G M Davis - House of War: Islams Jihad Against the World

HOUSE OF WAR

ISLAMS JIHAD AGAINST THE WORLD

G.M. DAVIS, PH.D.

HOUSE OF WAR

Copyright 2006, 2015 by G. M. Davis

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Davis, G. M.
House of war : Islams jihad against the world / G. M. Davis, producer of the documentary film Islam: What the West Needs to Know.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-938067-98-3 (pbk.)
1. Islam--Controversial literature. 2. Jihad. I. Title.
BP169.D38 2015
297.272--dc23

2015011971

For Z. with love.

And in memory of the countless victims of the religion of Muhammad, through the centuries and today.

FROM BAD TO WORSE APTLY SUMS up the course of events since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2006. Islamic violence continues to flare around the globe, in Islamic countries but also in the West where, a few weeks before these words were written, twelve French journalists and others were massacred in their Parisian offices by Muslim jihadists out to right a wrong when Charlie Hebdo satirized their Prophet. The murderers were, it is now plain, acting self-consciously on religious motives, perhaps recalling the killing of Kab bin Al-Ashraf, a poet in Medina who had ridiculed Muhammad while he preached there, or one of several others during the life of the Prophet whom he had killed for insulting Islam (see ). The gunmen, eventually hunted down and slain by French police, died as martyrs according to the dictates of their god, who promises paradise to those who fight in his cause and kill and are killed, a promise binding on him in truth (Koran 9:111).

Overseas in the Islamic world, the West, led by the United States, insists on pulling every cork from every bottle and releasing the genie of jihad that the quasi-secular dictatorships of Saddam Hussein, Mubarak, Ghaddafi, and Assad once kept a lid on. Boldly flying in the face of all possible reason and evidence, the United States has unleashed her stupendous military machine to bring the blessings of democracy to lands and peoples wholly unsuited for it. Predictably, the result has not been genuine democratization in those countries but rather Islamization with its concomitant suppression of civil liberties, persecution of religious minorities, economic chaos, and nurturing of jihadist terrorism. The bad quasi-secular dictatorships of the Middle East have been replaced with far worse Islamic democracies, which swing from tyranny to anarchy and back again, providing fertile ground for jihadist groups whose violent aspirations are in no way limited to their own societies. It is worth pointing out the consequences of American backing of Islamic movements in the past: it was the American-backed mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s and Bosnia in the 1990s that would go on to establish the international terrorist infrastructure that made 9/11 possible (see John Schindlers Unholy Terror).

But the problem is much more than just terrorism. This author, and a handful of others in the English language, have been trying to awaken the public and its leaders to the very unpleasant reality that Islam, one of the worlds great religions and boasting more than a billion adherents, comprises a fundamentally violent political ideology that poses an existential threat to Western societies. This is the sort of news that gets messengers shot, and that is what has happened figuratively sometimes literally to those who have tried to introduce the reality of the Islamic danger into mainstream discourse. Todays coiffured, airhead newsreaders are delighted to tell us with this-just-in gravitas about the latest Islamist terrorist atrocity but will not permit (or will not be permitted by the producer dictating in their ear) analysis of the origins of the ideology that would induce someone to so ruthlessly murder his fellow human beings. This author himself enjoyed fifteen seconds of fame when he declaimed on a major television news network that the origins of Islamic violence are to be found in the Koran and the life of Muhammad a statement that got his satellite feed cut while a roundtable of critics heaped scorn on his prejudicial ignorance.

It seems a permanent fixture of this world of ours that an optimistic lie is accepted far more readily than a sober truth. Nonetheless, we persist. Big things have small beginnings, and bringing Western Civilization about to face the Islamic danger will not be the work of one or a few. Indeed, it may not happen at all, but for those with the opportunity, great or small, to take a stand, it must be attempted.

IN ALL QUOTATIONS IN THIS BOOK, my additions are given in braces, { }. All other parenthetical punctuation ( ), [ ], < >, etc. are those of the original source or translator. I use the standard modern English spelling of Koran but include other renderings (Kuran, Quran, etc.) when those spellings appear in other sources. I have kept intact the somewhat awkward language and punctuation used by the translators of the Islamic texts lest I inadvertently alter their meaning. I have omitted accent marks in all translations from the Arabic because I find them cumbersome. References to the Koran, both my own and those of quoted sources, are given as the sura (chapter) followed by the verse (e.g., Sura 9:29).

This is not a work of original scholarship nor is it meant to be a general education on Islam. It is intended rather to provide an antidote to the uncritical acceptance of Islam as a religion that means no harm to our civil, social, and personal arrangements. The arguments and evidence advanced in this book rely heavily on authors who have been plowing this ground for years (including Andrew Bostom, Paul Fergosi, Ibn Warraq, Robert Spencer, Serge Trifkovic, and Bat Yeor), and I encourage the reader to consult their works.

I acknowledge here a few people who helped in the preparation of the original hardcover edition of this book. Robert Spencer was very kind in answering a number of factual questions. He as well as Serge Trifkovic, Gary Bauer, and the venerable Bill Buckley (RIP) were also kind enough to give the manuscript a look and provide their thoughts. Most of all, I need to thank Bryan Daly, my collaborator on the documentary, Islam: What the West Needs to Know, which was the primary inspiration for this book. Regarding the paperback edition, thanks to WorldNetDaily for their willingness to take on the project, and thanks especially to my wife for providing encouragement and valuable feedback. Others who wish to be anonymous shall remain so. They know who they are.