---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why I Left Jihad: The Root of Terrorism and the Return of Radical Islam. By Walid Shoebat. * The words below are only a summary of Shoebat's book and not necessarily the views of mine * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- p _, p35: Islamofacist idealogy is the same as the Nazi mind control idealogy. It takes over your mind with hatred. p34: Why did the Yahweh of the Bible love the Jews so much and Allah hate them so much? How could God be on the side of an evil people? Did the Quran have something to hide? p35: Jihad has two parts: If the Muslims have the upper hand, then it is violent action. If they do not, jihad is waged through financial and political means. They talk about peace to you, but support Hamas and Hezbollah in the back room. Peace, to them, is a sign of weakness of the nation (Quran 47:35,8:61). As soon as they have the upper hand, they switch into war mode. Jihad does not mean internal struggle: there are over 100 references in the Quran to Jihad and they are all with the sword, killing, forced conversion or enslavement. p36: The "liberal" Muslims tend to rewrite Islam rather than interpret it correctly. They are peaceful despite Islam, not because of it! They do stand up publically and deny the meaning of jihad according to Islam. p38: The Bible say "Love your enemies" (Luke 6:27-28), but there is no such verse in the Quran. Christians know that nothing can separate us from Christ, not trouble, nor persecution, nor sword (Romans 8:27-35). p40: Children are the targets in MUslim countries just as they were under Hitler. If you can plant the seeds of hate at a young age, they will be your soldiers. "We must liberate children from an evil and growing menace and stop the cycle." p41: Isreal must not give in. They must imprison terrorists, dismantle Hamas and remove the weapons. Under Arafat, the police were given assault rifles, which lead to disaster. Islam is not just a religion; it is also a government. Islam cannot coexists with others. "Peace starts when we make it illegal to follow the text and ultimately de-fang Islamism and jihad and their government..." p42: Islamic Democracy is an oxymoron, like capitalist communism. Walid's grandfather of the Grand Mufti had connections with the Nazis, and they were there the first night Hitler began killing the Jews on Nov 21, 1941. They even recruited troops for Hitler. The Muslims forcefully occupy what rightly belongs to the Jews (the Temple in Jerusalem) and it is unimaginable what would happen if the Jews instead took over Mecca and made it illegal for Muslims to set foo ton the land. p52-53: The famous Verse of the Sword (Q9:73 - crucify, kill those who corrupt the land) abrogates (cancels) 124 other verses of tolerance in the Quran. The verses of tolerance in the Quran have been cancelled. p56: The attitude of Muslims according to the Quran is to be masters over the Jews and Christians. Any hint of equality with them is to be repressed. p59-60: Shocking comparison of laws of Naziism and Islam. p63-65: More of Islam's ties to Naziism and their consipiration to kill the Jews, including the arabic version of Mein Kampf, with a foreward mourning the fall of Hitler. p66-67: They are deniers of the Holocaust. p67-69: Islam's "Golden Age" was not golden. Muslims killed many Jews and Christians during that time and any progress made in science, etc. was in spite of Islam, not because of it. p70-72: Jews were infact persecuted prior to 1948. p73: The Islamic Ottoman Empire conducted a gencide of the Christian population (Armenian Holocaust). More than 1.5 million Armenians were killed following 1915, and it is estimated that Jihad-style genocide is responsible for 10,000,000 deaths from 1915-2003. p73-...: Persecution of Jews by Muslims in the centuries prior to and after 1948 in Palestine, Morocco, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya, p95-96 "Peace," according to the definition of Islam, is to protect the nation of Islam from heathens and convert them to Islam. Many scholars of Islam and teir interpretations of jihad are listed. p96-97 Surahs (Chapters) or the Koran teaching how to deal with unbelievers - 47.4: Chop off their heads, 48.29: The followers of Allah are ruthless to unbelievers, but merciful to each other, 5.33-34: Crucify them, cut off arms & legs or banished, 8.12-13: Cut off their heads and the tips of their fingers, 8.60: Strike terror into them, 9.73: Make war with them and deal harshly, 17.16-17: Destroy the cities of the sinners (all non-Muslims). p98-100 The schools are terror factories. A daily prayer of an Egyptian Muslim school contains only curses to the non-Muslims, asking Allah to cause them to stumble and their property be given to the Muslims. A remark on the sad state of non-Muslims under Shari'a law is given. p100-104 Absurd charges of terrorist actions are attributed to the Jews, including attacks on other Jews! False media reportings of food tainted by posions by the Jews of Israel. Claims that the Jews