Bleeding for Allah: Why Islam Will Conquer the Free World. What Americans Need to Know.

BLEEDING

For

ALLAH

Why Islam will Conquer the Free World

What Americans Need to Know

By

Markus Aurelius

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First published by AuthorHouse 2/20/2008

ISBN: 978-1-4343-5163-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4678-6388-9 (ebk)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007909009

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Contents

Introduction

PART I

The Making of a Religion

Chapter One

The Beginning of the End

Chapter Two

Cultural Slavery

Chapter Three

The Crossroads to Eternity…

The Three Worlds

Chapter 4

The Pragmatic Prophet

PART II

The Growth Pains of Islam

Chapter Five

Islam Explodes

Chapter 6

History is the Truest Witness

PART III

Abraham’s Sorrow

Chapter Seven

The Consequences of Inaction

Recommendations and Conclusions

Epilogue

Appendices

Notes

Select References

About the Author

Introduction

We will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.

What? Something must be wrong here, I thought to myself.

In typical fashion, I had grabbed the targeted book off the shelf and randomly opened it up to pick at the guts of the subject. But this line had left me perplexed. My thumb held the spot, page 55, and I read it again.

We will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.

I had ventured out on an ordinary Tuesday night to the local bookstore for some fresh reading, but this was not at all what I was expecting to find. I was looking for new words of insight, wisdom…enlightenment. My thumb grabbed another thirty pages. It found page 85. I went straight to the middle of the page and read.

Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends.

This line struck me like a hammer to the forehead. One more time, I thought to myself. I hoped that my thumb would land on some glorious page that would immediately dispel my current state of confused disbelief. To be safe, I went to nearly the end of the book, page 399.

"Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and deal sternly with them."

In nearly half a century of reading about every subject imaginable, no book had surprised me so suddenly and so powerfully. I bought the book…the Koran.

So began my five-year, soul-searching study into the chilling history and culture of Islam. The work would include the digestion of more than one hundred and fifty texts, both modern and antiquarian, hundreds more news articles, dozens of interviews and most importantly, the detailed reading of the Koran. I have read the Koran from cover to cover four times now and have put many of the scriptures to memory. After years of examination, my unfortunate conclusion is this: few faiths, if any, but Islam, can justify their violence with direct support from the very words of their God.

But why would a person like myself put themselves through all this research, years of study, writing and re-writing? I’m not a college professor, theologian or philosopher. I have little to gain, and maybe much to lose, by doing so.

Good question. I don’t really have a good answer except to say that all of my life I have researched history, archaeology, geology and religion in trying to assemble some understanding of how we got here and where we are going. For nearly fifty years I have collected fossils, ancient coins, scrolls and texts, weapons and religious artifacts and relics of every kind. I have found through the years that these things fascinate some people with their connection to the past and others could care less and consider such things as nothing but very old crap. I’m a terminal member of the first group.

To give you some insight into this eccentricity, I’ll share how I ran away once in my childhood. I went to live in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It made sense to me to be there with the gigantic Brontosaurus and room after room of incredible creatures from the distant past. I really hadn’t thought about food or anything like that…I was in kindergarten. Anyway, a janitor found me in a corner at closing time and hauled me in. My frantic mother was there in no time. Back then, outraged moms could beat their kids in public. She did. My mother had her hands full for many years to come. A half century later I now have this story to tell.

One way or another, we are all bleeding for al-Lah (Allah), the Supreme God of the Islamic world. That God may or may not be your God. You may not even have a God that you worship or revere. It really doesn’t matter. Virtually everyone on the planet falls into one group or another that has, is, or will be impacted by those in slavery to the Koran (al Qur’an, The Alcoran).

First, there are the young Muslim (one who has surrendered) men who have been throwing away their lives for at least 9oo years. Sometimes driven by the despair of poverty, sometimes by the intensity of their faith, they follow their hateful religious leaders’ prerogatives. It is difficult to be sympathetic to these men who are creating so much bloodshed and grief, but they are victims in a way as well. Victims, whose love of God and worldly despair are being manipulated by those with bloody agendas and who possess Holy Scriptures that they can point to as infallible and indisputable. Their leaders simply choose to ignore the opposing scriptures from that same book that contradict the violent directives.

