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This use has also been criticized by influential Islamist Sayyid Qutb, who wrote:
The defeatists should fear Allah lest they distort this religion and cause it to become weak on the basis of the claim that it is a religion of peace. Yes, it is the religion of peace but in the sense of saving all of mankind from worshiping anything other than Allah and submitting all of mankind to the rule of Allah." [14]
Religion of Peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In other words, Islam will be at "peace" when the entire human race has submitted to Islam, or is dead.
ISIS doesn't even bother with word games:
On May 13, 2015, the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization released an audio message purporting to come from the mouth of the group's caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who asserted that Islam is not the religion of peace, but rather the religion of violence. If it is in fact Baghdadi speaking in the message, which was posted by the group's al-Furqan media outlet and shared by several ISIS-affiliated websites, it would mark the first time that the public has heard from Baghdadi in months, after it was reported that he was immobilized by a spinal injury resulting from shrapnel wounds from an airstrike. BBC reports that analysts believe that the voice in the audio message, entitled "March Forth Whether Light or Heavy," sounds like Baghdadi's but it's still hard to verify.
In the message, Baghdadi encouraged all Muslims to take up arms and fight in what he labeled "the war of all of Muslims:"
Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels. O Muslims, go to war everywhere. It is the duty of every Muslim.[16]
Now that it's out in the open that Islam is not a "religion of peace" has those words mean in the English language, we can expect that the problem is going to get much, much worse, before it gets better.
The defeatists should fear Allah lest they distort this religion and cause it to become weak on the basis of the claim that it is a religion of peace. Yes, it is the religion of peace but in the sense of saving all of mankind from worshiping anything other than Allah and submitting all of mankind to the rule of Allah." [14]
Religion of Peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In other words, Islam will be at "peace" when the entire human race has submitted to Islam, or is dead.
ISIS doesn't even bother with word games:
On May 13, 2015, the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization released an audio message purporting to come from the mouth of the group's caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who asserted that Islam is not the religion of peace, but rather the religion of violence. If it is in fact Baghdadi speaking in the message, which was posted by the group's al-Furqan media outlet and shared by several ISIS-affiliated websites, it would mark the first time that the public has heard from Baghdadi in months, after it was reported that he was immobilized by a spinal injury resulting from shrapnel wounds from an airstrike. BBC reports that analysts believe that the voice in the audio message, entitled "March Forth Whether Light or Heavy," sounds like Baghdadi's but it's still hard to verify.
In the message, Baghdadi encouraged all Muslims to take up arms and fight in what he labeled "the war of all of Muslims:"
Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels. O Muslims, go to war everywhere. It is the duty of every Muslim.[16]
Now that it's out in the open that Islam is not a "religion of peace" has those words mean in the English language, we can expect that the problem is going to get much, much worse, before it gets better.
