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By Andrew G. Bostom
Once again a mere flicker -- in this case burning a copy of the Koran in
Florida -- has ignited the inferno of deeply seated infidel-hatred that
pervades the contemporary Muslim world, precipitating violence, death, and
general mayhem amongst our Afghan " allies."
This eruption was hardly pastor Terry Jones' fault. The insane orgy of
murderous Muslim violence in Afghanistan was a direct result of Islamic
doctrine. Jones' simple non-violent act effectively administered a
diagnostic societal stress test revealing -- yet again -- the pathological
mindset engendered by an Islam that remains ossified in its Medieval
fortress, defiantly unreformed and unrepentant.
Kansas-born Ann Barnhardt was raised on a farm with a working cow-calf
operation. Her formal training includes a B.S. in Animal Husbandry and
Agricultural Economics, obtained at Kansas State University. Now a Colorado-
based commodity broker, she reacted with singular clarity and courage to the
recent carnage by the all too familiar Afghan Muslim mobs, and of equal
importance, their witless, morally cretinous American apologists. Her verbal
dismembering of Lindsey Graham (in Part 1) is epochal.
Diana West introduced me to Ann's highly informed, if appropriately
trenchant videos (in two parts), which can be viewed in full at these links
[(Part 1); (Part 2)] Diana's commentary and a subsequent equally insightful
blog by Roger Kimball provide valuable context to Ann Barnhardt's videos
seen through the prism of two of our most perspicacious cultural critics.
My focus is on Barnhardt's astute, irrefragable observation (starting at 1:
54) that Islam is a "...totalitarian political system masquerading as a
religion," and her accurate "exegesis" of Koranic verses, entirely
consistent with their interpretation by a classical mainstream Koranic
commentary that remains the seminal work introducing Muslims to "Koranic
understanding."
First, Ann Barnhardt's view of Islam as an innately totalitarian political
system comports with a continuum of modern assessments by great Western
scholars dating back to the renowned Swiss historian Jacob Burkhardt in the
mid-19th century. Bernard Lewis, the eminence grise of contemporary Western
scholars of Islam, confirmed Burckhardt's assessment a century later.
Perhaps the initial reference to Islam as a totalitarian system,
specifically (Burckhardt used the most comparable 19th century term "
despotism"), was made in 1937 by Charles R. Watson, the Cairo-born first
head of the American University at Cairo. Watson noted,
In the case of the Mohammedan world, religion has seemingly affected
every detail of life with its prescriptions and requirements...[N]o other
religion, as it conquered new territory, has so completely and quickly wiped
out even the culture of the conquered people and imposed upon their total
life new ways and customs, often a new language, as has the Mohammedan
religion.
Islam can truly be described as totalitarian. By a million roots,
penetrating every phase of life, all of them with religious significance, it
is able to maintain its hold upon the life of the Moslem peoples.
Subsequently, in 1950, G.H. Bousquet, one of the pre-eminent 20th century
scholars of the Shari'a (Islamic Law), described Islam as "as a doubly
totalitarian system," which, via the timeless institution of jihad war,
...claimed to impose itself on the whole world and it claimed also, by
the divinely appointed Muhammadan law...to regulate down to the smallest
details the whole life of the Islamic community and of every individual
believer.
Lastly, Bernard Lewis in his 1954 essay, "Communism and Islam" expounded
upon the quintessence of totalitarian Islam, and how it was antithetical in
nature to Western democracy, while sharing important features of Communist
totalitarianism -- in particular, global domination via jihad.
Quite obviously, the Ulama [religious leaders] of Islam are very
different from the Communist Party. Nevertheless, on closer examination, we
find certain uncomfortable resemblances. Both groups profess a totalitarian
doctrine, with complete and final answers to all questions on heaven and
earth; the answers are different in every respect, alike only in their
finality and completeness, and in the contrast they offer with the eternal
questioning of Western man. Both groups offer to their members and followers
the agreeable sensation of belonging to a community of believers, who are
always right, as against an outer world of unbelievers, who are always wrong
. Both offer an exhilarating feeling of mission, of purpose, of being
engaged in a collective adventure to accelerate the historically inevitable
victory of the true faith over the infidel evil-doers. The traditional
Islamic division of the world into the House of Islam and the House of War,
two necessarily opposed groups, of which- the first has the collective
obligation of perpetual struggle against the second, also has obvious
parallels in the Communist view of world affairs. There again, the content
of belief is utterly different, but the aggressive fanaticism of the
believer is the same. The humorist who summed up the Communist creed as "
There is no God and Karl Marx is his Prophet'" was laying his finger on a
real affinity. The call to a Communist Jihad, a Holy War for the faith-a new
faith, but against the self-same Western Christian enemy-might well strike
a responsive note.
