NOTE: THIS PASSWORD-PROTECTED PRIVATE DOCUMENT SHOULD NOT BE POSTED PUBLICLY IN ANY FROM AS IT HAS TOO MANY EXCERPTS FROM ONE COPYRIGHTED TEXT WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD READ IN ITS ENTIRETY: The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram by Harold Bloom Reading the entire text of this seminal book is necessary to understand the Bloom’s sociobiological insights and thesis about the “founder effect” and many other brilliant insights. I have collected these excerpts to get a few friends to read Bloom’s book and to quickly disabuse any ignorant notions that Islam is a “religion of peace,” or that the term, “Islamiphobia” is anything other than a grotesque example of Orwellian Doublespeak. Also, do not make the mistake of thinking that the strength of Bloom’s case against Islam is because he is a believer or apologist for any other religion. He isn’t. As Bloom puts it, THE HOLY BOOKS OF ISLAM, the Qur’an and the Hadith, are not the only religious founding volumes that revel in violence. Killing is at the core of the Jewish and Christian Old Testament. It is at the heart of the Hindu Vedas. And it is at the core of the founding books of Western civilization, The Iliad and The Odyssey. But modern Hindus, Christians, and Jews have rejected… or forgotten… the genocide and mass murder preached in their holy books. What we call fundamentalist Islam, militant Islam, Jihadism, extremist Islam, Islamism, or Islamofascism has not. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 123). Feral House. Kindle Edition. You should also not make the mistake of thinking that Bloom is a right-wing neocon, etc. He isn’t. He is a classic LIBERAL. It is complete hypocrisy to call yourself a liberal and not be vehemently opposed to Islamic ideology and much of its behavior. Also, this book is not based on opinions but exhaustive research with thousands of footnotes and endnotes. The last 120 pages or so of the book consist of nearly two-thousand endnotes. If there is any flaw in this book, it is one of relative omission. The treatment of women under Islam is the world’s worst human rights catastrophe on the planet and there is nothing that is even remotely close to it’s magnitude. For an introduction to this vast and appalling subject please read Jihad Against the Feminine http://zaporacle.com/2011/04/27/jihad-against-the-feminine/an article I asked my friend, Sean Moffitt, to write so I could post on Zap Oracle. For several years I worked with Sean on a non-profit he founded, The Women’s Assistance Fund, that raised money for Islamic women’s NGOs devoted to helping women victimized by “stove burnings,” etc. It was working for this non-profit that I became educated about the extent of evils perpetrated under the name of Islam (as well as by following its correctly interpreted holy scriptures, its Prophet and renown Imams and was daily confronted---usually while doing door-to-door education and fundraising for the WAF, with the extreme blindness and ignorance of educated liberal folks about the nature of Islam. But even before I teamed up with Sean’s non-profit, I was shocked about the ignorance most people had about Middle Eastern politics and wrote my three-part series, Projection the Enemy of Peace and Justice, http://zaporacle.com/2011/02/08/projection-the-enemy-of-peace-and-justice-part-i/ which includes a long dialogue I had with a Suffi Islamic Imam whom I met through our mutual friend, the artist Alex Grey. In a very recent article I disclosed my personal history as a victim of Islamic violence: http://zaporacle.com/2019/04/09/hey-woke-folk-you-may-not-be-as-awake-as-you-think/ Be forewarned, the following contains disturbing material and is the equivalent of taking a red pill that reveals just how dark the Islamic matrix actually is. If you are strong enough to take it, it is the moral obligation of an informed world citizen to confront the long skull shadows of Islamic history, the virulent harm it is causing in the present, and its potential to create future catastrophes. The Qur’an says about unbelievers, “capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush.” 48 The Verse of the Sword, Chapter 9, verse 5, the Mohsin Khan translation. Quranic Arabic Corpus, corpus.quran.com/ translation.jsp? chapter = 9& verse = 5 1-3-2016 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 14). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Said Muhammad, “Whoever of the Jews falls into your hands, kill him.” 135 And, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’” 136 Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir ibn Yazid ibn Kathir al-Tabari, The History of al-Tabari: English translation of “at Tareekh al-Tabari,” trans. M.V. McDonald, Albany: State University of New York Press, Volume VII, p. 97. 136. Sahih Bukhari. Book 52, Hadith 176– 177. Translated by M. Muhsin Khan. SearchTruth.com. “Search Truth is a non-profit organization aimed at utilizing the latest technologies available in order to spread the Word of Allah and the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) to as large an audience as possible.” www.searchtruth.com/ searchHadith.php? keyword = There + is + a + Jew + hiding + behind + me& translator = 1& search = 1& book =& start = 0& records_display = 10& search_word = exact Sahih Bukhari. Book 52, Hadith 176– 177. Translated by M. Muhsin Khan. SearchTruth.com. “Search Truth is a non-profit organization aimed at utilizing the latest technologies available in order to spread the Word of Allah and the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) to as large an audience as possible.” www.searchtruth.com/ searchHadith.php? keyword = There + is + a + Jew + hiding + behind + me& translator = 1& search = 1& book =& start = 0& records_display = 10& search_word = exact Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 304). Feral House. Kindle Edition. There are fewer Jews on the planet than the inhabitants of just one Muslim city, Cairo. 159 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 27). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Muslims had pieced together the biggest empire in world history— 11 times the size of the conquests of Alexander the Great, five times the size of the Roman Empire, and seven times the size of the United States. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 32). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Muhammad said that “chairs made of pearl are arranged for the martyrs and the maidens with big lustrous eyes will get down from their upstairs rooms… Which are made of green emerald and red ruby.” 518 These “large-eyed maidens” 519 will be more delicious than anything you’ve ever seen on Earth. 520 They will be “beautiful,” 521” “full-breasted,” 522 “eternally young,” with “wide and beautiful/ lovely eyes” 523 and “eyes like pearls.” 524 Yet they will look at you with “modest gazes.” 525 In fact, they will look only at you and no other man. Or, as the Muslim website Islam The True Religion of One God puts it, quoting from holy scriptures: The Houris (hoors/ hoor al-Ayn) have variously been described as being “chaste females,” “restraining their glances,” “modest gaze,” “wide and beautiful/ lovely eyes,” “like pearls,” “untouched / with hymen unbroken by sexual intercourse,” “virgins,” “non-menstruating/ urinating/ defecating and child-free,” “voluptuous/ full-breasted,” “with large, round breasts which are not inclined to hang,” “companions of equal age”… “pure,” “beautiful,” “white,” “revirginating,” [and of] “splendid beauty.” 526 What’s more, these heavenly girls will be “hairless except the eyebrows and the head” 527 and “so beautiful, pure and transparent [that] the marrow of the bones of their legs will be seen through the bones and the flesh.” 528 Then there’s the number of girls you’ll receive. The precise total has been controversial, but the imam of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, Usaamah Khayyaat, reassures you that you “will have seventy-two Women of Paradise.” 529 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 90). Feral House. Kindle Edition. It was a key meme that militant Muslims would use for the next 1,400 years. God gives money, goods, and sex…. to those who are willing to kill in the name of Allah. God delivers the goods to those who make war. He delivers the profit of plunder to those who murder on his behalf. As the Qur’an puts it, “with Allah are profits and spoils abundant.” 551 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 94). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Muhammad….(told) his followers that the Jews were “a people without understanding … transformed into apes and swine… racing each other in sin and rancor…. Evil indeed are their works.” 