Christina McIntosh on Daniel Pipes dreamy Islam vs “political” Islam, or “radical” Islam, or all these other kinds that one cannot possibly separate from the really thing:
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Pipes reports: “… the coalition issued the following statement, important because it clearly distinguishes between political Islam and the religion of Islam..”. Such a ‘distinguishing’ is a distinction without a difference. Islam is Islam is Islam. It was not ‘political Islam’ that Winston Churchill called “the religion of blood and war”, but.. Islam, itself. Jacques Ellul, in his discussion of jihad, prefaced to Bat Yeor’s “The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam” (NOT, one might note, “The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Political Islam”), says – of Islam, Islam, ISLAM, that it is “fundamentally warlike”. Surely Daniel Pipes has read Churchill, and Ellul, on the subject of Islam. Surely he knows what John Quincy Adams said of it, back in the day: discussing not something nasty called ‘political Islam’ that can be distinguished from something else that isn’t nasty, or is not quite so nasty, called ‘the religion of Islam’, but.. .Islam, pur et dur. And perhaps he should – if he has not already – read Conor Cruise O’Brien, who said bluntly, in “The Lesson of Algeria: Islam is Indivisible”, “Fundamentalist Islam” (or, pace Mr Pipes and others, “political Islam” – CM) is a misnomer which dulls our perception in a dangerous way. It does so by implying that there is some other kind of Islam, which is well disposed to those who reject the Koran. There isn’t. Islam is a universalist, triumphalist, and political religion. It claims de jure dominion over all humanity; that is God’s (sic: Allah’s – CM) will. The actual state of affairs, with unbelievers of various sorts dominating most of the world, is a suspension of God’s (sic: Allah’s – CM) will, and a scandal to the [Muslim] faithful.

The world is divided between the House of Islam, and the House of War, meaning, the rest of us….Jihad is defined as “the religious duty to wage war upon those who do not accept the doctrines of Islam’. The prophet mohamed himself not merely preached but waged jihad. God’s [sic: allah’s] word, dictated to the prophet and preached by him, is binding on all Muslims, and his example is their inspiration…. What is going on today in the Muslim world is not the advent of some aberrant thing called ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ [or, for that matter, ‘political Islam’ – CM] but a revival of Islam itself – the real thing… The jihad is back…”. More, from the lucid O’Brien – “The prophet mohamed did not offer his followers a chance to live in harmony with their neighbours. He taught them to fight their neighbours, if they were unbelievers, and kill them, or beat them into submission. And it is futile to say, of those Muslims who faithfully follow those teachings today, that their actions are ‘not intrinsically related to Islam”. We are facing an Islamic revival..”. Thus O’Brien in, of all places, the ‘Independent’, back in January 1995. Islam is.. Islam. And if you have Muslims inside the gates, then you have Jihad. So those persons, and parties, within Europe or any other majority-Infidel country anywhere in the world, who seek to expel from their midst Muslim colonies from which jihad is pullulating, and/ or prevent the entry of more Muslims into their lands, are seeking to put in practice elementary policies of self-preservation. they are exercising the precautionary principle. Got Muslims? Got Jihad. Only way not to have jihad waged within the gates by, for example, men with sharpened knives on Westminster Bridge or men driving trucks full tilt at terrified pedestrians on an esplanade in Nice, is… NOT to have Muslims inside the gates. The general ruck of the Ummah, the homes and mosques and madrasas and internet sites and the Islamised enclaves – like Molenbeek – from which the previously resident infidels are steadily and inexorably driven out, is the sheltering, nurturing sea within which those murderous jihadists swim and from which, ceaselessly and naturally, they emerge, whether as individuals or groups or.. a whole damn army. I wonder whether Pipes has ever read ex-Muslim Sam Solomon’s “Al-Hijra: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration”? Continue reading If you have Muslims inside the gates, or on your borders, then you have Jihad