John Quincy Adams on Islam |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2014 01:15 AM PST
Son of one of America's most important founding fathers (John
Adams), John Quincy Adams was by his father's side during the creation of a
new country. He went with his father to France and the Netherlands on
important diplomatic missions, and later in his life John Quincy was
Secretary to the American Minister to Russia, was the Secretary to his father
during peace negotiations that ended the American Revolution in 1783, served
as U.S. foreign ambassador, both to the Netherlands and later to Portugal,
under George Washington, to Prussia under his father’s presidency, and then
to Russia and later to England under President James Madison. He served as a
U.S. Senator, Secretary of State under President James Monroe, and then as
the nation’s sixth President (1825-1829), and finally as a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives, where he was a staunch and fervent opponent of
slavery.
After his presidency, but before his election to Congress in 1830, John Quincy wrote several essays dealing with one of the many Russo-Turkish Wars. In these essays, we see an educated description of Islam and the threat it poses to freedom in the world. This is what John Quincy Adams wrote (the capitalization is in the original):
In the seventh century
of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian,
combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of
a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a
messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive
portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law,
the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the
audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from
the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of
future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards
and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He
poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the
condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared
undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against
all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST:
TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus. Notice that Adams not only documents the violent nature of Islam, he further exposes the mistreatment of women embedded in Islamic doctrine. A few pages later, Adams again spotlights the coercive, violent nature of Islam, as well as the Muslim’s right to lie and deceive to advance Islam:
The precept of the
koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of
God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the
victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the
faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of
defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory,
when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed
alike, by fraud, or by force.
Sources for the above:
§ The biographical material on Adams above is an edited version of
the original, which can be found here: Source 1
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