3e. ISLAM’S CURRENT APOCALYPTIC JIHAD PART 3 IN SERIES: SLEEPING GIANT OF ISLAM AWAKENS
BY Dr .EARL PARVIN
2015
INTRODUCTION: Thus far we have examined the HISTORIC JIHAD OF ISLAM, beginning with Mohammed’s troubled life & untimely death. Then his followers reconquered the Arabian Tribes & exploded from the Arabian Desert to subjugate the Christian world. This jihad was finally stopped by the dismembering of the Ottoman Empire by the European Powers at the end of WW1. Then the Muslim Giant went into hibernation.
Second, we considered the THEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF THE MUSLIM JIHAD, discovering that the motivation for Jihad is premised upon Allah’s command to ‘submit’ the world to Islam.
Now we will survey ISLAM’S CURRENT APOCALYPTIC JIHAD in a terribly troubled world. Recently on the front page of the Wall street Journal, an artist sought to express what he called, “The Fractured Legacy of The Mapmakers”. He was indicating how fast the map of the world’s countries was changing. Clearly, the Middle East is in disarray. It is the result of numerous significant forces at work in our chaotic world. Not the least being the sporadic attacks of IS internationally and continuing the murder of civilians, especially targeting Christians & Jews.
THE SLEEPING GIANT OF ISLAM AWAKENS FROM HIBERNATION. First, remember that at the end of WW1, the Infidel Colonial Powers parceled out among themselves the dismembered Ottoman Empire. In so doing they established National Borders for countries, which up to this time did not exist. We are used to countries such as Iraq and Syria having established borders. But until the 20th C. these did not exist in the Middle East. Various Empires swept across these lands like wild fires as some strong leader brought disparate tribal peoples under their control. Tribes existed without borders. As of the end of WW1, now they do…sadly, without any reference to where the Tribes wandered or lived. This fact alone is a significant part of the current problem.
Glaring examples of this Colonial insufferable insensitivity could be… Syria and Iraq… once Greater Syria for millennia. Another is the carving up of Kurdistan among Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran to gain their oil fields. On top of this, the Colonial Overlords established ‘governments’ which turned out to be ‘Autocratic Dictatorships’ under the control of INFIDELS or foreigners in Muslim lands. When independence was gained in the 1930s, the Colonialists left Muslim Autocrats in charge, who acted as Muslim dictators operating with ‘Emergency Powers’ for decades. They employed religious police to enforce insufferable laws, raised armies and controlled the media.
THE DISCOVERY OF OIL. Oil was discovered and developed by Infidel non-Muslim outsiders. They made off with much of the bounty and kept the Muslim Leader in power to keep the oil flowing. This largess gave rise to extensive joblessness, and then became the basis for economically spreading Saudi Arabian ‘Wahabbi’ or fundamentalist Islam worldwide. Most American Mosques were thus established with Saudi trained clerics spreading Jihadi doctrine to the ten percent of Muslim who went to Mosque on Fridays.
THE ARAB SPRING. The development of Social Media worldwide became a new method of communication for the growing youth of the Middle East. This made possible skirting the Media control by dictators. They wanted jobs, education and freedom from wanton disregard of human rights. Their rioting toppled dictatorships, tragically leaving a vacuum of competent political leadership; therefore, the Muslim Brotherhood or local, tribal Strongman militias moved in to take advantage of the chaos. Sadly what followed were new Muslim tyrants seeking to establish 7th Century Sharia Law enshrined in ‘Medinan’ portions of the Quran, versus Meccan.
This meant that Democracy was Infidel & ‘unislamic’, while Sharia was Islamic. Therefore, education was unislamic & Infidel… because everything needed to be known was in the Quran. Women were not to be educated. As Islamic scholars wrestled with the problem of education in the Infidel world they were conquering, it was determined that libraries were unislamic and thousands of Infidel libraries were confiscated and destroyed. This tragedy was called by one writer: ‘The Closing of the Muslim Mind’. Even today there are only 57 universities in the entire Muslim World. Here in America we have over 5000 universities.
Western social customs were especially unislamic, but still widely imported as desired by their growing youthful societies.