579 The Prophet added that, in fact, Islam’s very ability to affect history would depend on a slaughter of Hebrews. “The Hour will not be established,” he said, “until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’” 580 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 96-97). Feral House. Kindle Edition. [According to Muhammad’s eight-century biographer Ibn Ishaq (compiler of the sacred biography, Life of the Messenger of God)] Muhammed attacked a Jewish Village of the Banu Quraiza---a group of leather craftsmen. “The Messenger approached the Jews and said, ‘You brothers of monkeys, has God disgraced you and brought his vengeance upon you?’ They replied, ‘Oh …[ Muhammad], you are not a barbarous person.’” 593 Muhammad did his best to prove the Jews wrong. He opened a 25-day siege594 of the Banu Quraiza’s village. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 97). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Says Ibn Ishaq, “God cast terror into their hearts. …They felt sure that the apostle would not leave them until he had made an end of them.” 595 And they would prove to be right. After a night in which the women and children wept596 from dusk until daylight, the Jews decided to “surrender to the apostle’s judgement” 597 and threw themselves on Muhammad’s mercy. According to one Islamic biographer, Muhammad Haykal, Muhammad had concluded before the war even began that “The Banu Qurayzah… must be completely destroyed.” 601 The result was what Ibn Ishaq calls a “massacre.” 602 Explains the eighth-century biographer: “They [the Jews of the Banu Quraiza] surrendered, and the apostle confined them in Medina…. Then the apostle went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for them and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches. …There were 600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900. (Muhammad did not do all the beheading himself:) “He sat down,” says al-Tabari, “and Ali and al-Zubayr began cutting off their heads in his presence.” 604 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 98). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Then, says Ibn Ishaq, …Muhammad “was a very sea of generosity to us.” 606 “The Prophet divided the wealth, wives, and children of the Banu Qurayza [Jews] among the Muslims.” 607 Boasted one of the Muslim warriors who partook of the spoils: War has left to us The best gift of our bounteous Lord; High white forts and resting places for camels where Palms are black and milk is plentiful. …And horses swift as wolves… Now guarding the tribesman’s cattle, Now slaying the enemy and returning with the spoil 608 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 100). Feral House. Kindle Edition. THE TALE OF THE VICTORY OVER the Banu Qurayza told by the Hadith and by the Muslim biographers rapidly turns sexual: “The Messenger of God selected for himself from” the women of the slaughtered Jews a choice beauty, 612 “Rayhanah… and she remained his concubine” for the rest of his life. 613 The rest of the captured women and children were given out as slaves to the others who had “fought in the way of Allah.” This was one of many victories in which Allah saved his best sex prizes for Muhammad, 614 a man with strong carnal appetites. Muhammad coupled with women of all ages, but the holy books of Islam, the Hadith, explain that he had a special “liking for the virgins and for fondling them” 615 and for “a young girl so that you might play with her and she with you.” 616 Allah was extraordinarily open-handed in the sexual gifts he showered on Muhammad, O prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee; and daughters of thy paternal uncles and aunts and daughters of thy maternal uncles and aunts who migrated (from Mecca) with thee; and any believing woman who dedicates her soul to the Prophet if the Prophet wishes to wed her this only for thee and not for the Believers (at large). 617 Note the phrase “those whom thy right hand possesses.” Possessing “captives” with the “right hand” is a code-phrase for rape or sex by any means possible. 618 Since every child begotten by sex imposed on a sexual plaything, a “slave girl,” must be raised as a Muslim, this form of sexual abuse was considered a legitimate way to spread the truth of Allah. 619 As modern Islamic historian Ali Mazrui puts it, Islam’s “culture of procreation…[ is] a strategy for ‘multiplying in the name of Allah.’ Procreation itself,” he says, “can be counted as a form of jihad.” 620 Adds Mazrui, “The Muslim ummah (global community of Muslims) is allowed to expand by divine intervention and biological impregnation.” 621 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 101-102). Feral House. Kindle Edition. And that kind of institutionalized rape would ripple down the paths of history. In his May 2015 videotape, Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, a group that, like ISIS, has murdered husbands, fathers, and brothers and taken the dead men’s women as sex slaves by the thousands, boasted: I will marry out a female at 12; I will do same for a nine-year-old girl like it was done on my mother Aisha and wife of Prophet In this, Shekau referred to the example of Muhammad, who became engaged to his favorite wife, Aisha, when she was six. However, Muhammad waited patiently and did not consummate the marriage until Aisha was nine. 694 But that’s not the point. Back to what else Shekau learned from Muhammad’s example of how to treat women taken in battle. I am the one that captured your girls and I will sell them in the market. Yes, I will sell the girls…people, I am selling the girls like Allah said until we soak the ground of Nigeria with infidels blood…. There is slavery in Islam, don’t be deceive about United Nations [human rights]…. Are daughters of slaves not slaves? It is Quran that said so, There are slaves in Islam, you should know this, Prophet Muhammed took slaves himself during Badr war. 695 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 110-111). Feral House. Kindle Edition. What inspires these disturbing words? Among other things, the sexual enslavement— the forced “marriage”— of the queen of the Khaibar Jews, Safiya. One of the prophet’s Muslim chroniclers, former Egyptian Minister of Education Muhammad Haykal, explains proudly that in raping Safiya, Muhammad followed “the example of the great conquerors who married the daughters and wives of the kings whom they had conquered.” 697 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 111). Feral House. Kindle Edition. A conqueror is not a normal role model for the sort of prophet we’re accustomed to. In fact, prophets like Buddha698 and Jesus699 loathed war. But the words “conquer” and “conquest” appear 95 times in just one of Islam’s holy books, one of the Hadith, the compilations of eyewitness accounts of Muhammad’s life. 700 By contrast, the words “conquer” and “conqueror” don’t show up in another bloody and genocidal book, the Old Testament, at all. 701 Muhammad’s model of war and conquest would soon become very normal for those following in the Prophet’s footsteps. One other thing would become normal: The conviction that, as Mohammad Haykal— who was a former high-level Egyptian politician and mainstream newspaper editor702— puts it, “there could be no peace with the Jews as long as they were not thoroughly destroyed.” 703 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 111-112). Feral House. Kindle Edition. “You must become so notorious for bad things that when you come into an area people will tremble in their sandals. Anyone can do beatings and starve people. I want your unit to find new ways of torture so terrible that the screams will frighten even crows from their nests and if the person survives he will never again have a night’s sleep.” —Hafiz Sadiqulla Hassani, reporting on the instructions he allegedly received from his former boss, the commandant of Afghanistan’s Secret Police under the Taliban, 2001 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 113). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Muhammad insured subservience by using a conformity-enforcer and enemy-crumbler called terror. Terror, in fact, was a weapon Muhammad wielded with delight. He used the word over and over again: I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand. 731 I have been helped by terror (in the hearts of enemies): spoils [the plunder looted from enemies in raids or in war] have been made lawful to me: the earth has been made for me clean and a place of worship; I have been sent to all mankind and the line of prophets is closed with me. 732 Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers733 … Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): “I am with you: give firmness to the believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.” 