[ April 25, 2024 ]
“Spoils of war.”
“Jihad Allowance”: Views of Work in the Middle East
by Nonie Darwish Gatestone, July 10, 2018:
Recently, the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, dismissed President Trump as just a “tradesman” who lacked the qualifications to handle political and international affairs. At face value, the criticism might sound similar to that of an opposition party alleging that Trump lacks political experience.
Story continues below advertisementComing from an Islamic leader, however, it reflects a much deeper meaning: on how differently the Islamic culture views the work ethic and the means of acquiring wealth.
Although there are many Muslims who work tirelessly and are immensely successful, Islamic culture in general has little respect for manual labor and even for business owners. People who engage in legitimate “trade” for a living are often viewed with scorn or as “having” to labor for a living.
Historically, Islamic society has given the highest respect and wealth not to the innovators or hardest workers; rather, is usually been bestowed on the ruling class, their families and associates. After the ruling class, the highest respect and wealth is given to the jihadist class, or military leadership class.
According to the Koran and the example of Muhammad, the spoils of war (acquired wealth through jihad) is to be given to the jihadists. Jihadists need to be kept busy against the outside world at all times to expand or maintain the power of Islam. Otherwise, the jihadist or military class might turn against the leadership and Islamic system itself. Congress recently pulled more than $300 million a year from the Palestinian Authority that the US was paying in a “pay to slay” arrangement that incentivized murder — a “jobs program”.Muhammad rewarded Muslim fighters who died with Paradise; these are the only people guaranteed admittance. Those who survived jihad were given wealth:
“Allah guarantees that He will admit the ‘mujahid’ in His cause into Paradise if he is killed, otherwise He will return him to his home safety with rewards and war booty” (Bukhari 4:52:46).
The example of Muhammad and his Muslim fighters rests in stark contrast to the example of the pre-Islamized Meccan merchants who rejected Muhammad, and to the Jews who lived in Medina, who engaged in trade and earned their living from hard labor.The contrast between the lifestyle of Muhammad and his fighters and that of the Jewish tribes probably alarmed the Jews — with good reason. Muhammad’s eyes were set on taking the power, wealth and control from the Jews and from the Arab leaders of Mecca — and he succeeded.
“Spoils of war” — also the name of a chapter in the Koran, Al-Anfāl, mostly about the Badr war — became the lure used to attract more and more fighters to the side of Islam against wealthy Jews and the merchants of Mecca.
Spoils of war or booty, or taking the wealth of Muhammad’s enemies after killing them became a big business. Anyone who was caught stealing booty was punished by Muhammad gave his fighters four-fifths of the spoils and one fifth was given to Muhammad and Allah. Anyone caught stealing booty was punished by Muhammad
Capturing wealth from others, rather than creating wealth, became an Islamic value, established as an honorable and holy legal right of Muslims. As Muhammad said in the hadith, “Booty has been made legal for me” (Bukhari 53:351).<
This has been, in general, the Muslim economic model, set by the example of Muhammad, for building wealth. The most prestigious and privileged position in society for any Muslim man is the position of the jihadist. Islam became an ever-expanding machine of conquest that could not stop — or else it would run out of money. It took as the spoils of conquest the wealth of many great civilizations including Persia, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Coptic Christian Egypt, and the Biblical lands in and around Jerusalem — demonstrating why manual labor and those who work in both farming and trade are looked down upon in Muslim culture as not putting jihad as number one to earn a living.
Today, as Muslims are escaping their vast, poverty-stricken Islamic territories in 54 Islamic nations for the greener lands of Europe and America, Westerners seem to think they are rescuing refugees. Many times they are, but other times this is just the latest version of a story that has been repeating itself for 1,400 years.Muslim clerics today are still advocating jihad for the acquisition of wealth. For example, the prominent Egyptian Sheikh, Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni, is still lecturing at Al Azhar University on how Muslims’ financial difficulties are due to the fact that they have abandoned jihad and the wealth and slaves that could be acquired from it.At least one Muslim leader — the Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi — has noticed the lack of a work ethic in Islamic society. He tried to recommend a solution to the lack of a work ethic in Muslim society, but he could not find one quote in the Quran regarding the subject except in doing jihad well. Referring to the Muslim world, he said: “We don’t work and if we work, we don’t do it professionally.We do not produce… and we import everything from the needle to missiles.” He gave the only Islamic reference he could find regarding proper work ethic:“Muhammad ordered us to excel in everything ‘if you kill, do it properly, and if you slaughter, do it properly…’ How come the Zionist gang has managed to be superior to us? They have become superior through knowledge and technology and work ethics.”The lack of a proper work ethic in Islamic culture is possibly a large cause behind the refugee movement and helps to explain why Muslims’ eyes are always focused on the outside, non-Muslim world, the greener pastures, for more and more to conquer or expand into.
