Main Idea
Virtually every major Western leader has over the past several
years expressed the view that Islam is a peaceful religion and
that those who commit violence in its name are fanatics who
misinterpret its tenets. This claim, while widely circulated,
rarely attracts serious public examination. Relying primarily on
Islam’s own sources, this documentary demonstrates that Islam is
a violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the destruction or
subjugation of other faiths, cultures, and systems of
government.
Content
The documentary consists of original interviews, citations from
Islamic texts, Islamic artwork, computer-animated maps, footage
of Western leaders, and Islamic television broadcasts. Its tone
is sober, methodical, and compelling.
Outline of the Documentary
Introduction
We hear from prominent Western leaders that Islam is peaceful
and that those who commit violence in its name are heterodox
fanatics.
Part 1: ‘There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his
Prophet’
Our interviewees affirm their belief that Islamic violence is
entirely orthodox behavior for Muslims and stems directly from
the teachings and example of the Prophet Muhammad and the
commands of the Koran. We learn that the example of Muhammad is
one of a violent warlord who killed numerous people. The Koran –
the verbatim words of Allah – prescribes violence against
non-Muslims and Muhammad is the perfect example of the Koran in
action.
Part 2: The Struggle
We learn that jihad, while literally meaning 'struggle', in fact
denotes war fought against non-Muslims in order to bring the
rule of Islamic law to the world. Violent death in jihad is,
according to the Koran, the only assurance of salvation. One of
our interviewees tells of his personal involvement in terrorism
and his leaving Islam.
Part 3: Expansion
Following the death of Muhammad, his 'rightly-guided' successors
carried his wars to three continents, fighting, enslaving, and
massacring countless Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and others. Islam
did not spread through evangelism or through its natural appeal,
but through aggressive wars of conquest. The Crusades were
largely a belated response on the part of Christian Europe to
rescue Christians in the Holy Land suffering under Muslim
oppression. The Muslim world today, while no longer the unified
empire of the Caliphs, is exceptional for being responsible for
the vast majority of conflicts around the world and for almost
all of international terrorism.
Part 4: ‘War is Deceit’
A great problem with Western efforts to understand Islam is due
to the Islamic principle of 'religious deception', which enjoins
Muslims to deceive non-Muslims in order to advance the cause of
Islam. Muslim groups today in the West employ deception and
omission to give the impression that 'Islam is a religion of
peace', an utter fiction.
Part 5: More than a Religion
The most important characteristic of Islam not understood by the
West is that it is more a system of government than a personal
religion. Throughout its history, Islam has never recognized a
distinction between the religious and the secular/political.
Islamic law governs every aspect of religious, political, and
personal action, which amounts to a form of totalitarianism that
is divinely enjoined to dominate the world, analogous in many
ways to Communism.
Part 6: The House of War
Islamic theology divides the world into two spheres locked in
perpetual combat, dar al-Islam (House of Islam - where Islamic
law predominates), and dar al-harb (House of War - the rest of
the world). It is incumbent on dar al-Islam to fight and conquer
dar al-harb and permanently assimilate it. Muslims in Western
nations are called to subvert the secular regimes in which they
now live in accordance with Allah's command. Due to political
correctness and general government and media irresponsibility,
the danger posed by observant Muslims in the West remains
largely unappreciated.
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