Although Western media regularly claim no “motive” for many of the Islamic attacks on non-Muslims, many are by now at least vaguely aware that the Muslim perpetrators rely on generic Islamic teachings that foster hostility for non-Muslims.
Yet often overlooked are the very stringent and detailed Islamic rulings behind many terror attacks.
Take the recent attack on St. Peter’s Cathedral in Egypt, which left at least 25 Christian worshippers—the majority of whom were women and children—dead and which ISIS claimed. While many might write it off as just another generic attack targeting Coptic Christian “infidels,” the reality is that ISIS and other Islamic groups and individuals relied on arcane and little known Islamic rulings to justify their violence.
For instance, why was St. Peter’s specifically targeted? The obvious answer is that it holds a prestigious place among the Coptic Orthodox community, as it stands within the St. Mark complex, the seat of the Coptic Pope in Cairo, Egypt’s capital.
Yet there is another reason. In November 2014, ISIS called on its Muslim followers and sympathizers to attack all churches in Cairo. Then, one Abu Mus‘ab al-Maqdisi, an ISIS leader, said in a statement that “It is necessary to take the battle to Cairo,” and for jihadis to target the Copts: “For targeting them, following them, and killing them is one of the main ways to serve the cause of our virtuous male and female hostages of the tyrants.”
A few months later, one Hussein bin Mahmoud, a jurist of Sharia law for the Islamic State, said in an article published on February 17, 2015, and appearing in various jihadi websites, that all Christian churches in Cairo must be demolished. Titled the “Ruling on Egypt’s Christians,” the article, written like a fatwa, asserts that
The ruling concerning the churches that are in Cairo is that they be destroyed, according to the consensus of the righteous forefathers, because they are new under Islam, and Cairo is a new city whose original inhabitants were Muslim; there were no churches in it previously.
As for churches in Upper Egypt, which may have been in existence before the Islamic conquest of Egypt, these may remain but may never be renovated or fixed.
All this is related to the mainstream Islamic view concerning non-Muslim places of worship: if they existed when Islam’s historic jihadis invaded the land, and if the native people surrendered peacefully, they may continue to exist (though never repaired); if, on the other hand, the native people resisted the invading Muslims, then all existing churches must be destroyed. In both cases new churches are not allowed to be built.
As it happens, modern Cairo was founded in the 10th century, nearly 400 hundred years after Islam first invaded and conquered Coptic Egypt. Thus, according to the Islamic worldview, under no circumstances should there be any churches in Cairo, since, according to this notion, it was Islamic from its inception.
Hence one of the reasons why St. Peter’s in Cairo was chosen for bombing.
Such are the minute details and rulings that regularly inform the hostile worldview of ISIS and its millions of Muslim sympathizers.
But of course Western analysts may be excused for being ignorant of this arcane ruling. After all, if Sunni militants such as ISIS are zealous over the welfare of Sunni cities, most of them are equally ignorant of the ironic fact that Cairo—even Al Azhar, the world’s most famous Sunni school—were founded by and served the interests of one of Sunni Islam’s greatest historic enemies: the Shias of the Fatimid dynasty.
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This would be a good time for everyone visiting this site to go to YouTube and look up Tom Holland on his investigation into the beginnings of Islam. Even most Islamist don’t know this, but their religion and the Koran are just stories, that have little resemblance to the man they call Mohammad.
Mohammad was little more than a Bedouin tribesman, who after his death, was little thought of as anything special. For hundreds of years hand-me-down stories repeated from father to son about Mohammad were compiled into a book called the Koran by a warlord who needed a mechanism to control those he conquered. As stories are repeated time an again in the retelling they lose what the original story line was, which then bears little resemblance to an actual person the story was about.
It is time to call a-spade-a-spade. Muslime are operating under a false doctrine compiled by a warlord. How else would anyone account for the disgusting things it promulgates as righteousness.
Yeah, a lot of people don’t realize it is a DEVIL like cult. I mean cutting women’s clitoris out should be a BIG CLUE!