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41 Comments
5 years ago
No wonder the Muslims love the left so much. They give them free everything, and they also enjoy playing victim games to mess with people all the time.
5 years ago
Reply to
Sky Angel
Oh they like money – YOUR – money!
Have you ever seen Muslims be charitable with THEIR money to a nonbeliever?
Ever?
You will NEVER see that.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Muslims LOVE those aiding in the destruction of their country. They are laughing all the way to the bank as they knock out little jihadis. They probably can’t believe their good fortune! The kafir can’t get enough of them, PAY for them and punish those that object to them as they become more outrageous. It’s maddening.
Between Africa and the middle east these are the DUMBEST people on the earth. Mix in an insane sadistic, often inbred people, religion and you have a disaster. The Muslims have no interest in working FOR the kafir. Everything will continue to “offend” them and they USE that to strip the country of their culture, religion and traditions. It is so terribly sad what is going on without a shot fired. Submission continues.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
they are the children from generation of cain born with no souls, not humans but children of satan who do the will of their father satan rape kill steal they have no morals or conscience as they have no souls(genesis 3;15)
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
it is happening in america we are in debt for providing for criminal illegals support
5 years ago
You would not BELIEVE how many UK Muslims have 2-3 wives and each wife with a mess of children. Officially he is only married to one and the others are ‘single mothers with dependents’ paid for in full by the British Taxpayer.
5 years ago
Reply to
poetcomic1
Agree. while Hungary keeps jihadis out and deports Left/liberal pro-jihadi Loons http://bit.ly/2gh6A72
Europe/USA denies christians/non-muslims entry and welcomes their murderers.
5 years ago
Reply to
poetcomic1
it’s happening world wide. five wives with each 2.3 kids, the “wives” have own housing commission home. free money to go to school benefits galore. of course west is the best I feel sorry for the honest people on the dole looking for work not the muscats
5 years ago
Reply to
nick
To get the gubmint to pay for your your wives and children, in the words of the Sinatra song “Nice work if you can get it….”
5 years ago
Reply to
poetcomic1
Muslims will claim female chain relations are sisters, aunts, moms but not multiple wives. It’s not uncommon for “single” women to have babies and be government supported so they fit right in. They exploit the breakdown of our culture through intact families and NO DAD present.
5 years ago
Man, Western Freemasonic Democracies are stupid!!! Don’t give these Mohammadans anything!
5 years ago
How many muslums are on welfare in the USA?
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Without Affirmative Action … one whole heck of a lot more than now.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Can you imagine having a MUSLIM as your doctor based on a government QUOTA? We can’t get rid of Obamacare soon enough to restore DOCTOR CHOICE! At least the mandate is gone but some STATES are reinstalling that to keep it going.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
There’s something about the odor of excrement, emanating from that BARE left hand … dripping in it … that just doesn’t seem to add to a physician’s bedside manner.
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
We have our own invasion going on here. Do you really believe only hisHispan are crossing our unsecured boarders? Forty six( up from forty two) percent of all illegals are on some form of welfare.
5 years ago
Why should they work when they can get free money from the infidels? That’s exactly how they feel! The question is how can Europe support all these people indefinitely with more on the way everyday?
5 years ago
typical women, leaching off the taxpayer.
5 years ago
Reply to
Scott
And the owners of these multiple slaves/wives, the mohammedan males, are working hard and paying taxes. Am I correct? I am willing to bet that the owners of these women would not even allow them to work. You apparently know nothing about the female hating cult of islam.
5 years ago
Reply to
Scott
LOL!
So why do you give males a pass in not support their kids? Are males just sperm donors? Males are as bad as the women. It takes TWO to make a baby. You sound very misogynist to me. Misogyny is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.
5 years ago
If you do the numbers it’s even more shocking. There’s over 4 million muslims in the UK, say 50% are on Welfare, if they get around $2k/mth, it works out to approx $50 billion/year, which is the same amount they spend on their entire defense budget or 2% of their GDP. They can’t afford to build more ships/carriers and now we know why.
Muslims are a massive drain on the UK economy. They could afford two militaries with that amount of money if they sent all the welfare-dependent Muslims back. Also by 2050, the Muslim population is set to triple to 13 million.
So good luck UK, you’ll probably go bankrupt just trying to support Muslims who don’t and will never work. Also 3 times as many Muslims means triple the rape epidemic and terrorist attacks.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rick Reynolds
Yes! The money goes to fund the INVADERS!
