Just Peace For Israel

Does Friction With the West Make Muslims Angry?

The Armageddon File Compiled by Mark L. Levinson & Murray Greenfield

Isn’t it Only Friction with the West That Makes the Muslims Angry?

“When someone dies outside of Islam, hellfire is his fate.”
First-grade Saudi textbook, Monotheism and Jurisprudence

A tenth-grade Saudi textbook attacks rival traditions not only outside but also inside Islam. It refers to Muslims with different beliefs as polytheists — believers in many gods. This accusation, which is the same as saying that they aren’t Muslims at all, that their lives are cheap, and that they will end up in Hell, is directed at Shiites, at Sufis, at Asharite and Maturidi Sunnis, and in short at the majority of Muslims — not only in the world at large, but even in Saudi Arabia itself. The Asharites and Maturidis are condemned as idol worshippers because their brand of Islam does not interpret the Koran literally enough

As Pakistani journalist Irfan Husain wrote in 2001, “When Iraq attacked Iran in 1980, both sides declared jihad against each other, and millions of young men fell in the name of a common faith. The two sides fighting in Afghanistan these last several years are both Muslim and claim to be waging jihad.” Saddam Hussein invoked Allah when he invaded Kuwait, and the Kuwaiti rulers called for jihad against Saddam.

Islam glorifies battle, and if those who reject Muhammad are not a convenient enemy, then a fight can be picked with those who also accept him.

The Armageddon File - Introduction

Compiled by Mark L. Levinson & Murray Greenfield

Armageddon, the ultimate war of conscience against conquest, may be decided in violent confrontation, in the media, or in the classroom. Among civilized nations, only a government has a mandate to violently confront its enemy. But it is every citizen’s mandate to call the broadcasters, educators, and other opinion-makers to account if they whitewash or legitimize the enemy’s destructive values.

We thank the Center for Religious Freedom and Professor Moshe Sharon for most of the material in this pamphlet, the chapters of which appear as a series on this weblog.

Sister Religions? Not Quite!

The Armageddon File Compiled by Mark L. Levinson & Murray Greenfield

Aren’t Islam, Christianity, and Judaism all sister religions?

“The Jews and Christians are enemies of the believers...”
Ninth grade Saudi textbook, Hadith

The way Islam sees it, Judaism and Christianity are just degenerate versions of Islam, with no value of their own.

Mohammed did accept the existence of all the Biblical prophets before him. However, he also said that all these prophets were Moslems. Abraham was a Moslem. In fact, Adam himself was the first Moslem. Isaac and Jacob and David and Solomon and Moses and Jesus were all Moslems. Therefore, world history is Islamic history because all the heroes of history were Moslems.

Mohammed explains that the Jews and Christians forged their books. Had they not been changed and forged, they would have been identical to the Koran. But because Christians and Jews do have some truth, Islam concedes that they cannot be completely destroyed by war at present. They can live under Islamic rule provided they keep to the rules that Islam promulgates for them.

What happens if Jews and Christians don’t want to live under the rules of Islam? Then Islam has to fight them and this fighting is called Jihad.