Read The Mohammed Code: Why a Desert Prophet Wants You Dead Online

Authors: Howard Bloom

Tags: #jihad, #mohammed, #marathon bombing, #Islam, #prophet, #911, #osama bin laden, #jewish history, #jihadism, #muhammad, #boston bombing, #Terrorism, #islamism, #World history, #muslim

The Mohammed Code: Why a Desert Prophet Wants You Dead (45 page)

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Donald R. Morris.
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Raymond C Kelly. The Nuer Conquest: The Structure and Development of an Expansionist System. Ann Arbor, MI. University ofMichigan Press, 1985: p. 236-238.

 

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"The maximal level of cattle per capital holdings that could be achieved was not sufficient to satisfy Nuer pastoral aspirations. ...There is, in short, no evidence that the analytically identifiable ensemble of interrelationships characteristic of the Nuer sociocultural system manifests internal regulatory properties conducive to the cessation of territorial expansion." Raymond C Kelly. The Nuer Conquest: The Structure and Development of an Expansionist System. Ann Arbor, MI. University ofMichigan Press, 1985: p. 236.

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Raymond C Kelly. The Nuer Conquest: The Structure and Development of an Expansionist System. Ann Arbor, MI. University of Michigan Press, 1985: p. 53.

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Richard Dawkins. The Selfish Gene. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

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Sahih Bukhari, Book #52, Hadith #50.
Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.searchtruth.com/searchHadith.php?keyword=world&book=&translator=1&search=1&search_word=all&start=30&records_display=10

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Wikipedia. Origin and Development of the Qur’an. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

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In fact, the Hadith may have been gathered from eyewitness accounts of Mohammed’s life committed to paper or to oral tradition over 100 years after Mohammed’s death. See: Eerik Dickinson.The Development of Early Sunnite Hadith Criticism: The Taqdima of Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi . Leiden, Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill: 2001: pp. vii-ix. "Muslim historians say that it was the caliph Uthman (the third caliph, or successor of Muhammad, who had formerly been Muhammad's secretary), who first urged Muslims both to write down the Qur'an in a fixed form, and to write down the hadith." Wikipedia. Hadith. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith
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for example, a Moslem cannot perform a prayer--one of the five communal prayers required per day--after "Defication, urination, or passing gas." B. Aisha Lemu. Islamic ‘aqidah and Fiqh: A Textbook of Islamic Belief and Jurisprudence. Skokie, IL: IQRA' International Education Foundation. p. 62. Islam has commandments about things as simple as defecation and urination, commandments based on the words and life of Mohammed. "But, Abdullah [b. 'Umar'] said : when I was on the roof of our house when I saw the prophet defecating while sitting on two clay bricks facing Jerusalem." Brannon M. Wheeler. Applying Canon in Islam: The Authorization and Maintenance of Interpretive Reasoning in Hanafi Scholarship. Albany: State University of New York, 1996: p. 54.

"Khadduri, in a footnote to his translation of this section, notes that Abu Da'ud [1:12] cites a report that Ibn 'Umar was seen urinating in the desert, sheltered by his camel, facing Makkah. Ibn 'Umar reports that the prophet allowed urination facing Makkah as long as there was a barrier between the person urinating and Makkah." The same rule applied to defecation. Brannon M. Wheeler. Applying Canon in Islam: The Authorization and Maintenance of Interpretive Reasoning in Hanafi Scholarship. Albany: State University of New York, 1996: pp. 53-54, 258. Yasin Dutton. Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur'an, the Muwatta' and the Madinan Amal. London: Curzon Press, 1999: p. 235.

 

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According to one source, Globalterroralert.com, Azzam Publications was "widely considered to be the premiere English-language mouthpiece for Al-Qaida." Evan Kohlmann. Dossier: Azzam Publications UK (Azzam.com, Qoqaz.net) and Mazen Mokhtar. Globalterroralert.com. http://www.globalterroralert.com/azzam-mokhtar.pdf

 

 

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Azzam Publications. Farewell Message from Azzam Publications.
November 20, 2001
IslamicAwakening.com--"Site dedicated to the blessed global Islamic Awakening"

Retrieved from the World Wide WebMay 05, 2004
www.as-sahwah.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=756

 

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Azzam Publications. Farewell Message from Azzam Publications.
November 20, 2001
IslamicAwakening.com--"Site dedicated to the blessed global Islamic Awakening"