THE GREAT COMMISSION OF ISLAM = JIHAD. Jihad is commanded in Islam. It is not optional. In its original form it meant the ‘STRUGGLE TO CONFORM TO SHARIA’. As Islam came more and more into contact with the Infidel world, Jihad took an excessively violent, political tenor. It was tempered only by Mohammed’s directive: offer the Infidel the opportunity to convert. If he does not… kill him. One caveat was offered to the ‘peoples of the BOOK’, the Jew and Christian: they could pay a tax and become a “protected people” called Dhimmis [virtual slaves of Islam who could practice their religion in a limited way but not proselytize].
Mohammed said, “I have been made victorious through terror”. One of their writers has said, “Allah conceived Islam as religion in Mecca. Then Mohammed transformed it into politics in Medina”.
MANY FORMS OF SHARIA. In its purest form it means to SUBMIT to Allah’s will according to the life of the Prophet, the Quran and the Hadith, as interpreted by Clerics. POLITICAL JIHAD is used by the Clerics to stir the people to undermine governments and kill Infidels. CULTURAL JIHAD, THIRD JIHAD or GRAND JIHAD means to destroy the host culture by political activism. They were to become citizens and run for political office. BUT, do not under any circumstance ‘assimilate into the culture’. Live in close association and then demand Sharia law for dissolution of any social situations
Jihad as ‘Personal Struggle to become a good Muslim’, soon deteriorates into Political Jihad. The intent is to enflame the masses to rebel against conditions, jobs or whatever. The ultimate goal is to become the dominant force in the country… Islamicize, even if it means to ‘kill the Infidel’.
Cultural Jihad is often accomplished by locating disenchanted youth and radicalize.
It should be understood that the Clerics who preach hatred for the culture and advocate violence, do not plan to participate themselves or their children.
Mark Gabriel, PHD of Al Azhar University in Egypt, wrote a book called, ISLAM AND TERRORISM in which he says, “Jihad and killing are the head of Islam”.
Mothers can also be so inhumane that they acculturate their little ones to hate those they have not met. Some are as young as 4 years. Even school curriculum encourage children to become suicide bombers. All are encouraged in the name of Allah.
Leaders are now learning to use the Internet as a recruiting tool. They teach bomb making on the Net. Westerners and Europeans are thus being radicalized. Especially starry eyed teenage girls.
Soft Jihad is including Islamic teachings in the text books of a society. They are taught to wear Islamic clothing and memorize Islamic prayers.
Global Jihad is the name of a book authored by Patrick Sookhdeo. He was a former Muslim who seeks to help the reader to understand, “The future in the Face of Militant Islam”. They plan to establish Islam as the one and only religion globally.
It is important to realize that Jihadism leads to Radicalism. It has one goal, to eliminate Infidels… Christians and Jews. They must destroy the Bible, for it proclaims Israel’s right of existence in the Land of Israel.
Islam’s objective is to rule the world. The Muslim Messiah, the Mahdi is to return along with Jesus Christ and convert the entire world to Islam. But, he will not return until the world is in complete chaos… to redeem the world for Islam
Thus, International Jihad will bring the battle to the U.S. Will we fight it over there or here?
THE CURRENT JIHADIC SCENE. There seems to be trouble everywhere. A recent Wall Street Journal ‘Map of the Middle East’ is entitled ‘the Fractured Legacy of the Mapmakers”. Islamic State [IS] is bent on removing boundaries to recreate the original boundary less Caliphate of MENA. Iraq and Syria are now labeled ‘Islamic State’. Western Syria is labeled ‘Alawistan’ for Assad’s home turf as an Alawite subset of Shia Islam. Southern Iraq is labeled, ‘Shiite Republic of Iraq’. Kurdistan is on the map again. Saudi Arabia is subdivided into, ‘Islamic Emirate of Hejaz. Yemen is now divided between: ‘Houthi Republic of Yemen and South Yemen.
The Muslim world is hopelessly divided in many ways. The Historic Divide from the time of Mohammed’s death is the Sunni/Shia sectarian divide. Iran is heartland Shia country. Saudi Arabia is heartland Sunni country. Iraq is primarily Shia, with a large Sunni area plus the northeast dominated by the Kurds. [Recall that the U.S. removed Sadam Hussein, a Sunni dictator of a primarily Shia country. Then we installed a Shia leader and left. He failed to include Sunnis and Kurds in the government. Then in came IS, a Sunni Terrorist Group and took over several key cities.
