Ramadan is the Month of Jihad

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Another Ramadan is upon us, and the Islamic State has called upon Muslims to show their piety during this month by carrying out jihad attacks in the U.S., Europe and Russia. In a new video, Muslims are told to “wait and hide for them,” that is, non-Muslims, “in houses, corners, roads,” and kill them. This is reminiscent of the Qur’an’s exhortation to “kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush” (9:5), and constitutes yet another reminder that Ramadan is quintessentially the month of jihad.

A jihad group explained it back in 2012: “The month of Ramadan is a month of holy war and death for Allah. It is a month for fighting the enemies of Allah and God’s messenger, the Jews and their American facilitators.” Referring to a jihad attack that happened at that time, the message continued: “One of our groups aided by Allah managed to bomb a bus full of Jewish tourists, plunderers of holy lands, after careful tracking. The holy war is not confined to a particular arena and we shall fight the Jews and the Americans until they leave the land of Islam.”

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In contrast, President Trump issued a statement asserting that “the spirit of Ramadan strengthens awareness of our shared obligation to reject violence, to pursue peace, and to give to those in need who are suffering from poverty or conflict,” and claiming that recent jihad terror massacres in Britain and Egypt were “acts of depravity that are directly contrary to the spirit of Ramadan.”

So which is it? Are jihad attacks “acts of depravity that are directly contrary to the spirit of Ramadan,” or is Ramadan “a month of calamity everywhere for nonbelievers”?

Islam’s core beliefs make it clear that the latter statement is closer to the truth. During Ramadan, Muslims are exhorted to renew and deepen their devotion to Allah. Hence it is a time when they’re supposed to grow more generous and kind toward their fellow Muslims. However, the Qur’an says: “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are severe against disbelievers, and merciful among themselves” (48:29). If the Ramadan imperative is to become more devout, the Muslim who applies himself diligently to the Ramadan observance will simultaneously become more both merciful to his fellow Muslims and more severe against the unbelievers.

Murdering infidels thus doesn’t contradict the spirit of Ramadan; it embodies it. The Kavkaz Center, a website operated by Chechen jihadists, explained in a 2010 article that the idea of Ramadan as a time for warfare against infidels went back to Muhammad’s time: “The month of Ramadan in the life of the Prophet (pbuh) and the righteous ancestors was a month of forthcoming. The greatest battles during the lifetime of the Prophet (pbuh) occurred in this blessed month, the month of jihad, zeal and enthusiasm.”

Trump was, unfortunately, following the example of his two immediate predecessors when he claimed that jihad terror attacks were “acts of depravity that are directly contrary to the spirit of Ramadan,” and severely misleading the American people. Ironically, even in doing this he failed to satisfy Muslims, or anyone: the Washington Post ran a lengthy piece in which several Muslims explained why Trump’s statement was unsatisfactory to them. Shadi Hamid of the Qatar-funded Brookings Institution declared: “Trump has so rarely recognized that American Muslims even exist, but this offers apparent proof that he is aware of our existence. Great! Putting all that context aside, it’s offensive and pretty much terrible.”

Why? Because Trump had the temerity to mention jihad terrorism. Hamid continued: “We, as American Muslims, shouldn’t be defined solely in our relationship to bad things that we have nothing to do with. We’re also normal people who happen to be Muslim and to see us and our history in America so narrowly is plain out offensive.”

What is actually offensive is that Hamid would try in this way to absolve the Muslim community of any responsibility to root out jihad terrorist from its midst. There is certain to be more jihad terrorism during this Ramadan, and some of it may be committed by Muslims in the U.S. Hamid, if he cared about this, would be confronting honestly the teachings of Islam that make Ramadan the month of jihad, and working to reform them.

Meanwhile, it would be dangerous, suicidal folly for Infidels to pretend that Ramadan is not the month of jihad. And as our Ramadan willful blindness continues, more Infidels will die.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

 

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Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Left/Liberals have enabled the jihadis either due to their ignorance or because the political Leaders, media have been paid to shill for Islam.

Its like all rights and freedom are to be given to Muslims and
non-muslims do not have any rights as dhimmis ! And Left/liberal
pro-jihadi loons allow it !

Infidels do not even have right to protest against crimes committed by Muslims . If they dare try it they get harassed, jailed or killed http://bit.ly/2r6F3cp

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Elizabethmyoung
6 years ago
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jim
jim
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Rights are not given they are taken. Muslims are demanding priviliges ,like declaring their crimes against humanity to be not crimes.

Dr. Ron Polland
Dr. Ron Polland
6 years ago
Reply to  jim

That’s what he’s saying, albeit not in the most direct way possible.

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  jim

► The American invasion of Iraq was such a crime

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

► I’m a infidel and you can stick your Jew settlements up your åss

Dr. Ron Polland
Dr. Ron Polland
6 years ago

What are you talking about and whose side are you on? What do you mean by “Jew settlements?”

Did you mean to say, “Jew sentiments?”

This guy is on the right side of the conflict here by reaffirming how badly Muslims mistreat non-Muslims because of their Islamic ideology and supremacist mindset.

I think you misinterpreted what he wrote.

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago

► In Jew occupied territory I’m on the side of the indigenous population

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago

► I mean Israel is an apartheid regime

Dr. Ron Polland
Dr. Ron Polland
6 years ago

I remember hearing about Ramadan for the first time during the run-up to the 1st Gulf War to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s illegal occupation. I heard it again in reference to the invasion of Afghanistan.

Namely, Bush’s Arab and Muslim’s advisers were warning him to avoid attacking Iraqi and Afghan Muslims during the month of Ramadan. How ironic is it that Muslims pick Ramadan as the best time to launch attacks on non-Muslims while telling non-Muslims the exact opposite?

Taqiyya, anyone?

lostlegends
lostlegends
6 years ago

Jihadists are the Storm Troopers of the Left. Almost all the killed are other muslims.

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