The denouement of Ann Barnhardt's video presentation (Part 2) is her
recitation of and brief exegesis upon 17 Koranic verses (from Al-Qur'an: A
Contemporary Translation, by Ahmed Ali Princeton University Press, 2001),
bookmarked with strips of bacon, followed by the removal and burning of the
individual pages containing these verses, and ultimately, the remainder of
this paperbound English translation of the Koran. Harmlessly burning an
inanimate object is not only protected by the first amendment, it is
irrelevant. The only germane "context" of Ann Barnhardt's presentation is
the interpretation of the verses she removed and burned -- verses which, I
concur with her, epitomize the misogyny, infidel-hatred, and jihadism that
unfortunately, are redolent in the Koran. Simply put, Ann Barnhardt's
assessment is consistent with classical, mainstream Islamic understanding.
Al-Suyuti (1445-1505) was born in Cairo, where his father taught Shaf'i law
(one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic Law), and acted as a
substitute kadi. He is recognized as the most prolific author in the realm
of Islamic literature. A brilliant multidisciplinary scholar, Al-Suyuti was
a learned jurist, historian, and biographer. Among his many scholarly
contributions are about twenty works of Koranic studies, including seminal
Koranic commentaries (Tafsir). Tafsir al-Jalalayn, meaning "The Commentary
of the Two Jalals," is named after its two authors, Al-Suyuti, and his
mentor Jalalu'd-Din al-Mahalli (1389-1459), who wrote the initial half of
this classic work. Al-Suyuti completed Tafsir al-Jalalayn following al-
Mahalli's death. These apt comments heralded the appearance of a 1378 pp.
English translation of Tafsir al-Jalalayn in 2008 by an accomplished
contemporary Arabic to English translator:
The publication of this book is a landmark in the history of Islamic
literature in English. With this work, for the first time, a complete
translation of one of the great classical commentaries on the Holy Qur'an
becomes available to English-speaking readers. For half a millennium Tafsir
al-Jalalayn has been considered the essential first step in the study of the
meanings of the Qur'an by teachers and students throughout the Islamic
world Although it is among the shortest and simplest .of the ‘complete
commentaries, it is at the same time both wide-ranging and profound. This
translation gives non-Arabic speakers access to one of the seminal works of
classical tafsir literature. It is hoped that it will prove a valuable aid
to the correct understanding of the Qur'anic Revelation throughout the
English-speaking world.
Aisha Abdurrahman at Tarjumana Bewley is one today's most prolific
translators of classical Arabic work into English. Aisha Bewley not only
understands Arabic but she is also aware of the basic meanings and nature of
teachings and history of Islam. Her knowledge is born of experience and
direct transmission, not merely academic theory and learning by rote. For
more than twenty-five years she has been concerned with making the contents
of many classical works in Arabic more Accessible to English-speaking
readers for the first time...
What follows are the Tafsir al-Jalalayn commentaries on eleven verses (2:
191; 2:193; 4:24; 4:34; 5:33; 8:12; 9:5; 9:29; 9:80; 9:123; 47:4)
illustrating Koranic misogyny, infidel-hatred, and jihadism , as directed to
our attention by Ann Barnhardt (Part 2).
Gentle reader, compare the Ann Barnhardt's video presentation to the formal
Koranic exegeses, that follow.
Res ipsa loquitur.
2:191 -- "Kill them wherever you come across them and expel them from where
they expelled you...That is how (by killing and expelling them) the
unbelievers should be repaid.
2:193 -- "Fight them until there is no more fitna (shirk [unbelief]) in
existence and the din (worship) belongs to Allah alone and none but him is
worshipped."
4:24 -- "...those you have taken in war as slaves...You may have relations
with them if they have husbands in the Abode of War after istibra (the
waiting period to ascertain when they are pregnant). That is what Allah has
prescribed for you."
4:34 -- "Men have charge of women by teaching and taking charge because
Allah has preferred the one above the other in terms of knowledge,
intelligence and custody, and because they (men) spend their wealth on them
(women) in maintenance. Right-acting women are obedient to their husbands,
safeguarding their husbands' interests and their private parts in their
absence as Allah has guarded them through their husbands when they are there
. If there are women whose disobedience you fear, you may admonish them and
make them fear Allah, refuse to sleep with them and go to another bed, and
then beat them..."
5:33 -- "The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His Messenger
by fighting the Muslims and go about the earth corrupting it [for example,
the Jews, as per the preceding verse 5:32] by committing highway robbery is
that they should be killed or crucified, or have their opposite hands and
feet cut off -- right hand and left foot -- or be banished from the land...
Connected to exile are punishments of imprisonment and the like. That
punishment will be their degradation in this world and in the Next World
they will have a terrible punishment in the Fire."
8:12 -- "And when your Lord revealed to the angels who reinforced the
Muslims, ‘I am with you with help and support so make those who believe
firm through the help and good news you bring. I will cast terror (extreme
fear) into the hearts of those who disbelieve, so strike their necks (behead
them) and strike all their finger joints, cutting off their fingers and
toes!' "
9:5 -- "Then, when the sacred months are over -- in other words, at the end
of the period of delay granted -- kill the idolaters wherever you find them
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