Syria is primarily Sunni with a Shia government. Militias on both sides are seeking to either unseat or destroy Assad, or prop him up. In the confusion 120,000 have died and millions have been displaced.
The Kurdish people are of Persian heritage but mainly Sunni. They have been hopelessly subdivided between primarily western Turkey, northern Syria, northern Iraq and northern Iran. They want their own Kurdistan restored, but no country wants that to happen; therefore, international help in the battle to destroy IS, is torn to arm the Peshmerga Kurdish fighters who might use the arms to cecede from Iraq and seek to reestablish Kurdistan!
OTHER DIVISIONS ARE THE AGENDAS OF THE SUNNI/SHIA DIVIDE. Each wants to rule the Muslim Ummah, but does not want to join Al Baghdadi’s self-proclaimed Caliphate. Shia Iran is using its oil money and size to arm the Shia minorities in Sunni majority countries. Syria is the prime example. They arm Assad, to keep him in power as a minority Shia autocrat. They also arm the Shia Hezbollah in Lebanon, which is primarily Sunni. They also have been arming Hamas in Gaza, whose goal is to destroy Israel.
Iran is anxious to have the sanctions lifted and the ability to produce the bomb to make their agenda happen more quickly. That agenda ultimately would be to reestablish the Old Persian Empire with their capitol in Baghdad, where it once was!
THE SAUDI AGENDA. They are using their oil money to propagate their form of fundamental Wahabbi or Salafi Islam. They have established Wahabbi Islamic mosques worldwide, especially in the U.S. Each mosque has received a Salafi trained Muslim teacher to spread fundamental Islamic doctrine of 7th C variety. Saudi Arabia is home for the two most holy sites in Islam, Mecca and Medina.
Shiites are seen as Infidels. Assad of Syria, must be deposed or destroyed; therefore, they have been financing Sunni militia of which there are numerous types.
Saudi Arabia was depending on the U.S. to keep Iran in line. The American rapproachment with Iran was seen as betrayal. Thus, they have moved toward Putin. The failure to take out Assad who crossed the ‘red line’ in Syria, now is seen as another betrayal. These actions are encouraging Saudi Arabia to approach Pakistan for nuclear arming for self preservation. Others in the Sunni world will probably follow.
THE TRIBAL DIVIDE. The Zwemer Institute has determined that there are at least 900 ethno-linguistic groups in the Muslim world. Ethnicity or Tribalism is a mindset which resists SupraNationalism. America is the prime example of people groups which were willing to forgo their personal or state nationalism for the super state: America. The Muslim world Ummah was only possible with a ‘Strong Horse Leader’ like Mohammed. He declared that he ruled by the sword. When he died, the Arabian Tribes immediately reverted back to their own strong horse leaders. The Muslim Caliphs who followed Mohammed’s death, always had the ‘sword of Damocles’ hanging over their heads. Three of the next 4 Caliphs were murdered! The tribal mentality still rules in MENA. It is my belief that only the Anti-Christ will be able to unite the disparate tribal divide of the desired Muslim Ummah in the Middle East.
THE ETHNIC DIVIDE. Similarly, the ethnic divisions in Islamic lands, akin to the Tribal divisions, are not limited to State boundaries. This fact is currently evident in Central Asian countries where numerous ethnic Russians are living. Putin is actively seeking to influence them for his own ends. In the Muslim world, there are 22 such ethnic groups.
THE NATION STATE DIVIDE. Islam has spread over many national boundaries of the 21st Century. The leadership of each nation has its own secular versus sectarian agendas.
THE INTERNAL ‘DENOMINATIONAL’ DIVIDE WITHIN ISLAM’S TWO DIVISIONS. The Sunnis have four subdivisions. The Shias also have four subdivisions.
