's
conquest is aimed at serving the interests of the inhabitants of the
globe as a whole. [Non-Islamic] conquerors want to rule the world so
that they can spread through it every injustice and sexual indecency,
whereas Islam wants to conquer the world in order to promote spiritual
values, and to prepare mankind for justice and divine rule.
[Non-Islamic] conquers sacrifice the lives and possessions of the people
to their leisure and pleasure. But Islam does not allow its leaders and
generals to enjoy themselves or to have a moment's leisure; in this way
the lives and property of people can be protected and bases of injustice
destroyed in the world.
Islam's Hoy War is a struggle against idolatry, sexual deviation
plunder, repression and cruelty. The war waged by [non-Islamic]
conquerors, however, aims at promoting lust and animal pleasures. They
care not if whole countries are wiped out and many families left
homeless. But those who study Islamic holy War will understand why Islam
wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Ilam or
to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation.
For they shall live under Light Celestial Law......
Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels
against war. those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the
unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims
should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam
says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter
[their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome
us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill
you! Does this mean that we should surrender [ to the enemy]? Islam
says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the
shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the
sword! The sword is the key to
Paradise
, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors!
There are hundreds of other [Quranic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings
of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that
mean that Islam is a religion that prevents from waging war? I spit upon
those foolish souls who make such a claim.
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Kashf al-Asrar (Key to the
Secrets),
Qom
, 1986. (Originally published in Qom in 1942 and reprinted in Teheran in
1980 and 1983.)
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