stole the land of Israel from the Arabs and that archeological digs have not found anything Jewish. Claims that the Muslims are the true sons of Jacob and the Jews and thieves and liars. p108 Yasser Arafat says Abraham was not a Jew nor Hebrew but an Iraqi!! The Jew's temple ought to be in fact a Mosque. The Palestinian Authority teaches that Rachel's tomb in Bethlehem belongs to the Cushite servant of Muhammad! The Koran says the Israeli's originally inhabited towns west of Bethlehem and not in Jerusalem, which belongs to the Muslims. p109 The Palestinian Education Ministry supports textbooks such as "History of the Arabs and the World" which is full of lies against the Jews, calling them aggressive and racist Nazis (!) and Facists! p110 Muslim clergy in Jerusalem are very misinformed, prejudiced. They ask Allah to destroy America because it is run by Zionist monkey and pigs! p113 Muslim media tagging Zionists as racist, supremasist dictators and claiming Jews were being punished by Hilter for betraying their country! p115 A "Zionist American Congress"!! Ha! p116 In the 1970's, Walid's family watched and laughed at footage of the Holocaust, but firmly believed it was only a fabrication of the Jews in order to get monetary benefits and not a real persecution. p118 Interview on Palestinian Authority TV station, 1997: Moderator says Jews inflated the number of those killed under Hilter to 6 million. The real number was only 400,000. The author responds that the Jews have benefitted greatly materially, spiritually, politically and economically from talk about the Nazi killings. p119-121 Arafat the terrorist wanted only complete destruction of Israel. He didn't keep any of his "peace" promises; he blamed Hamas for terrorism, yet he supported them fully. He declared that Jerusalem belonged to Palestine and his people were prepared to sacrifice their children to have the Palestinian flag flowing over all the walls and churches. p124 Arafat even held a "Hamas week" to glorify the terrorists in 1997. p127 Who are the Palestinians? Ishmaelites or Philistines? It depends on the issue. If it is about who was there first, then they claim to be descendants of Canaanites. If it is about who deserves it, then they are Arabs. p128 Arafat claimed the Palestinians were both Canannite descendants and Arabs at the same time. But the Palestinians claim origin from Semitic Arabs. The Bible in Joel 3:4 mentions the biblical Philistines as a non-Semitic people who lived near the coast in Joppa, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Gaza. Calling the land of Israel today the land of the Philistines makes no sense. In 135 AD, Emperor Hadrian applied the name Palestine to Israel in order to erase Israel; he also set up pagan temples. p131 In discussion about the Jews of ancient Khazaria, he mentions a worldwide project using DNA evidence points to the Jews Aaronic priesthood as the Bible tells, which appears to predate the Ashkenazi and Sephardi branches of the Jeweish people. p131-135: Does the "land" belong to Ishmael and/or Isaac? Muslims say God promised the land to the seed of Abraham, which includes Ishmael, but in Gen 26:3-4, 35:12, Psalm 105:7-11, Jer 30:2-3, Isaiah 41:8,9, etc. it is clearly Israel/Isaac/Jacob only. p135-140: Examples of New Testament discussions of Israel; Jesus will come again to rule in Jerusalem. p140-146: Refute the claim that the fulfillment of "desolation and return" to Jerusalem has already happened after Israel's captivity. This event is a future event, when God will destroy the enemies of Jerusalem, as described in Zechariah 12:8-10. The one who "was pierced" will come again. p154-162: More absurd claims and beliefs that Israel does belong and always has belonged to Arab Palestine and was never inhabited by Jews in old times. Claims that the Palestinians originated before Abraham! Walid refutes these and shows that the known statistics from 1844 negates the claim that Muslims have always been the dominant presence. Palestine was empty, no richly inhabited as they claim. If the Arabs claim they have ruled that land for the last 40 centuries, they better find a new argument, because the evidence clearly shows that they haven't even ruled for 1 century. p162-168: The Jews did not steal the land of Israel, they got it in several ways: Legally from the British Mandate, purchased from the Arabs, who will willing to sell it, and it was acquired by unsuccessful attacks in Israel. In fact, the Jews went out of their way to buy swampy, uncultivated, uninhabited land that was not inhabited by Arabs. And they paid very fair prices for it too. pp169-173: Israel and the Jews get the blame no matter what happens. pp179-182: History of anti-Semitism, including some of Martin Luther's anti-Semitic remarks. pp183-184: Worldwide anti-Semitism manifests itself politically against Israel. The United Nations General Assembly had ordered a halt to work in Jewish parts of Jerusalem, while not prohibing Yasser Arafat from building Arab housing in Jerusalem. (More to come: Last update 1/6/07)