And if the Muslim youth die properly, they are told, the misery of this world is behind them and many virgins in Heaven await them. Such assurances many Muslim youth can gather from quotes such as these:

"Never think that those who are slain in the cause for God are dead. They are alive and well provided for by their Lord". -al Qur’an 3:169

God has purchased from the faithful their lives and worldly goods, and has promised them in return the Garden. They will fight for the cause of God, they will slay and be slain. -al Qur’an 9 (Repentance):111

Within this book you will find more than one hundred direct quotes from the Holy Scriptures of al Qur’an (the Koran). They are the very words of al-Lah, the Everlasting God of Islam, that specifically direct Muslim men to violence and retribution against the unbelievers of Muhammad’s revelations. There are over 400 references to those who are not Muslims in the Koran. In the Koran, non-Muslims go by names like wrongdoers, evildoers, transgressors, infidels, idolaters, losers, unbelievers and disbelievers. There are more than 600 references to punishment, torment, torture, curse, retribution, scourge, terror, fight, attack, ambush and war in the Holy Koran. (Appendix B has a complete numerical compilation). For example:

"Believers, make war on the infidels."

-al Qur’an 9:123

"In throngs, the unbelievers shall be led to Hell."

-al Qur’an 39 (The Throngs):71

"The unbelievers say: ‘Pay no heed to the Koran.’ We will sternly punish these unbelievers, and pay them back for the worst of their misdeeds. Thus shall the enemies of God be recompensed. The Fire shall forever be their home…" -al Qur’an 41:26 (Revelations Well Expounded)

The second group that is bleeding for Allah are those millions of people who have paid, and will continue to pay, the price for this faith system in blood, death and destruction. The direct victims have been everything from moderate Muslim citizens to conquered Christians such as those that suffered in the vast and horrible Armenian genocide that took 1.5 million lives only 85 years ago. Countless Buddhists have been driven from their homes and their temples destroyed, while immeasurable numbers of Hindus have been coldly massacred. Zoroastrians, the believers of the native faith of Persia and once numbering in the millions, have almost ceased to exist.

As you read this book you will see the history of violence, suppression and subjugation that is rooted in the very beginning of the Islamic religion. No doubt you are already shaking your head that this cannot be so. What you have heard is so significantly different than this. Our problems in the Middle East, you have heard and want to believe, are simply because a group of misguided fanatics have taken it upon themselves to invent some kind of unbelievably violent and deviant form of an Islamic-like religion.

Sadly, this is simply not the case. There is a demonstrable violent root imbedded in the Islamic Scriptures that allows, and in fact, demands physical action against non-believers. Therefore, Muslims do not have to play by the same rules as the Christian world.

As will be discussed in much detail, virtually every society and religion has more than their share to hang their heads about. However, when other religions have been used as a pretext to violence, their religious leaders have typically had to extrapolate, exaggerate or completely fabricate Holy support. Not so with Islam.

When Islamic theology is fused with the hopelessness of abject poverty and despair and then supported by unlimited petro-cash, horrific violence looms like the expected result of an explosive algebraic equation. Combined with today’s incredible technology and the availability of just about anything, tomorrow’s violence will dwarf the catastrophe of 9/11.

The final, but not least group, that is bleeding for Allah are the rest of us who are paying a monumental price through countless billions of dollars spent on fear control and untold worldwide anxiety. As distressing as this may seem, it is only the beginning.

Westerners, and particularly Americans, are trying to understand why we are so hated when we give so much. Simply put, we are unbelievers to the Islamic faithful and for the fundamentalist Muslims that is enough. But Americans are also perceived as indulging in excessive materialism, global arrogance and of exploiting their resources. Yes, we have our weaknesses, but so does every society.

