Abu Sunaynah Quotes
We are living in very difficult and painful times, filled with hardships, agonies, and calamities. Take a look at how the enemies of Islam have united against us. They are never this united except when they are conspiring against Islam and the Muslims. We must ask ourselves this: Why is it that they have the ability to inflict so much harm on us? … Why have they gathered against us to wipe us out?
As paranoid as this quotation may seem, there are large numbers of Muslims who are being taught that this is true. Saudi Arabia is paying for large numbers of Wahabi Muslim Clerics to travel the world and “unify” the Muslims of the world.
Abu Sunaynah, Saudi Arabian Moslem Cleric, Khutbah 2284
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In addition to the Muslim world during the Crusades losing control of the Holy City for the first time in 400 years, the Christians stabled their horses on the Al Axa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, two of Islam’s holiest places. In addition, the Crusaders, after taking the city, slaughtered most of the inhabitants—Muslims, Jews and even fellow Christians who were Eastern Orthodox—more than 30,000 in just a day or so. It was a reign of terror on a scale that even today, it is shocking to most. So where as to us the Crusades were an interesting of aberrant part of history, to many Muslims of the Middle East the thought or discussion of the Crusades is traumatic even today.
While not in the Koran, this attributed statement is the basis for the ban on non-Muslims going on a Hajj and going to the most holy Muslim places—Mecca, Mina, Muzdalifa, and Arafat as well as the anti-religious hostility to all religions but Islam which is present in some Muslim countries.
The “People of the Book” are the Jews and the Christians who believe in the Old Testament book of God which Muslims recognize. Others who would not accept Islam would be killed, but if Jews and Christians are submissive and fell so, they may pay a special additional tax, the Jizyah.
The Prince had given $20 million to American Universities to establish Islamic Studies programs however. The Muslim religion requires believers to proselytize and spread the faith, while Saudi and Islamic law prohibits any other faith from being public or promoted. It is illegal, for example, to even bring a Christian Bible into the Kingdom. During the Gulf War, American soldiers defending Saudi Arabia were not allowed to bring in their religious texts unless they were Muslims.
When the Turks defeated the Christians, the only explanation many Christians could conceive of was that God was on the side of the Turks.
6th Baron Byron. This is one the earliest references to the ultra-fundamentalist Wahhabi Islamic sect which dominated Saudi Arabia Islam in the late 20th and early 21st century and which inspired terrorism against the West and Israel. When Byron wrote this canto the sect was just a decade old and had already taken over Mecca by violence. Byron was prophetic.
Despite the fact that the statues were holy symbols to Buddhists, they were offensive to Muslims who say statues as “graven images” prohibited by the Koran. See Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil {608419} and Jamal’s other quotation {604665}.
The Christian Crusaders and the Muslim extremists through this day are not the only peoples who described atrocities as “Holy war.”
The so-called Second Crusade
In modern times there has been much criticism of the Muslim fundamentalists and the claim of the religious leadership that those who die in Holy War (Jihad) will immediately go to heaven. The concern is that this encourages terrorism and aggressive war. Yet, here we have virtually the same kind of “reward” for violence as issued by the Christians. See {611697} for another such example.
In some countries political candidates run on religious platforms to convert the part of the population that is not of their religion and turn the nation into a theocracy.
At the time of the writing she was an ex-queen. See {618099} for Frederick’s own view of the Greeks. The Crusades were going badly for the Christians at this point. The Greek Emperor had, after promising to be a part of the Christian alliance, made a separate treaty with Saladin and the Muslims, making him an outcast and sewing the seeds of the schism between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches. In a year, the Western Christians would sack Constantinople, and murder and plunder their fellow Eastern Christians. The two previous Greek Emperors were suspect from the Western point of view, but the treaty with Saladin “proved” what had been suspected about the Greeks who were now allied with the hated Muslims.
