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Jihadi hate for non-Muslims is not limited to the Islamic State, which
U.S. leadership dismisses as neither a real state nor representative of
Islam. Rather, it's the official position of, among others, Saudi
Arabia — a very real state, birthplace of Islam, and, of course,
"friend and ally" of America.
Saudi Arabia's Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing
Fatwas — which issues religious decrees that become law — issued a fatwa,
or decree, titled, "Duty to Hate Jews, Polytheists, and Other
Infidels." Written by Sheikh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz (d. 1999), former
grand mufti and highest religious authority in the government, it still
appears on the website.
According to this governmentally-supported fatwa, Muslims — that is,
the entire Saudi citizenry — must "oppose and hate whomever Allah
commands us to oppose and hate, including the Jews, the Christians, and
other mushrikin [non-Muslims], until they believe in Allah alone
and abide by his laws, which he sent down to his Prophet Muhammad, peace
and blessings upon him."
To prove this, Baz quotes a number of Koran verses that form the
doctrine of Loyalty and Enmity — the same doctrine every Sunni jihadi
organization evokes to the point of concluding that Muslim
men must hate their Christian or Jewish wives (though they may enjoy
them sexually).
These Koran verses include: "Do not take the Jews and the
Christians for your friends and allies" (5:51) and "You shall
find none who believe in Allah and the Last Day on friendly terms with
those who oppose Allah and His Messenger [i.e., non-Muslims] — even if
they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers, or their nearest
kindred" (58:22; see also 3:28, 60:4, 2:120).
After quoting the verses, Baz reiterates:
Such verses are many and offer clear
proofs concerning the obligation to despise infidels from the Jews,
Christians, and all other non-Muslims, as well as the obligation to
oppose them until they believe in Allah alone.
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Sheikh
Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz
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Despite documenting its official hatred for all non-Muslims (albeit on
a website virtually unknown in the West), in the international arena,
Saudi Arabia claims
"to support the principles of justice, humanity, promotion of values
and the principles of tolerance in the world," and sometimes accuses
the West for its supposed "discrimination based on religion."
Such hypocrisy is manifest everywhere and explains how the Saudi
government's official policy can be to hate Christians and Jews —
children are taught to ritually curse them in grade school — while its
leading men fund things like Georgetown University's Prince Alwaleed bin
Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (the real purpose of
which appears to be to fund influential "Christian" academics
to whitewash Islam before the public).
Our other "good friend and ally," Qatar, also officially
documents its hate for every non-Muslim — or practically 100 percent of
America's population. A website owned by the Qatari Ministry of Awqaf and
Islamic Affairs published a fatwa
titled "The Obligation of Hating Infidels, Being Clean of Them, and
Not Befriending Them."
Along with citing the usual Loyalty and Enmity verses, the fatwa adds
that Christians should be especially hated because they believe that God
is one of three (Trinity), that Christ is the Son of God, and that he was
crucified and resurrected for the sins of mankind — all cardinal
doctrines of Christianity that are vehemently lambasted in the Koran (see
5:72-81).
Incidentally, this same Qatari government-owned website once published
a fatwa legitimizing the burning of "infidels" — only to remove
it soon after the Islamic State justified
its burning of a Jordanian pilot by citing several arguments from the
fatwa.
In short, it's not this or that "radical," who "doesn't
represent Islam," or isn't a "real state," that hates
non-Muslim "infidels." Rather, it's the official position
of the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which are presented to the
American public as "friends and allies."
Thus, as American talking heads express their "moral
outrage" at Donald Trump's call
"for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United
States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going
on," perhaps they should first consider the official position of
foreign Muslim governments — beginning with U.S. "friends and
allies" — concerning Americans: unmitigated hate and opposition
"until they believe in Allah alone and abide by his laws."
That might explain why the majority of terrorism is committed by
Muslims and why the majority
of Americans support Trump's measures.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Judith
Friedman Rosen fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman fellow at
the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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