In turn, we are locked into a hopeful worldview that everyone else also thinks that it is a given right to live and worship as they see fit. We are bombarded daily with reports of alleged religious discrimination, or for that matter, anti-religious discrimination, somewhere in our country. American schools, courts, offices all around the nation are paralyzed with what to say or how to accommodate a simple religious holiday. We have become "discrimination paranoid". As a result, American politicians and citizens alike are rendered incapacitated when facing an insidious religious threat.

In stark contrast, in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and a bastion of Islamic fundamentalism, it is still a capital crime, punishable by death, for a Saudi citizen to covert from Islam to Christianity! Consider this: slavery was not abolished in Saudi Arabia until 1966.

That’s right, 1966. Even that didn’t occur until worldwide political pressure was levied on the Saudis. And many Americans think that Saudi Arabia is a more western thinking Muslim country! Why do you think that no matter how much goes on in the Middle East, you almost never see news footage from inside Saudi Arabia? Even with all the cable news that we have now, when was the last time that you saw a freelance reporter giving an unstructured report from that kingdom?

Americans have been led to believe, and many of us want to believe, that Saudi Arabia is some kind of western-culture leaning, moderate Islamic state. Sure, we think that they are an old fashion kingdom, and that they are working on reform. What a laugh! The Saudi’s are experts at telling the west exactly what we want to hear.

Saudi Arabia may be the world’s leader in petroleum exports, but they are in the Stone Age relative to progressive thinking, tolerance and democracy. And they have absolutely no intentions of changing anything. Borrowing words from our predecessors, the Native American Indians who were continuously bamboozled by state and federal representatives for centuries in our own country, the Saudi’s speak with forked tongues.

In a recent study presented to the World Economic Forum in the spring of 2005, it was shown that of sixteen Islamic nations that were objectively evaluated for democratic and civil rights components, Saudi Arabia ranked dead last.¹ And that’s dead last on a list of countries that are not exactly global leaders in reform either. In fact, women in Saudi Arabia have near zero constitutional rights (not that they have a constitution as we understand the term). For that matter, women are not even allowed to drive automobiles, as that would represent simply too much liberty for the inferior female gender. In defense of this gender discrimination, the Saudi’s refer to the Koran:

"Men have authority over woman because God made the one superior to the other. Good women are obedient". -al Qur’an 4:34

Of course, if women don’t obey their Muslim husbands as they should there are very clear directives in the Islamic Holy Scriptures as to what the faithful shall do:

As for those that you fear disobedience, admonish them, forsake them in beds apart and beat them. -al Qur’an 4:35

Unfortunately, holy verses such as these lead to outrageous crimes such as the murder of the beautiful twenty three year old Muslim woman Hatin Surucu who had moved to Germany. She was killed by her brothers for not properly obeying Islam.² Hatin was just one of forty victims of such Muslim honor violence against women in Germany since 1996.

Is change on the horizon? Hardly. Recently, it was proposed that women in Saudi Arabia receive the right to drive an automobile. Mohammad al-Zulfa, a member of the Consultative Council appointed by the King, made the proposal in May 2005 and may now, as a consequence of such an outrageous proposal, face imprisonment and even loss of his Saudi citizenship. The Saudi mentality, if they were not so deadly serious, would border on the comical by our western perspective. The Arabian fury regarding women possibly receiving some rights poured out into the media and onto the streets.

Driving by women leads to evil. Can you imagine what it would be like if her car broke down? She would have to seek help from men.

-Manuir al-Shahrani, in a published letter in a daily Saudi newspaper.³

To be fair, the United States is hardly the historical vanguard of womens’ rights. It was not until 1918 that President Wilson publicly endorsed equal voting rights for women and not until 1920 that the 19th Amendment was ratified. On balance, it was at a time when the affluent drove a Model T Ford, and cavalry was still being used in warfare. But even today, our Christian and Jewish traditions still make it extremely difficult for a female to be a religious leader, priest or rabbi.