They just like to dissect people like in a most crude manner. That’s all they exist for. The other stuff they do is to make them CrAZy enough to do it.
I have seen the documentaries that you have said and I agree that they are very good and informative! I have however read something that I believe is more valid and revealing than the things you mentioned! It’s a book by gj moshay called who is this Allah?. I have seen and read many other things about Islam and can say that this is a very good book!
OK Jamie, I just watched a short video of Moshay answering questions put to him of why he became Christian instead of staying Muslim. His argument was hollow as it compared two books both of which were constructed similarly. His logic was impeccable but nonsensical, you cannot justify anything from the pages of a book constructed as they were !
When very soon Disclosure brings to the fore that we are not alone in this universe and have never been, religions will become understood for what they are, nonsensical abstract control mechanisms. All their Gods will be seen for they are, Inter-dimensional Alien species who originally used their engineered species, Homo Sapien, Sapiens to be their slaves.
AND, humanity still acts like the slaves of those Aliens instead of climbing out from under that rock and truly seeing the universe for what it is, a wondrous conundrum viewed from a very narrow slice of its totality !!!
A What is the video called please?
I can’t find the video you are speaking about??
What the Jews think of JESUS “As for Christianity, there is a dispute among Halachic authorities, but the vast majority consider it idolatry as well. Islam, on the other hand, is not considered idolatry.”
Read thatlast bit again: “Islam, on the other hand, is not considered idolatry.”
Now read the Judgement of the rabbis …… Christians are IDOLITORS and should be put to death:
On the attitude towards gentiles–with sources
1. Killing gentiles and saving their lives
1.1) In principle, every person practicing idolatry (whether a gentile or a Jew) should be
put to death by a court of law. Idolatry is attributing divinity to any object (physical
or spiritual) other than the one and only G-d, whether this is done through ritual
(such as prayer, offerings of incense, or the like) or by a mere statement of faith.
Several contemporary religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism,
are undoubtedly considered idolatry. As for Christianity, there is a dispute among
Halachic authorities, but the vast majority consider it idolatry as well. Islam, on the
other hand, is not considered idolatry.
In a situation (such as we have now) where there is no Jewish court of law which
can sentence people to death, to corporal punishment, or even to the fines prescribed
by the Torah, and which therefore can not judge a man for the sin of idolatry:
It is permissible (and even commanded) for anyone to kill idolatrous Jews (and
those Jews, including atheists and agnostics, who publicly reject the divine authority
of Halacha) anywhere and anytime it is possible. However, contemporary Halachic
authorities have ruled that this law doesn’t apply nowadays.
While there is no obligation to kill idolatrous gentiles (nor, in fact, any gentiles who
don’t obey the 7 Noachide commandments), it is nevertheless forbidden to save their
lives. The exact Halachic status of a gentile who doesn’t practice idolatry as defined
above (and who also can be considered as fulfilling in practice the other Noachide
commandments), yet who declares himself to be an atheist or agnostic is not entirely
clear, though from some sources it appears that he too should be considered an
idolater.
Sources:
Maimonides, Laws of Repentance chapter 3
Maimonides, Laws of Idolatry chapter 2
Maimonides, Laws of Kings chapter 8
Tosephta on Tractate Bava Metziah (Leiberman edition) 2:33
Maimonides, Laws of Murder and Saving Lives chapter 4
Maimonides, Laws of Apostates chapter 3
Maimonides Laws of Testimony 11:10
Tur Yoreh Deah 158
Beit Yosef Yoreh Deah 158
Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 158
Shach Yoreh Deah 158
Chazon Ish, Yoreh Deah 13:16
Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, Igrot Hara’ayah
Responsa Tzitz Eliezer part 8, section 15, pamphlet Meshivat Nafesh chapter 5
I find this sort of doctrinal explanation very useful. Please bring us more.
He’s lying. Fustat (‘Cairo’) existed before islam.