Islamism - 7

[G.Subramaniam]

What Drives Islam to be the Religion of War?

By: Daniel Greenfield



“He it is who has sent His Messenger (Mohammed) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam) to make it victorious over all religions even though the infidels may resist.” Koran 61:9



Why is Islam constantly a source of war, violence and discord? The problem, simply enough, is theological because to its followers the validity of Islam is directly connected to its physical supremacy. As followers of the purported “final revelation” to mankind, Muslims not only have the obligation to conquer and subjugate the rest of the world, their religion is only meaningful to the extent that they can carry on the work begun by Mohammed.



Since Islam derives meaning primarily from physical supremacy, war becomes an act of faith. To believe in Islam, is to have faith that it must and will conquer and subjugate the entire world. And to be a true Muslim, one must feel called to aid in that global conquest, whether it is by providing money and resources to the Jihadists or to be a Jihadist yourself. Because Islam is expressed in physical supremacy, violence against non-Muslims becomes the essence of religion and anything that suggests Islam is not absolutely superior touches on Islamic insecurities as blasphemy.



When Muslims explode into outbursts of violent rage over seemingly petty things like a cartoon or a teddy bear named Mohammed, it is because to them, any loss of face for Islam is the worst kind of blasphemy. Because Islam is a religion of physical supremacy, and anything that challenges that supremacy is a direct attack on their beliefs. What the Ten Commandments are for the Jew, or the resurrection of Jesus for the Christian – is the physical dominance of Islam to the Muslim. It is the basis and fulfillment of his faith.



Therefore by waging war on the infidels, by planting a minaret in one of their cities, by forcing non-Muslims into a submissive position – to the Muslim, this is an act that affirms the truth and power of Islam. By causing infidels to “lose face,” the Muslim fulfills the Koranic verse which promises that Allah had sent Mohammed to make Islam supreme over all religions. By contrast, when Islam “loses face,” an act of blasphemy has been committed, which can only be righted religiously by killing the non-Muslims, thereby forcing them to lose face and once again affirming the physical superiority of Islam.



This creates the cycle of violence that the media loves to harp on so much, but it is not the result of Western oppression – it is the result of Muslims feeling oppressed if they are not on top. When your belief system explicitly proclaims its wille zur macht, its Will to Power, the idea of multiculturalism and co-existence becomes a joke. To co-exist with non-Muslims is itself blasphemous for a Muslim, which proclaims “Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends” (Koran 5:51) and whose final command was to ethnically cleanse the Jews and Christians of the Arabian Peninsula. Islam does not co-exist, for its followers its truth can only be found in conquering non-Muslims.



Whereas most religions can accept being in the inferior position because of their fundamental faith in the spiritual rather than the material, Islam has little to it but the material. Even its paradise exists in the form of the sort of physical pleasures that its followers crave: fancy robes, exquisite banquets, golden couches, and of course that famed appeal to the dedicated Jihadist, “curvaceous virgins… and an overflowing cup” (Koran 78:33-34). Islamic Heaven is essentially a grossly exaggerated version of the kind of loot that Mohammed’s followers expected to find by following him in the first place – gold, jewels, silk, spices and young girls.