But that is close to where it ends. Our religious shortcomings rarely dictate what individuals can and cannot do within the detailed fabric of their daily lives. However, what you can wear, who can drive, what you can read, who can go to the beach, who can have a public opinion, where, when and how you pray are not individual options in fundamentalist Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia.

Recently, I obtained an obscure Saudi Arabian government publication entitled Documents of the Saudi Press Agency (1988) which is a collection of essays and reports on the marvelous technological and social advances initiated by the Saudi government (the King). It is well prepared and extremely edited. There is not a negative word to be found by those who would buy the book while touring in Saudi Arabia or while on pilgrimage to Mecca. After all, it is actually about the King and is approved by the King.

There are detailed, chamber-of-commerce type synopses of the government’s progress of everything from transportation improvements to water treatment facilities to education and medical facilities. Like any local good propaganda publication, one is left with impression that the place is nearly Nirvana. And, of course, no good self-promoting treatise would be complete without the words of the sponsor. In this particular case that would be King Fahd Ibn Abdul Aziz, who is titled The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (Mecca and Medina).

In the brief three and a half-page introduction from the King, various topics are covered from Palestine to Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon. In just a handful of paragraphs, the King refers to Allah, Muhammad or Islam over fifty times emphasizing his devout faith. We must keep this in mind as we view things from a culture that has had constitutional rulings forbidding Christian symbols from being placed in courthouses and schools and from being located on city flags.

Even in this very watered down, politically correct (at least to the Saudis) essay by the King, the shadow of their ingrained cultural obsession with religious militancy is cast. For example, near the end of the King’s dutiful report to his subjects, the King states:

"We will defend these interests with our lives and blood as with all other means guided by our trust in God (Allah) and our adherence to the Book of God (Koran) and the Sayings and Practices of His Prophet (Muhammad)….

…We will continue our efforts and jihad (holy war) for the achievement of the just demands of the Palestinian people…"⁴ (parentheses added).

Political perspective aside, the Muslim Saudi King simply cannot separate himself from the concept of applying God and holy war to achieve their goals. And this was from a moderate Saudi King who was desperately trying to be a centrist Islamic leader. The Muslims simply cannot partition away this part of their culture any more than we can begin ignoring Christmas or football games.

Again, and to emphasize the point, the super hard-line Islamist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and devout follower of the return of Mehdi, the messianic 12th Imam, was elected President of Iran in a landslide victory in June of 2005.

"…Ahmadinejad has vowed to return to the principles of the Islamic Revolution more than a quarter of a century ago." ⁵

The reformers in Iran, which has a 30% unemployment rate, who had been desperately hoping for a small glimmer of improvement in their country, collectively groaned a deep melancholy chorus.

The Iranian President is ever so quotable too:

Are they human beings?…The Zionists are a group of blood-thirsty savages putting all other criminals to shame. August 2, 2006 ⁶

Israel must be wiped off the map… October 26, 2006 ⁷

By God’s will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future. June 3, 2007 ⁸

Remember too that President Ahmadinejad did not come to power by force of arms but had to capture the support of the Isalmic Council and the electorate. He reflects the will of the national religious leadership.

For those who worry about gay rights, same sex marriages and the rights of the gay clergy consider the public hangings of two teenagers (Mahmoud Asgari, 16 and Ayaz Marhoni, 18) in quaint old Iran on July 19, 2005 for being homosexuals⁹. And you think that right-wing Christian America is intolerant!

Poverty, western imperialism and exploitation as well as historic Christian atrocities are given daily as causes for the terrorism that we are experiencing. While each of these plays some role (and there will be no glossing over of western culpability) the catalyst that actually ignites these ingredients may be the Koran itself.

