What the Jihadists Want

Why do they keep attacking?  Why do they hate us so much?  That is the question many are asking about the endless string of Jihadist attacks that have occurred all over the world ever since 9/11.  Everyday we see hear of another Jihadist attack somewhere in the world.  These attacks target Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Homosexuals, Atheists, even other Muslims.  The question is: Why?  The answer is simply this: they are Barbarians.  



Dr. Michael Youssef defines Barbarian as "a person who is not part of our civilization, who wants no part of our civilization, and who seek the conquest and destruction of our civilization."  The Jihadist Barbarians want to restructure the entire planet in accordance with the laws of Islam, who want to replace any and all forms of secularism with Sharia.  They want all opposing ideologies gone, especially those rooted in Judeo-Christian values, and they will wage war on anyone who embraces any ideology other than that if Islamist supremacy.  For the time being, many of these Barbarians seek to take advantage of our weakness, to use our own laws and softhearted nature against us, to slowly push our society to what they want it to be.  Elsewhere in the world, in areas like Iraq, Pakistan, and Egypt, they have such overwhelming power that they have the luxury of enforcing their ideas by the point of the sword.  This serves to explain why so many Jihadists in Islamic lands kill their fellow Muslims.

Many in the world know how Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban because she fought for her rights to an education, her right to be an equal in society.  Yet, there are many other Muslims in the world who suffer the same fate.  Salman Taseer, the former Muslim Governor of the Punjab Province of Pakistan was assassinated for opposing Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws and urging equal rights for all Pakistani citizens.  Dr. Ahmed Mansour, a Qur'anist Muslim who opposes Sharia and supports Western Views on Equality was fired from his job at Al Azhar University, put in prison, and eventually forced to flee Egypt after Jihadists killed several of his colleagues and threatened to kill him too.  The reason they give is in Surah 4:65 of the Qur'an: "But know by your Lord, the Will not truly believe until they make you (Muhammad) judge concerning over which they dispute among themselves and then find within themselves no discomfort from what you had judged and submit in full, willing submission. 

This means that to be a true Muslim, you must follow any and all commands and actions decreed by Muhammad without question.  To go against any of them means you will be labeled a hypocrite, and the fate of hypocrites is not good: Surah 9:73 - "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination." 

Under these decrees, the attacks on these peaceful Muslims who oppose the Jihadist barbarians is permitted, because under the decrees of Sharia, which is interpreted from the teachings and actions of Muhammad, women cannot be equal to men, non-Muslims cannot be equal to Muslims, and to go against Muhammad's decrees in any way, shape, or form, is not permitted.  Under the Jihadist Barbarians, dominance is the only option.  Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) founder Omar Ahmed in echoed this view in 1998 when he decreed that Islam isn’t in America to be equal, but to dominate.  What we call "diplomacy," Jihadists call "weakness."  Everything that we prize in the West: Peace, Freedom, Knowledge, Tolerance, Human Rights, and the value of the individual, is scorned by the Jihadists.  They are willing to fight and kill to ensure that these ideas are erased from the face of the Earth, and whether they are expressed in the the heartland of Saudi Arabia, or in the Halls of Congress. 

How do we stop this?  The first and most important thing that we must learn is this: the Jihadist Barbarians will Never be Appeased!!!  Any concession that we give them, will be turned against us.  Until we come to this realization, we will not be able to take the necessary, and correct measures of dealing with the threat of the Jihadist Barbarians.  Once this is realized, we have to expose the Jihadist ideology for what it is.  To show people that this is an ideology that believes in turning the whole planet into a battlefield in order to establish their will on the Earth.  

If this means pushing the entire world to Armageddon, then that's a sacrifice they are prepared to make.  When the world knows of this, they will find the strength and courage needed to unite against the Barbarians and stamp out their ideology once and for all.  The Jihadist Barbarians are much like the Nazi Barbarians of the 1930's.  They both want to remake the world into what they want it to be, and are prepared to take out anyone who opposes them.  We must not make the mistake we made with the Nazis and let them gain enough power to carry out their mission.  We must unite now, before it's too late.    

Sources

Darwish, Nonie.  Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror.  New York: Penguin Group, 2006.

King, Jeff.  Islam Uncensored.  2012

Yousseff, Michael.  The Barbarians are Here: Preventing the Collapse of Western Civilization in Times of Terrorism.  Franklin TN: Worthy Publishing, 2017.

The Glorious Qur'an.  Translated by Muhammad M. Pickthall.