Retrieved from the World Wide WebMay 05, 2004
www.as-sahwah.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=756
Here’s the full quote:

“There is no such thing as a 'moderate' or 'liberal' Muslim. If there was, in what category would be place the Prophet Muhammad (SAWS)? Would we say he is a moderate, a liberal, an extremist, a fanatic, a terrorist, a fundamentalist? He certainly would not be a moderate or liberal since he ordered 600 – 700 Jewish males to be beheaded in Madinah after the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayzah betrayed the Muslims and stabbed them in the back. He also fought in 27 battles for the sake of Allah. Are we now going to call him a terrorist as well? We ask Allah to give victory to those fighting for His Sake in the four corners of the Earth, to destroy their enemies and the hypocrites and to enable the Muslim Ummah to produce millions of martyrs as the price for victory in this Life and achieving Allah's Pleasure in the Next. Your brothers at Azzam Publications” 20November 2001IslamicAwakening.Com

 

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Here’s what one mainstream, high-profile Islamic websites says about following Mohammed’s example:

 

We are commanded by God to follow the example of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him):

 

You have a good example in God’s Messenger for whoever looks unto God and the Last Day, and remembers God oft. (Al-Ahzab 33: 21)

 

God’s Messenger is our leader. As we stand in prayer according to the way he prayed, we must also follow him in every walk of our life. Those who followed him in the first Islamic century were the real representatives of the true Islamic life. Concerning this period, God’s Messenger told us that Muslim armies would arrive at the gates of cities, where they would be asked, “Did anyone among you see the Prophet?” The answer would be affirmative, and, therefore, they would be granted victory. Those who succeeded them would also perform jihad and they would be asked, “Are there any people among you who saw those who had seen the Prophet?” They would reply, “Yes,” and the cities would be conquered by them. There would finally come the third generation, who would be asked, “Did anybody among you see those who had seen the followers of the Prophet’s Companions?” When this question, too, received an affirmative answer, the conquest would also be bestowed upon them (Al-Bukhari and Muslim).

 

Again, in another narration by Al-Bukhari and Muslim, God’s Messenger says concerning those three succeeding generations:

 


The best of you are those who live in my period, then those who succeed them, and then those who follow them.”

 

Those three generations strictly followed in the Prophet’s footsteps and, accordingly, were granted great victories… (Fethullah Gulen. The Prophets Were Examples. IslamOnline. August 3, 2005. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.islamonline.net/English/In_Depth/mohamed/1424/kharitah/article32.shtml)

 

IslamOnline, the source of this quote, is a mainstream, heavy-traffic Moslem website founded in 1997 by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. What’s mainstream and what is not in modern Islam is debatable. Qaradawi has been banned from the United States as a risk. (Owen Bowcott and Faisal al Yafai. Scholar with a streetwise touch defies expectations and stereotypes. London, England: Guardian Unlimited. July 9, 2004. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1257458,00.html) He has been called a hate monger for his anti-Semitic statements. (Anti-Defamation League.
Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Theologian of Terror. August 1, 2005.
Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.adl.org/main_Arab_World/al_Qaradawi_report_20041110.htm)

 

But the fact is that Qaradawi is a mainstream media personality in the Islamic world. He appears weekly on al Jazeera television, Islam’s flagship satellite TV station. His show is in one of the most-watched categories of media in the Moslem world...shows that take questions from callers, then answer them by going back through the Qur’an, the Hadith, the Sunnah, and the Fiqh to give the closest approximation possible to the answer Mohammed would have given or to the example in Mohammed’s own life that the caller should emulate. Al-Qaradawi’s program is called Al-Shariaa wa Al-Haya (Islamic Law and Life). In the words of the Wikipedia, “Among Muslims, Qaradawi is considered a mainstream moderate conservative offering balanced opinions”. (Wikipedia. Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_al-Qaradawi
.) More important, the Islamic website Positive Images says that Qaradawi

 

is perceived by many as the symbol of thought-provoking, forward-thinking and moderate Islamic scholarship, and has gained a reputation as a messenger promoting dialogue within the Muslim community and with other faiths

 

(Positive Images. Has Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi Been Wronged? Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.positive-images.org.uk/articles/qaradawi.html
)

 

To get your own sense of Qaradawi and of what is or is not mainstream in modern Islam, see: Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Al-Qaradawi full transcript, BBC News. July 8, 2004. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/3875119.stm

 

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