Add to all of the above factions the INTERNATIONAL INTERFERRENCE IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES. Russia has its interest in what happens in the Muslim countries and is helping finance various militias. For instance they have a naval port in western Syria. China is building a highway through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. The European Union has interest in Turkey as a member of the EU as well as NATO. The P5+1 = [China, Fr, Russia, UK, US + Germany] are ‘concerned’? about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The UN is ‘troubled’ with how to help all the displaced persons and stop the genocide.
AND ISLAM WANTS TO CREATE A SUPRANATIONAL UMMAH OUT OF THIS DIVERSITY? Then add all the rest of the world too? Mohammed could only temporarily supranationalize the Arabian Tribes. The Muslim Empire was a hodgepodge of various nation states giving some allegiance to the Caliphate. Then, the Ottomans eventually abandoned the Caliphate. I suggest none other than the Anti-Christ himself could pull this off.
Yet, Al Baghdadi declared a new Caliphate with himself as Caliph. He named Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State. There are other confusing titles: ISIS, ISIL or Daesh. The administrative headquarters were in Raqqa, northern Syria. Raqqa, once the capitol of the Abbasid Empire in the 800s, is located on the Euphrates River and main road to Iraq & Iran.
Al Baghdadi was a tyrant, who was once in U.S captivity, and then released? His penchant to enforce 7thC. Muslim Sharia, including emulations, beheading and inhumane violence has alienated even those happy to murder for the cause. He is destroying ancient, historical religious structures as pagan. A few militias joined this well advertised effort to subvert the world. He wisely employed Generals from Sadam Hussein’s regime which the Shia government rejected. These men knew to take over the oil fields to super fund their reign of terror. Tragically, his influence has spread to the Sinai, Yemen, Gaza & Libya. Numerous reports circulated that he was seriously wounded, then killed in 2017.
WAS THIS NEW CALIPHATE THE LOOKED FOR FINAL EMPIRE AS PREDICTED IN PROPHECY? OBVIOUSLY NOT. Israel was certainly not dwelling in peace etc. But in our next session I will spell out an option for what may become of Islam in the end times. At this point may I remind us that God promised Ishmael three times over that he would become a great nation. All Arabs trace their lineage to Ishmael as the father of the Arabs. I do not believe that the promised ‘great nation’ is not Pan-Islam which we are looking at in the tragedy unfolding in the Middle East as we speak. Most of the Muslim world is not Arab. Notice Egypt, was once an early empire and would love to regain that position in Muslim World. They are Egyptians and non Arab. Look north to Turkey, the once great Ottoman Empire destroyed in 1914. They would love to regain that once proud estate. But, it too is not Arab… it is Turkic. Iran, the great 21st C. saber rattler. They too have aspiration with the nuclear option. But they are not Arab. They are Persian. So, who is left to become that end time power? The EU, once the Roman Empire to rise again? Again, they are not Arab.
I asked Google if they could find the genetically Ishmaelite Arabs of the 21st C. He did do that. They are the 10 nations in the Arabian Peninsula plus Libya and Tunisia in north Africa. Ishmael had 12 sons, did he not? Which of these Arab nations has any possibility of becoming that Great Nation promised? I suggest considering the land where nations began, Iraq. It surely doesn’t look like that could happen at the moment, but just watch. Things change overnight as shown in 2018.
CONCLUSION: The world is concerned about what the current U.S. President might do about the aspiring nations seeking nuclear ambitions. Ours is one of the major super powers that could make a difference. The Obama administration was seeking to be the nice guy by downgrading our military through the Obama Doctrine of “non-involvement” or “leading from behind”. He believed that by being the nice guy, the world will like us. Iran will certainly keep their promise of not pursuing their nuclear ambition. We will downplay our backing of Israel… the Muslim countries will be pleased and MENA will settle down. Even North Korea will abandon their nuclear pursuit. He was certain that the OBAMMA DOCTRINE WILL WORK. Just TRUST ME!
Too late perhaps [I hope not], we must learn that the Tribal Worldview only understands the Strong Horse Doctrine… nice guy loose, Strong Horse Always Wins. Al Baghdad had to be eliminated before he came here. Shias want to kill all Sunnis. Sunnis want to kill all Shias. Both want Israel gone.
Putin certainly is aspiring to feed and antagonize the Russian Big Bear to do his bidding. China certainly has aspiration to become the dominant force in the economic world.