They do not spend the money on their defense.
5 years ago
This cannot be sustained, of course. Everybody living off the backs of the Middle Class. From the Queen, to the Lards and Dams, and now to the backward violent Moslem.
Everybody taking you for cheap.
5 years ago
Before I start, the picture at the top was taken in America, in UK, we spell “centre” the French way, a small point I know not detracting from the truth.
The quote from Qaradawi was never more true, it’s perfect.
The events chain is this, a successful raid by muslim brigands upon a town or caravan led to the seizure of the riches of others, repeated often enough, the “winning” side began to believe what Mo told them was true, they WERE the “special ones” so they started fathering too many children for their environment to support {a desert is like that} without MORE raiding {the wives were nagging about no nappies} so off they went again, further and further afield until they wen’t seen again for months if at all, some started new families away so the process was repeated.
Owing to their self belief that they were the chosen ones and “special”, as the report says, they didn’t fancy hard work in fields or groves so the wealth consumed was never replaced unless by theft , this has but one result,
total eventual impoverishment for those dependent and left behind, result starvation leading to their eventual migration. Did not millions of us witness such things during 2015 in Europe ?
Muslims are to wealth creation what locusts are to a farmers harvest – something of a disappointment.
It’s a strange quirk of human nature but true non the less that human beings are happiest when applying themselves to overcoming some adversity or other {this means grafting} and because even the faithful are born with a conscience, constantly ripping off others leads not to a sense of achievement but a sense of disappointment when the temporary “high” of theft {like constant shopping by the wife} evaporates. They end up feeling grumpy {what Grumpy thought about it is not recorded}.
It’s this trait displayed regularly by the victims of their own beliefs we see displayed in Judea and Samaria as well as Gaza and most other Islamic majority societies, they deny themselves, by being obedient to the mandate, the sense of satisfaction known only to those who take a handful of soil and water and work to get both to produce something that wasn’t there before. It’s that simple.
You can see this today outside any Cafe in Britain or France or anywhere in the west, they sit around, only males, putting the world to rights with their jowls while warming their chair seats and wearing thin their trousers.
For the western political elite, this of course is known as “cultural enrichment”, it’s easy for them to say this because it’s not them being “ripped off”, it’s us.
5 years ago
TRUDEAU will be PLEASED! He has conned CANADIANS into financing his VOTERS & they will all vote for his Liberal Marxists !
TRUDEAU has always been good with other peoples money until it runs out & then there are SCREAMS of RACIST, BIGOTS & ISLAMOPHOBE until more cash arrives & the TANTRUM PASSES LIKE WIND!!
5 years ago
Q: How do you starve a raghead to death?
A: Hide his food stamps under his work boots.
5 years ago
They have been living off the oil wealth for about a century, which was discovered and developed with Western enterprise and skill to start with, so they have never needed to develop economies like non Muslim countries did.
5 years ago
Hey U.K. deport Islam and instantly turn your economy around.
5 years ago
This is about the same percentage as with Hispanic invaders in Californica.
5 years ago
England, France, Germany, Sweden should hand their countries over to their mus lim countryman The white citizenry and kufars would then live in perpetual dimmitude. That is if they are allowed to live at all. The dummies will pay higher and higher taxes until the countries economic system dissolves. The taxes of course will be higher for the dhim mie , and perhaps no taxes for their mos lim countrymen. This will possibly decrease the number of unexplained crashes into the crowds, stabbing attacks and explosions at concerts. Of course there will be more head chopping, amputations and hangings but that’s muslim form of entertainment anyway . Kill 2 birds with one stone. Sorry bad analogy because I wouldn’t want to kill any birds and the mus lim already stone people for entertainment.
5 years ago
When you capitulate to islam, you are advancing Sharia law for everyone. This make Islam the winner.
5 years ago
Islam is a welfare state under Allah!
5 years ago
TO SOLVE AMERICAS PROBLEMS MAKE THIS CHOICE WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES, TO VOTE OUT THE ENTIRE LYING,CORRUPT, TREASONOUS DEMOCRAT PARTY COME NOV 2018, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTIONS IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT
5 years ago
The British are SO stupid! You would think that they could figure that out & boot those squatters out of there!
5 years ago
Imagine 2050 , the German government with its plummeting birthrates has announced it will be an Islamic state by then , sweden ,france ( with its wonderful “sensitive urban areas “) britain , canada many Us states. The poverty under Islam will be something to behold , and they will be countless “refugees ” flooding untainted non islamic lands. But its our fault so many muslims are unemployed here in the UK , the high unemployment must mean Islamaphobia is rife.