734 … Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power including steeds of war to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies of Allah. 735 … ye are stronger (than they) because of the terror in their hearts (sent) by Allah. 736 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 118-119). Feral House. Kindle Edition. I was sent with the sword…. My sustenance has been made below the shadow of my spear. Humiliation and abasement have been laid upon the one who opposes my command. —Muhammad755 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 124). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Says the Qur’an, “Say to those who reject Faith: ‘Soon will ye be vanquished and gathered together to hell an evil bed indeed (to lie on)!’” 782 The Qur’an adds that Allah gives his armies “permission… to annihilate [their] enemy.” 783 “How many towns,” says the Qur’an, “have We destroyed (for their sins)?” 784 Or, as the 13th-century Islamic scholar Imam Ibn Taymiyyah785 would someday sum it up, “whoever has heard the summons of the Messenger of God… and has not responded to it, must be fought.” 786 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 128). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Any nonreligious [i.e. non-Islamic] power, whatever form or shape, is necessarily an atheistic power, the tool of Satan; it is part of our duty to stand in its path and to struggle against its effects. Such Satanic power can engender nothing but corruption on earth, the supreme evil which must be pitilessly fought and rooted out. To achieve that end, we have no recourse other than to overthrow all governments that do not rest on pure Islamic principles, and are thus corrupt and corrupting, and to tear down the traitorous, rotten, unjust, and tyrannical administrative systems that serve them. —Ayatollah Khomeini, the founding father of today’s Islamic Republic of Iran788 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 129). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Muhammad inflicted mass murder. He perpetrated what we would call war crimes— genocide or ethnic cleansing— on four groups of Jews: the Banu Qaynuqa, the Banu Nadir, the Banu Quraiza and the Jews of Khaibar. He used ethnic expulsion, genocide and torture for a reason. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 130). Feral House. Kindle Edition. …according to one of modern Islam’s most influential interpreters, Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group with enormous clout in the Middle East, in Europe, 824 and in America, 825 “All Muslims must make jihad. Jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded.” 826 In Al-Banna’s opinion, Allah demands that even the most frightened, “those who are scared to the utmost degree to plunge into battle and to face death” turn themselves around and “unflinchingly and bravely,” see that they must “welcome death, and that if they die in jihad, they will receive the most magnificent recompense for their lives.” 827 To prove that he is correctly channeling Muhammad— and the God who spoke through Muhammad— Al-Banna quotes Muhammad’s words, “concerning warfare against the treacherous polytheists: ‘Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them.’” 828 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 136). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Says the Prophet in the Qur’an, “slay the pagans wherever ye find them and seize them beleaguer them and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war).” 830 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 136). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Says the Qur’an, “those who strive and fight hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward.” 834 Muhammad . . . said, “It is not for any prophet to have captives until he hath made slaughter in the land.” 836 Another translation puts it even more chillingly: “It is not for a prophet to have captives [of war] until he inflicts a massacre.” 837 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 136-137). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Is Islam a peaceful religion? Said Muhammad, “Let it be known that Paradise lies in the shadows of the swords.” 839 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 137). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Though Islamic literature occasionally refers to Muhammad as a “Prophet of Peace,” 845 he was anything but. Muhammad called himself by many names. One of those was “nabiyyu ‘l-malhamah,” “the Prophet of War.” 846, 847 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 138). Feral House. Kindle Edition. In 624 A.D., 852 Allah told Muhammad that he and his followers had permission to wage Jihad853— to Crusade, to make Holy War. 854 Muhammad said that terror, killing, 855 and trickery856 would be Jihad’s three basic tools. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 138). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Or, as the fifth edition of ISIS’ gorgeously art-directed magazine Dābiq, the November 21, 2014, issue, put the legacy that ISIS felt Muhammad had left to them: “The shade of this blessed [ISIS] flag will expand until it covers all eastern and western extents of the Earth, filling the world with the truth and justice of Islam.” 861 Then Dābiq quotes a phrase from the Hadith that you’ve seen before, “Indeed, Allah gathered the Earth for me, and thus I saw its eastern and western extents, and indeed the reign of my Ummah will reach what was gathered for me from the Earth.” 862 As a leader of Hezbollah said as long ago as 1986, “Don’t believe that we want an Islamic republic in Lebanon. ... What Hezbollah wants is a world Islamic republic.” 863 Thanks to Muhammad’s example, Islam became and remains the most successful imperialist enterprise in the modern world. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 139). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Within 110 years of Muhammad’s death, Islam, the first modern religion created by a holy-war-maker and political dictator with global ambitions, had taken a territory whose extent you know— the size of seven United States and of five Roman Empires. Yes, five Roman Empires!!! Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 144). Feral House. Kindle Edition. It was the Islamic empire that held the upper hand in the struggle between East and West for over 1,100 years. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Christianity counterattacked in the 12th century with the Crusades. The Crusades were imitations of an Islamic invention, Holy War, Jihad. They came only after Europe had been pounded and surrounded for 384 years by the forces of jihad. And they were a miserable failure. The Crusaders’ battles were over a postage-stamp-sized piece of territory, primarily the land where Christ had lived and preached— land Christ was able to reach on foot. The traditional Jewish land of Israel. And the Crusaders were initially greeted with enthusiasm by many of the region’s Islamic rulers, who had divided the Middle East into tiny Muslim principalities, then gone to war with each other. To some of these petty sultans, princes, atabegs, 914 and emirs, the foreign invaders seemed like superb allies with whose help they could crush a rival or two. 915 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 146). Feral House. Kindle Edition. …..according to historian Amin Maalouf, the author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, 918 modern Arabs tend to see today’s world events as a continuation of the Crusades. And so do many of us. Frankly, we are blind to the blunt facts of history. We forget that for seven hundred years after the fall of the Crusader states, Islamic forces returned to the attack, crusading against and capturing Greece, parts of Italy, and chunks of Eastern Europe, raiding towns in Sicily, the Italian coasts, Cornwall, Ireland, England, 919 France, Brittany, Ile de Groix, the Biscay coast, Portugal, and Spain. We forget that in 1625 the naval forces of the Islamic Jihad established a base on the island of Lundy off the coast of England to support its raids on towns in Britain. 920 We forget that seaborne Muslim Crusaders took more than a million Europeans as slaves. 921 We forget that these Muslim Holy Sailors followed the principles of jihad established by Muhammad in his land-based military campaigns. The Islamic sea-warriors seized the citizens of entire villages as slaves and took the goods of these captives as loot, just as the Qur’an’s chapter eight, “The Spoils of War, The Booty,” 922 says they should. We forget that in the two centuries straddled by Shakespeare’s life (1564– 1616), the 1500s and 1600s, the Muslims were advancing relentlessly on Europe. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 147-148). Feral House. Kindle Edition. As 17th-century English historian Richard Knolles wrote in his 1603 Generall Historie of the Turkes, the Muslim Turks were “the terror of Europe” 931 and “the greatest terror of the World.” 932 Europe was seized by an overwhelming anxiety, a Türkenfurcht, 933 a “dread of the Turks,” 934 a fear so overpowering that Martin Luther wrote three entire works on the topic . . . Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 148). Feral House. Kindle Edition. We forget that for 1,094 years— from 711 A.D. 943 to 1805 A.D. 944— much of the Mediterranean was an “Islamic Lake,” 945 a private sea that Christians sailed at their peril. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 148). Feral House. Kindle Edition. We forget that back on land Muhammad’s militant followers were just as successful. We repress the brutal fact that until 1826 the rulers of the Islamic empire forced Christian parents in Albania, Serbia, Greece, and Hungary to give up their male children to Muslim overlords, slave masters who brought up these ten-year-olds on the Qur’an, killed the boys who would not accept Islam, then turned the remainder into crack Muslim soldiers known as Janissaries. 950 We forget what Islamic historian Dr. Mohsin Farooqi makes plain when he reminds his fellow Muslims that from roughly 1530 to 1780, in his opinion, “Europe [was] under Muslim Rule”— the rule of what Farooqi calls with great pride a reign of “terror of Muslim invaders.” 951 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 149). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Muslim armies seized and held the birthplace of Zoroastrianism— Iran. And it wiped Iran’s Zoroastianism out root and branch. As we’ve seen, militant Islam grabbed the birthplace of Hinduism and Buddhism, India. Militant Islam also bagged the South Caucasus, 957 Asia’s Afghanistan, Pakistan, Dagestan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Chechnya, Kyrgistan, and Uzbekistan. Militant Islam invaded China’s Xinjiang Province and seduced or seized most of the 19,185 Pacific Rim islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, Sumatra, Aceh, Brunei, and parts of the Philippines. Modern Western imperialism is a blip by comparison. Western civilization is extraordinary at expanding the powers of the individual with computers, smartphones, GPS, Google, YouTube, and Facebook. But outside of the Americas, it’s been a failure as a top predator. Most of the heavy-handed European and American imperialism in the Middle East, the “oppression at the hands of an expansive imperial power” 958 that’s so resented by today’s Arabs began less than a century ago, after the First World War. Syria was only under Western control for 21 years, and Egypt for 77.959 On the other side of the scales, southern Spain remained under the Muslim yoke over ten times as long, for 781 years. Greece— a Christian land that had been the home of Plato and Aristotle— was under Muslim dominion for 381 years. Jerusalem, the capital of the Jews and the major Christian site of pilgrimage, was under Muslim occupation for a staggering 1,241 years. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 150). Feral House. Kindle Edition. The result has been the longest world war in history— a nearly 1,400-year-long planetary struggle that subsides for a century or two, then flares up again on a frontline 17,000 miles wide— from the Philippines, Thailand, Kashmir, India, China, Chechnya, Dagestan, Bosnia, and Kenya, to South Africa, Nigeria, the Sudan, Algeria, Israel, Paris, London, Madrid, Trinidad, Amsterdam, Washington, and New York. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 151). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Long ago, medieval Muslim scholars also divided the world into two zones, Dar el Islam (the abode of Islam) and Dar el Harb (the abode of war). 962 The abode of Islam was the Arab homeland and the conquered territory whose spirit had been broken and whose inhabitants had submitted to life under the yoke of Islam. The abode of war was the land of the unbeliever, the land of those who had not yet been terrified, overwhelmed, beaten, and converted to utter submission, to the state described by the literal meaning of the Arabic word “Islam.” These two territorial spheres, explained the Muslim scholars, are in a state of perpetual war. 963 The very Long ago, medieval Muslim scholars also divided the world into two zones, Dar el Islam (the abode of Islam) and Dar el Harb (the abode of war). 962 The abode of Islam was the Arab homeland and the conquered territory whose spirit had been broken and whose inhabitants had submitted to life under the yoke of Islam. The abode of war was the land of the unbeliever, the land of those who had not yet been terrified, overwhelmed, beaten, and converted to utter submission, to the state described by the literal meaning of the Arabic word “Islam.” These two territorial spheres, explained the Muslim scholars, are in a state of perpetual war. 963 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 151). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Maulana A.S. Muhammad Abdul Hai was an internationally respected Qur’anic interpreter of the mid-20th century who traced his family’s roots straight back to Muhammad’s best friend and successor, caliph Abu Bakr. 966 Maulana is a title given only to a tiny elite of Islam’s scholars and interpreters. Abdul Hai writes, “where ever a danger to Islam emerges, it should be curbed before it could galvanize itself into a big force against Islam. Islam is a system of life, a complete code of life and to safeguard it, it is not enough to defend [it] in case of an attack by the anti-Islamic forces. Rather, it is also essential to make efforts to undermine anti-Islamic systems, to establish Islam… to plunge into the arrays of [the] enemy to remove their threat. That is why the Holy Prophet… said, ‘Now it will not be so that people us, rather we will come out to attack them.’” 967 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 151-152). Feral House. Kindle Edition. As the Muslim website Islamic World says, “The Qur’an clearly and directly asks all human beings to surrender to God (Allah).” 1010 Then the website invites you to “see the audio & video streaming of A Worldwide Islamic State.” Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 160). Feral House. Kindle Edition. There will not be any place left for the camp of kufr [for unbelievers] to exist on the Earth, not even as humbled dhimmi subjects [second-class citizens] living amongst the Muslims. —ISIS magazine Dābiq, issue 7, p. 65 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 161). Feral House. Kindle Edition. A dedicated Muslim, Ali Mazrui, director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, and writer and host of the nine-part PBS series The Africans, 1015 says that “When Islamic fundamentalism is combined with the zeal and dedication of jihad… the culture of procreation merges with the culture of combat.” What does he mean? “Fundamentalist Muslim families…,” Mazrui explains, “resort to having more and more children as a strategy for ‘multiplying in the name of Allah.’” 1016 Then Mazrui gets down to brass tacks. “Procreation itself,” he says in words we’ve heard from him before, “can be counted as a form of jihad.” 1017 That jihad— that war of the womb— gains from a simple rule: “If the father is Arab, the child is Arab, regardless of race or ethnic origins of the mother.” 1018 And if the father is a Muslim, his child is a Muslim. Mazrui calls the resulting Islamic reproductive approach “competitive procreation.” 1019 Remember, Mazrui is a Muslim whose works often portray Islam as a victim of imperialism, not an aggressor. 1025 So he’s skipped over the way that the “Islamizers” and “Arabizers” have used what the Qur’an calls “those whom thy right hand possesses” 1026 to increase the numbers of the faithful. He neglects rape, forced sex with slave girls, and forced sex with female prisoners. Mazrui also fails to explain what the modern Arab Muslims of the northern Sudan intend to do when, as he reports, they head south to the black portion of the country, Darfur— the land of Muslim raids and Muslim rape— saying, “I am going south— to bring into the world 40 more Arabs before I die!” 1027 Mazrui fails to tell us that these “40 more Arabs” will be produced by rape. Despite these omissions, Mazrui is telling you and me that one of militant Islam’s goals is to win more of the world by out-reproducing us. How does this apply to Europe? The fact is that Europe’s Muslim population in 2004 was growing at three times the rate of the non-Muslim population. 