Mexico City is the arguably the largest city in the world with a metropolitan population of nearly 20 million people and is hammered with profound and abysmal poverty. Much of rural and urban South America fares no better. They have also been subject to centuries of imperialism from the time of the conquistadors to the imposition of the Panama Canal. But where can we find Latino terrorists who are blowing themselves up? Sure, there are drug lords and criminal bosses that have engaged in terrorism for centuries, murdering civilians, police and rivals. They have no limits to their butchery of those who are interfering with their quest for money and power. They unhesitatingly kill family members to achieve their goals. They do it as a matter of business, black and unrestrained evil as it is, but not for God or glory.

In the arguments on why and how Islam will overcome Christianity, only direct quotes from the Bible and the Koran will be used. What will not be used are anyone else’s subsequent theological interpretations of either of the Scriptures, present or past, no matter how looming or profound that Christian, Islamic or governmental leader was or is.

Primarily, the words of the three great Messengers of God, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, will be examined. Quite frankly, that will be enough. Their millennia old words are believed by billions to be the living word of their God, whether he is called Jehovah, al-Lah, Yahweh or Lord or a hundred other names.

Ironically, believers love the same God. Be that God called Jehovah, Allah, Christ, Vishnu, Ahura Mazda, Waheguru, Shiva, Yahweh, El Shaddai, Shang Ti, Great Spirit, Mwari or the Master of Life, we all love Him. This Creator of the Universe, Who was here before the beginning and will be here after the end, Who is the Architect of Eternity and is incomprehensible… the Merciful, Who made us in love, cannot possibly want us to destroy ourselves. Even if we call our own God by some another name.

It is not our love of the Almighty that gets us into trouble with each other but our man-words. It is those words that we have written, verbalized or imagined, both ancient and modern, considered holy or not, that tear us apart.

The Torah, the Gospels, and the Qur’an are considered the Divine Truth and Law, the Logos or the final written manifestation of the universal word of God by their respective followers. Therefore, one really should not need much more information besides a number of historical facts and an open set of eyes to embrace the truth. It is important to note that the New Testament is the primary Christian reference that is used for comparison purposes with the Koran.

The prophets and scriptures from two other powerfully influencing religions, Zoroastrianism and Hinduism are also touched upon within this work. Other quotes from diverse philosophies and religions, such as Buddhism and Stoicism, as well as news reports from around the world, are interjected throughout this book to illustrate certain points. Several more quotes are included as well that reflect on prophecy or to provoke analysis. But those quotes will not be examined in themselves as they are only indirectly related to Islamic determinism.

Please note that any underlines placed in the quotes have been added by the writer. However, there have been absolutely no words, phrases or sentences changed in any way from the original (although otherwise translated) scriptural texts by the writer. Please also recognize that the Gospels originally did not have verse numbers, nor did the Koran. These were added later to these Scriptures as a convenience to help readers. The writer begs your tolerance as a few of the verse numbers may be off slightly due to the Arabic /English structural conversion. Also what the writer calls a Chapter is more appropriately called a Surah relative to the Koran. Additionally, the Surah titles are regularly given in parentheses for cross-referencing purposes.

The author has referred to two literary giants for referencing the translation of the Koran. Primarily, N. J. Dawood’s classic 1956 translation (the first into contemporary English) which has had many minor revisions, the last being in 1999. Mr. Dawood was born in Baghdad and graduated from London University. His work has sold well over one million copies. Secondarily relied upon is the author’s 204 year old Alcoran of Muhammad (published 1801 in London), which is a renown, early translation into English by George Sale.

Another translation of the Koran by Mohammad Habib Shakir is also occasionally used to further substantiate certain points. Shakir (1866 - 1939), an Egyptian, had his work published in the United States initially in 1983. Koranic translations that are post-September 11, 2001 were purposely avoided in this work. Unless otherwise noted, any Koran verses used are from Dawood’s work. Occasionally, several different translations of the same Surah are given to illustrate that the words may be somewhat different but the message is essentially the same.

Three separate Old and New Testament references books were systematically utilized: The 1990 New International Version Bible, published by B.B. Kirkbride Bible Company (United States), The New American (Catholic) Bible with