Occasionally we post reader comments on our articles. Here is an interesting response to Patrick King’s essay “The Muslim Manipulation”
The above essay appears to be positing that particular Arab and/or Muslim leaders are manipulating “dar al-Islam,” specifically in regards as to attitudes towards Israel; the Jews; and the West, for their own nefarious and apparently “hidden” purposes. The article also suggests that this “manipulation, extortion, and interpretation” did not begin until the 1940’s.
I would suggest that “Islamic fascism” and hatred of Jews and the West (or dar al-Harb, the House of War) began in earnest far before the Nazi rise to power.
Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab at-Tamimi, the founder of the fanatical intolerant cult that is today the official State religion of Saudia Arabia and much of the rest of the Sunni world, began preaching in 1744. The Muslim scholar from whom al-Wahhab derived much of his teachings of Jihad and radical intolerance was Taqi ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah, who died in 1328 after being imprisoned for his extreme puritanical, anti government, violent viewpoints.
The tribe of al-Saud (later to become the “House of Saud”) allied with Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab and twice tried to violently take over all of the Arabian peninsula, sacking and looting Mecca in the process, before being crushed by the Ottomans and the Egyptian Sultanate.
The third time the Saudis succeeded, in the late 1800’s, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of mostly Shia Arabs and finally overthrowing the Hashemites and annexing the Hijaz, which included both Mecca and Medina.
All through this time period the Wahhabists have preached hatred of “the other;” the West; the Jews; and, finally, of course Israel.
The Saudi Arabia has managed an uneasy truce with its own Wahhabist fanatics and has had, twice, to used the private army of Saudi bodyguards to crush Wahhabist rebellions. They now use their oil wealth to export the hatefilled Wahhabist philosophies to other countries around the globe, including the United States of America.
(In addition, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the British appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was preaching total hatred and annihilation of the Jews from 1921, which happens to coincide with the foundation of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, until his death. He incited hundreds of thousands of Arabs to murder Jews and he was responsible for the assassinations of hundreds of “moderate” Muslim leaders who were looking to accommodate both the British and the Jews.)
I would suggest that rather view the present day troubles as a deliberate manipulations by countries such as Syria or Egypt or even Saudi Arabia, that one should view the entire trend toward terrorist chaos and self destruction by the Arab and Islamic world as being akin to the Christian Reformation in Europe from the 1500’s through the 1700’s.
Just as the Christian world then beat itself to death, murdering millions; destroying entire economies of various countries; attacking and destroying vast swaths of countryside, cities and towns until all of Europe was totally spent, so has the Muslim world been involved in its Islamic Reformation since the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, with its attendant new integrations of the secular Republic of Turkey and the Muslim Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Were the entire West to submit to Islam, including Israel and the United States, it would not change a single terrorist or self-destructive act by individual Muslims or the Muslim world at large.
They are undergoing their Reformation.
Each tribe or country or sect or individual has a new “revelation” on how to to establish their Imaginary Caliphate and destroy dar al-Harb. And, dar al-Harb, the House of War, is all those, particularly Muslims, who do not believe in the same way as whatever particular group or individual believes.
This Reformational orgy of death and destruction will not stop until the Arab/Islamic world becomes physically and financially exhausted.
This is not a matter of “manipulation” and “suppression,” but one of intense belief in the “new way” of establishing the Great Caliphate. And, just as Christianity had a new, radical religious cult aborning every minute during the Reformation, so does Islam. And they are willing to murder a planet just to justify their particular beliefs….