1028 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 162-163). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Wrote Vincent Cooper in The Commentator, “Britain is in denial. If population trends continue, by the year 2050, Britain will be a majority Muslim nation.” 1030 The usually staid London Times in a 1999 article was even more emphatic. It reported that the Muslim population of the UK “multiplied 10 times faster than the rest of society.” 1031 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 163). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Is this demographic shift an accident? Actually, it’s an old biological pattern. One that modern militant Islam has turned from an instinctual response to an overt power ploy. It’s the battle of opposing reproductive strategies that population biologists call “r” and “K.” 1039 The r reproductive strategy involves having lots of kids and gambling their lives… often in anticipation of violence. 1040 The opposite of r is the K strategy. 1041 K relies on having just a few kids, investing in them heavily, and protecting them mightily. The r and K instincts appear in everything from “bacteria, flies, mice, weeds, and rabbits” 1042 to guppies, 1043 minnows, 1044 voles1045… and to human beings. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 164). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Claimed Turnbull in 2004, mosques in Hamburg, London, Marseilles, and even Montreal were bringing in more jihadist recruits “than any Saudi Madrassa.” 1073 Some of these recruits, in the words of Osama bin Laden, 1074 were “competing among themselves for fighting and killing you.” 1075 Or, as ISIS’ official spokesman, Shaykh Abu Muhammad al-‘ Adnani, says in the pages of the ISIS magazine Dābiq: If you can kill a kafir [unbelieving] American or European... then rely upon Allah, and kill them in any manner possible, regardless of the method. 1076 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 166). Feral House. Kindle Edition. According to Stephen Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature and according to research cited in my book The Lucifer Principle, the rate of violence in the West is one-tenth what it was in 1650. One-tenth— a reduction of 90%. That’s in spite of the 752,000 1100 deaths of America’s Civil War and the 70 million deaths1101 of Europe’s two world wars. But there have been no comparable peace movements in Dar el Islam. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 170). Feral House. Kindle Edition. ….jihad, as one young Egyptian told Britain’s Grenada TV in 1987, “is a tree that feeds on blood and grows on severed limbs.” 1102 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 170). Feral House. Kindle Edition. We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women…[ and] will sell your sons as slaves at the slave market. —From ISIS’ Magazine, Dābiq1103 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 171). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Says Der Spiegel: Meining carefully traced how this community of ex-Nazis built a mosque in Munich after founding the Mosque Construction Commission in 1960. Today, the Mosque Construction Commission goes by the name of the Islamic Society of Germany (IGD) and has become Germany’s most important Muslim organization, with longstanding close links to the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical fundamentalist group based in Egypt. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 172). Feral House. Kindle Edition. In July [2013], Muslim mobs ushered in the beginning of Ramadan with three nights of rioting in Hamburg. The unrest began on the evening of July 12 when more than 150 Muslim youths attacked police and burned cars in Altona, the westernmost district of Hamburg. More than 100 riot police were deployed to restore order. An 11-minute video of the Hamburg unrest, with cries of “Allahu Akbar!” (“Allah is Greater!”) can be viewed... on YouTube. 1120 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 173). Feral House. Kindle Edition. (Palestinian leader) “… Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the grand mufti of Jerusalem . . .was called the Fuehrer of the Muslim world.” Why was the grand mufti called “the Fuehrer”? The grand mufti met with Adolph Hitler, corresponded with him frequently, lived for four years in Berlin as a guest of the Nazi government, was given seven luxurious Berlin residences, a chauffeured Mercedes, a weekly stipend of $ 10,000, and a lavish food allowance so he could woo other Muslim leaders to the Nazi cause. 1166 He was also named an honorary Aryan. Topping it all off, the mufti toured Germany’s Oranienburg concentration camp, met with SS head Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, and helped the SS recruit between 24,000 and 27,000 Muslim Bosnians to the SS ranks. 1167 A key SS task was killing Jews. 1168 Most important, the grand mufti shared Hitler’s vision of exterminating the Jews utterly, the vision of “killing Jews wherever Arabs found them.” 1169 On top of all that, the mufti was a man who Palestinian founding father Yasser Arafat met when he was 17 and who Arafat “came to adore and emulate.” 1170 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 177-178). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Which brings us to CAIR, the Council for American-Islamic Relations. CAIR presents itself as the leading voice of moderate Islam in America. CAIR has been brought in as a trusted ally by the FBI, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Bush1173 and Clinton White House. 1174 Whenever Islam is accused of harboring violence, spokesmen from CAIR pop up on as many television shows as they can reach, explaining that “Islam is a religion of peace.” But that’s not what CAIR says in private. Omar Ahmad is CAIR’s founding president. At a 1993 Hamas meeting in Philadelphia, a meeting that intelligence analyst Stephen Coughlin explains “led to the formation of CAIR,” Ahmad said point blank, “you send two messages: one to the Americans and one to the Muslims.” 1175 In other words, you dissimulate, you use guile, you employ deception, you lie. All tools that Muhammad felt were vital to war and to conquest. Ahmad reportedly admitted to an all-Muslim audience in California as early as 1998 that “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur’an . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” 1176 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 179). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Remember, on American TV, CAIR repeats a consistent mantra, “Islam is a religion of peace.” But, again, that’s not the way CAIR acts in private. In fact, CAIR has been named a “terrorist organization.” It hasn’t earned that label from a flaming right-wing Islamophobic gang. It’s been dubbed “terrorist” “by the United Arab Emirates,” 1180 a nation whose officials can read what CAIR dignitaries say in their private language, Arabic. This may explain why, in a case against a George Mason University honors graduate, Sabri Benkahla, who went to Pakistan to join the Taliban, the U.S. government stated that “from its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.” 1181 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 179-180). Feral House. Kindle Edition. As Osama bin Laden liked to say, this “clash is in fact a clash of civilizations,” 1183 a world war that girdles the globe and that has a front line extending, according to Osama, to “. . . everywhere.” 1184 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 180). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Could a statement by one Islamic author, Dr. Ali Muhammad Naqvi, provide a clue? “Islam,” he says, “addresses all of mankind as a single unit. Its system is not for a nation, but for the whole human society. It is the duty of Muslims to fight unyieldingly against every other ideology and school including nationalism, communism and liberalism, politically and intellectually and they should not rest until the school of God [Islam] comes to dominate over the personal, social, political, economic, intellectual and religious life of man.” 1188 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 181). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Muslim radicals are at work in jails all over the world. In a prison, the jihadist recruiters have a perfect environment— a hothouse for jihadist conversion. They have a population that enjoys violence, that breaks secular laws, and that has been humiliated by imprisonment. Society has told these inmates that they are the scum of the earth. Jihadist Islam Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 181). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Muslim radicals are at work in jails all over the world. In a prison, the jihadist recruiters have a perfect environment— a hothouse for jihadist conversion. They have a population that enjoys violence, that breaks secular laws, and that has been humiliated by imprisonment. Society has told these inmates that they are the scum of the earth. Jihadist Islam tells these prisoners that they are the very opposite. If they convert to Islam, they can have authority over all of humanity. They can be heroes and aristocrats. How? By doing what they love. Violent deeds. Murder. Torture. And by taking advantage of Allah’s generosity— looting the goods of those who do not believe. They are no longer thieves and murderers. They are knights destined for an express trip to paradise. All they have to do is kill and plunder under the auspices of Islam. And under the strict control of military leaders. Leaders disguised as ordinary citizens. The deal jihad offers is unbeatable. And the inmates have one more thing: plenty of spare time. Spare time in which to be indoctrinated in the basics of Islam. The result is converts like Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, who converted to Islam in Britain’s Blundeston prison, then became an aspiring suicide bomber. 1191 As long ago as 2006, Donald Van Duyn, deputy assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security that, “Prison radicalization primarily occurs through anti-U.S. sermons provided by contract, volunteer, or staff imams.” 1200 You read that right. Our prison system is paying official imams to preach a form of Islam crackling with violence. And it is allowing radical preachers to come in as volunteers. In the name of freedom of religion. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 183). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Mark S. Hamm, a terrorism specialist at Indiana State University’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, says that “America’s prisoners” are even singled out as “candidates for conversion” in “al-Qaeda training manuals.” 1205 What makes prison converts perfect for terrorism? And for jihad? Says Van Duyn, “Some radicalized Islamic inmates are current or former members of street or prison gangs, indicating an emerging ‘crossover’ trend from gang member to Islamist extremist.” 1206 The discipline and violence of gang life are perfect training grounds for war, for jihad against the West. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 184). Feral House. Kindle Edition. As Brighton points out, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. But Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated imams are paid substantial sums to act as prison chaplains. Brighton gives examples that are scary: Chaplain Umar Abdul-Jalil — was hired at an annual salary of $ 76,602 even though he served 14 years for dealing drugs. In 2006, he was suspended for two weeks without pay after declaring that “the greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House.” He continues to oversee 40 prison chaplains. 1208 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 184-185). Feral House. Kindle Edition. How are Muslim radicalizers doing in their recruitment efforts in American jails? “The statistics are staggering,” Brighton wrote in 2014, “and woefully out of date. One out of three African-American inmates in U.S. prisons converts to Islam while incarcerated. This statistic is no longer limited to African-Americans in prison. The Huffington Post reported an estimated 35,000– 40,000 inmates convert to Islam each year, and that 15 percent of the total U.S. prison population or 350,000 inmates are Muslim. This is more than 18 times the national representation of Muslims in America, reported to be 0.8 percent.” 1211 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 185). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 185). Feral House. Kindle Edition. One expert from inside the Muslim world, Saudi professor Nasser Bin Suleiman Al-Omar, the man behind the website www.almoslim.net, offers the following evaluation: America is collapsing from within… Islam is advancing according to a steady plan, to the point that tens of thousands of Muslims have Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 186). Feral House. Kindle Edition. One expert from inside the Muslim world, Saudi professor Nasser Bin Suleiman Al-Omar, the man behind the website www.almoslim.net, offers the following evaluation: America is collapsing from within… Islam is advancing according to a steady plan, to the point that tens of thousands of Muslims have joined the American army and Islam is the second largest religion in America. Today, America is defeated. I have no doubt, not even for a minute, that America is on its way to destruction. 1212 America, says Al-Omar, will be conquered “from within.” Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 186). Feral House. Kindle Edition. eda, and Boko Haram (p. 186). Feral House. Kindle Edition. There was another figure who had spotted rap’s potential and moved in early in the game. His name was Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan had a terrific ear for talent. He would swoop in on a young, inexperienced rapper early in his or her career, when he or she was confused and in need of guidance. He would “educate” him or her. One of his most famous early converts was the critically admired band Public Enemy. 1213 What two books were the foundation of Farrakhan’s “education”? A book that the Russian secret police, the Okhrana, had fabricated in 19051214 to take the heat off the tsar after that ruler had ignominiously lost a war with Japan. The falsified book claimed to be the meeting notes of a group of Jews who got together to plot world wars and global financial collapses. Its title: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Tellingly, Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam was the distributor of the Protocols in the United States. The second book in Farrakhan’s “education” was The International Jew, a vituperatively anti-Semitic book by Henry Ford. 1215 These were two of the books with which Adolph Hitler1216 had justified the murder of six million Jews, the Holocaust. What movement did Louis Farrakhan lead? The Nation of Islam, the biggest Muslim group in America’s black community. 1217 The group that had recruited Malcolm X. Farrakhan was using Muhammad’s strategy. Find converts among those on the bottom of the social ladder. Then give your recruits a feeling of power by pitting them against a nerd, an enemy too small to retaliate. Farrakhan’s group of choice had been the folks the Qur’an called “apes and swine”— monkeys and pigs. 1218 The group whose members would be pointed out by the very stones behind which they were hiding, and even the stones would call for their death. The Jews. Precisely the group Muhammad had targeted. And Muhammad had made a wise choice. Nearly 1,400 years after his death, there were still Jews to target. And at a mere 16 million globally, they were far too small to pose a danger to Islam’s 1.6 billion. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 187). Feral House. Kindle Edition. …from a statement made by Senator Rand Paul in 2013. Paul said, “Pew Research did a poll which indicated that 21 percent of Egyptians, 15 percent of Jordanians, and 13 percent of Pakistani Muslims find terrorism acceptable if not laudable. A minority? To be sure. But if you add up the numbers in just three countries, over 40 million Muslims sympathize with violence against Christians.” 1304 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 201). Feral House. Kindle Edition. . . . 64 percent of Pakistanis support the death penalty for people who leave Islam. Sixty-four percent support the death penalty for apostates. 1341 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 205). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Re: the term “moderate Islam”—“ These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.” —Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan1433 “We cannot accept insults to Islam under the guise of freedom of thought.” —Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan1434 IT’S LITTLE WONDER, then, that until the Egyptian Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 219). Feral House. Kindle Edition. . . ,. today’s Muslims have been force-fed the philosophies of men like Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Tamimi1476— founder of Wahhabism, the jihadist religion taught in Saudi-sponsored schools in nearly every major Western and Eastern city in the world. 1477 The Saudi government has allegedly spent an astonishing $ 100 billion1478 to build mosques, establish Muslim community centers, endow chairs at elite American universities, provide “teacher training,” 1479 and supply textbooks from Tokyo, 1480 Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Brasilia to Los Angeles, Chicago, 1481 Detroit, 1482 and the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. 1483 The goal? To promote Wahhab’s version of Islam. A jihadist version. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 222). Feral House. Kindle Edition. (I)n Sivas, Turkey, demonstrators denounced the Muslim who had translated The Satanic Verses into Turkish. These street mobs did more than chant for the translator’s death. They set a local hotel on fire, killing 37 hotel guests. 1494 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 223-224). Feral House. Kindle Edition. . . . prominent Muslims like the Mufti of Jerusalem, the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder Hassan al-Banna, and Iraqi Prime Minister Rashid Ali al-Gaylani sided with the Nazis, met with Hitler and his top lieutenants, were funded by the Nazis, lived for years in Berlin, and enthusiastically supported the fuehrer’s drive to exterminate the Jews. 1533 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 234). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Professor Said deliberately surfed the waves of Western tolerance when he said that Islamophobia was akin to anti-Semitism. Or, as Said put it, Islamophobia “stemmed from the same source, has been nourished at the same stream as anti-Semitism.” What’s more, to understand Islamophobia, all we have to do is understand “the cultural mechanisms of anti-Semitism.” 1551 Oh, and one more thing: we have to hate Israel. In other words, we have to ignore Islam’s nearly 1,400-year history of murderous anti-Semitism. But that’s not all. Professor Said also wanted us to overlook Islam’s 1,100-year history of imperial conquest and the modern Islamic militants’ goal of “liberating” the entire world. And we complied. We covered our eyes. With our help, Edward Said was able to make the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims— with their 57 nations, their territory seven times the size of the United States, and their oil wealth— appear to be a tiny, picked-upon minority. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 236). Feral House. Kindle Edition. . . . the head of the United Nations declared that fear of Islam was a form of “bigotry.” It was an irrational and unacceptable prejudice with no truth behind it. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 237). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Here are two examples of the sort of Islamophobia that the OIC wanted Western nations to stop with “deterrent punishment.” As reported in the OIC’s eighth report on Islamophobia in 2015: Bill Maher, an American comedian while the host of a popular TV program in the U.S., was spouted [sic] in his viral debate in October 2014 with Ben Affleck saying that ‘Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas.’ 1567 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 238). Feral House. Kindle Edition. There is a trick to the word Islamophobia. A phobia is a mental illness. It’s an irrational fear like the fear of spiders (arachnophobia), the fear of snakes (ophidiophobia), Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 244). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Was the war between Islam and the West from 711 A.D. to 18621596 a dream? Were events like the 773-year-long takeover of Spain, the attempt to conquer France in 732 A.D., and the sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683 phantasms, ghosts, nasty nightmares cooked up by insidious folks who wanted to pick on poor, innocent Islam? Or were these assaults on the West real? Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 244). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Do militant Muslims have a phobia of their own? An irrational hatred of the West? An irrational hatred, in fact, of all non-believers, whether those unbelievers are in the United States, England, France, or China and Thailand? Are beheadings, kidnappings, and mass murders in the Philippines, Kenya, and Nigeria clever hoaxes, insane delusions, or are they a matter of fact? Who has the real phobias, the real irrational hatreds, the activists of ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram, or you and me? And one more point. When an irrational fear has a history of motivating conquests, massive, history-changing conquests, is it really irrational? Or is it a turbocharger for a superorganism hungry to increase its sway? Is it a tool of power? A cutting edge with which to change the very face of reality? Is militant Islam’s xenophobia a blade in a killing machine? And if it is, why are there no complaints about it? No protests, no words to make it seem diseased, no protesters, no conferences, no attempts to stigmatize kafirophobia. Why no effort by the West to decry the crowds who call for killing in Tehran or Lahore? Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 244-246). Feral House. Kindle Edition. head. The Balkan Mujahideen revived an old technique, one straight out of the playbook of Muhammad— beheading. Beheading local Christians then displaying their heads on poles. Sympathetic Muslims around the world purchased videotapes and DVDs of these beheadings and were filled with pride by the sight. But you and I were not supposed to know about these tapes. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 249-250). Feral House. Kindle Edition. “Islam does not allow peace between... a Muslim and an infidel.” 1693 The Ayatollah explains that Islam has been forced to “obliterate many tribes” 1694 to defend the purity of Islam. Yes, he said “obliterate.” As in mass murder and genocide. Others put it differently. They call for “The Annihilation of the Infidels.” 1695 In fact, “annihilation of the infidels” is a phrase that’s repeated many a time by modern militant Muslim leaders. Why? Because it’s in the Qur’an. 1696 Because it comes from Muhammad’s extermination of the males of the Jewish Banu Quraiza in 627 A.D. Writes Seif Al-Din Al-Ansari, a militant writer for the online Islamic magazine Al-Ansar, “The Annihilation of the Infidels is a Divine Decree.” 1697 Period! Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 262-263). Feral House. Kindle Edition. ON MAY 12, 2004, Osama Bin Laden, a leader whose words are still held in high regard, 1712 explained what he and other leaders like him want from you and me. In a message to the worldwide community of Islam he wrote, “The main confrontation,” is “a religious and doctrinal one, not an economic or military one.” “The clash,” he said, “is in fact a clash of civilizations” 1713— a clash of ideas, a clash of views of the world. In other speeches, Bin Laden said that only one form of government is permissible in this world— government based on the laws that God himself gave to Muhammad in the seventh century, shariah, strict Qur’anic law. Any other form of government, he said with emphasis, is “horrific.” 1714 For those of us who still didn’t get it, Osama spelled out our democracy’s most appalling sin. “Rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, [you] choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire.” 1715 Continued an outraged Osama, you refuse to “accept Islam to be the source of all legislation.” 1716 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 269). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Then, on March 11, 2004, 13 bombs on commuter trains in Spain were triggered to explode simultaneously at the height of Madrid’s rush hour. Ten went off, killing 191 people and wounding 1,460.1730 Al Qaeda in Europe claimed responsibility. Said al Qaeda’s taped statement, “You love life and we love death, which gives you an example of what the prophet Muhammad said… the blood will flow more and more, and these attacks will seem very small.” 1731 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 271). Feral House. Kindle Edition. In 1998, Pakistan, one of the two most populous Islamic nations in the world, 1739 tested what the country’s Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto proudly called “The Islamic Bomb,” 1740 Islam’s first nuclear weapon. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 272). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Meanwhile the Muslim world’s publicists, PR and lobbying firms, 1775 and propaganda specialists were softening up the West for the extermination of Israel by demonizing the Jewish nation in the Western press. How? Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, built weapons bunkers1776 close to towns and near a UN outpost, 1777 built a command bunker and above-ground compound in a heavily populated suburban Beirut neighborhood, 1778 positioned its artillery pieces between apartment buildings, 1779 and prepared to fire its rockets from what the Australian Sunday Mail called “high density residential areas” 1780— including the balconies of high-rise apartment buildings in Beirut’s eastern suburbs. Then it started a war, forcing the Jews to aim their weapons at civilians. Next Hezbollah operatives set up checkpoints, stopped journalists, seized all film and footage of Hezbollah’s war-making, 1781 and made up for it by giving reporters and camera crews guided tours of the hospitals where wounded children lay dying. Though the wounds these children endured were the result of a deliberate Hezbollah strategy, Hezbollah’s attempt to portray the Israelis as child-killers in the Lebanon War of 2006 succeeded. A nation that kills seven-year-olds deserves annihilation, doesn’t it? The strategy worked. In fact, it worked so well that another Iranian ally, Hamas, adopted it in 2014 when it used rocket attacks on civilian targets in Israel to start a war in Gaza. Four thousand rocket attacks. Because Hamas placed its weapons next to, on top of, and on the balconies of schools, hospitals, and homes, Israel’s counterattack killed 2,142 civilians. And that was the plan. Create headlines demonizing Israel. Use civilians as human shields so that Israel’s defensive strikes could be portrayed as the deliberate murder of women and children. 1782 And on March 9, 2016, after signing a deal with America promising not to develop nuclear weapons, Iran broke a prohibition placed upon it by a United Nations resolution, Resolution 2231, and launched two 1,200-mile-range sophisticated, high-accuracy missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The hulls of the rockets were decorated with these words painted in Farsi and Hebrew: “Israel must be wiped off the Earth.” 1783 The quote was taken from the revered founder of Iran’s Islamic Revolution: the Ayatollah Khomeini. The inscription was designed to flaunt Iran’s commitment to the extermination of what it calls “the Zionist entity.” For the most part, the Western press, attempting not to wound Islamic sensibilities, failed to report the missile’s official— and genocidal— graffiti. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Islamophobia campaign worked wonders. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 274-275). Feral House. Kindle Edition. A 21st-century jihadist we’ve already met, Seif Al-Din Al-Ansari, writing in al Qaeda’s online magazine Al-Ansar, declared in 2002, “The elements of the collapse of Western civilization are proliferating… In spite of all the characteristics of power at their command, these infidel states are no more than a handful of creatures on the speck of dust called Planet Earth…. Allah told us of the certainty of the annihilation of the infidels… by means of the Muslim group, which would, in accordance with the Islamic commandment… torture them… The question now on the agenda is, how is the torture Allah wants done at our hands to be carried out?” 1796 The answer to that question may be easy now that Allah has given Islam’s warriors what the Qur’an calls “the fire whose fuel is Men and Stones” 1797… the fire of nuclear weaponry. 1798 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 277). Feral House. Kindle Edition. When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threw a press conference over a decade ago, in September 2006, to report on his visit to Senegal, Cuba, Venezuela, and the United Nations, he said, “And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.” Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 277). Feral House. Kindle Edition. In 1127 A.D. the Spanish-born traveler and scholar Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Walid al-Tartushi, Abu Bakr of Tortosa, went through the holy books of Islam and the books of fiqh, the collected rulings of Islamic scholars, to derive God’s own laws for warfare, the stratagems used by Allah’s one true prophet, Muhammad. He came to the conclusion, “As to those whom it is lawful to slay, the fiqh declares that a Muslim in war may slay any unbeliever (idolater) whether combatant or not” and “... war means deception... the most effective stratagem in war is the ambush. Not too many men must be employed in it; one good one being better than ten thousand others... in surprise lies destructive effect.” Reuben Levy, The Social Structure of Islam: Being the Second Edition of the Sociology of Islam. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1957. p. 456. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 278). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Muslims are obligated to raid the lands of the infidels, occupy them, and exchange their system of governance for an Islamic system, barring any practice that contradicts Shari’a from being publicly voiced among the people, as was the case in the dawn of Islam. … They say that our Shari’a does not impose our particular beliefs upon others; this is a false assertion. For it is, in fact, part of our religion to impose our particular beliefs upon others. … Thus whoever refuses the principle of terror against the enemy also refuses the commandment of Allah the Exalted, the Most High, and His Shari’a —Osama bin Laden1803 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 279). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Here’s how Khomeini outlined his vision of Iran’s future: We will export our revolution throughout the world... until the calls ‘there is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God’ are echoed all over the world. 1830 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 285). Feral House. Kindle Edition. This principle was so fundamental to the new Iran that it was built into the Iranian Constitution of 1979.1831 As the Preamble to the Iranian Constitution put it, “The Assembly of Experts... fram[ ed] the Constitution... with the hope that this century will witness the establishment of a universal holy government and the downfall of all others.” 1832 And the Islamic Revolution’s “armed forces… will have as their mission sacred battle in the name of god for the extension of divine sovereignty of god in the world.” 1833 You read that right: the “extension of divine sovereignty of god in the world.” The entire world. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 285). Feral House. Kindle Edition. . . . the Hamas Covenant, 1909 commits it to the utter annihilation of Israel. Here’s how the Hamas Charter puts it: The Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim). 1910 Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (pp. 291-292). Feral House. Kindle Edition. Who left the goal that drove Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Osama bin Laden, and the Ayatollah Khomeini? Who left the imperatives that drive ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram? Who left the legacy of toppling all governments that are “unjust” and “tyrannical” because they are not run by the laws of Shariah and because they are not governed by Muslims? Who left the commandment that all the world, from Paraguay to Pennsylvania and from Budapest to Beijing must become Muslim? Who wrote the letters to the emperors in 629 A.D.? Who left the ideas that led to the biggest empire in the history of the world— an empire 11 times the size of the conquests of Alexander the Great, five times the size of the Roman Empire, and seven times the size of the United States? Who told suicide bombers that they would go straight to the seventh level of heaven and be greeted by virgins “so beautiful, pure and transparent (that) the marrow of the bones of their legs will be seen through the bones and the flesh”? 1929 Who put sex in paradise? And who made war— and killing— an obligation of very able-bodied male until the Day of Judgement? 1930 The only true prophet to mankind. The only man whose every move was a communiqué from the creator of the universe, a directive from the God who made this planet from a clod of mud and who made you and me from clots of blood. That one true prophet was, you guessed it, Muhammad. And Muhammad’s example— a legacy preserved in the Qur’an, the Hadith, the biographies of ibn Ishaq, and al-Tabari, not to mention in the hearts of passionate jihadis from one end of this Earth to the other— is the Muhammad Code. Bloom, Howard (2016-11-21). The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram (p. 296). 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