PROF. PAUL EIDELBERG
I HAVE LONG ARGUED that negotiating with Muslims is an exercise in futility, and that the concept of “conflict resolution” purveyed by political science departments in the United States, Europe, and Israel is utterly foreign to Islamic mentality.
Gregory M. Davis reaches the same conclusion in a book subtitled Islam’s War Against the World (2006). He analyzes the three sources of Islam—the Koran, the Sira (the life of Mohammad), and the Hadith (traditions of Muhammad)—and demonstrates that the conflict between Islam and the West is irreconcilable.
The same conclusion appeared in a February 5, 2007 FrontPageMagazine interview of Bill Warner, director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam. The Center sees a fundamental dualism in Islam. This dualism, says Warner, begins in the Koran, “which is actually two books, the Koran of Mecca (early) and the Koran of Medina (later).” As scholars have noted, the Koran is replete with contradictions. Islam resolves these contradictions by resorting to the concept of “abrogation,” which means that the verse written later supersedes the earlier verse.
But as Warner observes, since the Koran is considered by Muslims to be the perfect word of Allah, both earlier and later verses are deemed sacred and true. The earlier verses can’t be wrong since Allah is perfect. Both verses are true in dualistic logic. The circumstances govern which verse is used.
For example: Koran of Mecca states: “Listen to what they [unbelievers] say with patience, and leave them with dignity. Koran of Medina states: “[Allah says]: “I will … give strength to the believers. I will send terror into the unbelievers’ hearts, cut off their heads and even the tips of their fingers!”
Islam rejects Western logic, which is based on the law of contradiction: if two things contradict, then at least one of them is false. Islamic logic is dualistic: two things can contradict each other and yet both are true. This dualism is the reason that the arguments about what constitutes the “real” Islam go on and on and are never resolved. “A single right answer does not exist.”
Warner considers the question: “what is the real jihad, the jihad of inner, spiritual struggle or the jihad of war?” In Bukhari, a major source of Hadith, 97% of the jihad references are about war and 3% are about the inner struggle. So the statistical answer is that jihad is 97% war and 3% inner struggle. Both sides of the duality are right.
Unfortunately, ignorance about Islam is very widespread. Warner notes that an FBI agent gets only two hours of training on Islam and most of that is how not to offend the imam! Although the U.S. is fighting in Iraq and it seems no one utilizes the political, military doctrine of Islam to plan strategy. Warner asks: Who can find a single minister who has read the Koran, Sira and Hadith? What senator, congressmen or military leader displays knowledge of the political doctrine of Islam? Try to find a course available in a college about Islamic political doctrine and ethics. Graduates read comments about the Koran and Hadith, but do not read the actual doctrine. They are not taught that Mohammed killed every single intellectual or artist who opposed him.
All of our politics and ethics, says Warner, are based upon a unitary ethic best formulated in the Golden Rule: Treat others as you would have them treat you. The Golden Rule is a unitary ethics which implies a basic equality of human beings. All religions have some version of the Golden Rule except Islam.
“The term ‘human being’,” says Warner, “has no meaning inside of Islam. There is no such thing as humanity, only the duality of the believer and unbeliever. Look at the ethical statements found in the Hadith. A Muslim should not lie, cheat, kill or steal from other Muslims. But a Muslim may lie, deceive or kill an unbeliever if it advances Islam.”
“This dualistic ethic,” says Warner, “is the basis for jihad. The ethical system sets up the unbeliever as less than human and therefore, it is easy [or morally justifiable] to kill, harm or deceive the unbeliever.” Of course unbelievers have frequently failed to apply the Golden Rule, but as Warner points out, we can be judged and condemned on its basis.
“The dualism of Islam offers two choices on how to treat the unbeliever. The unbeliever can be treated nicely, in the same way a farmer treats his cattle well. A Muslim may be “friendly,” but he is never an actual friend. And the degree to which a Muslim is actually a true friend is the degree to which he is not a Muslim, but a hypocrite.”
Islam’s dualistic logic and dualistic ethics makes it completely foreign to us. “Muslims think differently from us and feel differently from us.” Our aversion to Islam causes us to avoid learning about Islam so we are ignorant and stay ignorant.
Warner sees “there is no compromise with dualistic ethics. There is no halfway place between unitary ethics and dualistic ethics.” Hence, negotiation with Muslims is futile. Islamic ethics cannot long remain part of a multicultural society. “Islam,” says Warner, “does not assimilate, it dominates. There is never any ‘getting along’ with Islam. Its demands never cease and the demands must be met on Islam’s terms: submission”—the very meaning of the word “Islam.”
Warner emphasizes that the essence of the Koran/Sira/Hadith trilogy is predominantly political. Religion, he contends, is the smallest part of Islam’s foundational texts. He notes that Mohammed preached his religion for 13 years and garnered only 150 followers. But when he turned to politics and war, in 10 years time he became the first ruler of Arabia by averaging an event of violence every 7 weeks for 9 years. His success did not come as a religious leader, but as a political leader.”
It is almost impossible for Westerners to comprehend that Mohammad, despite his treacherous and murderous deeds as recorded in the Sira, is deemed by Muslims as the perfect man, the model for all believers!
After his death, Islam destroyed a Christian Middle East and a Christian North Africa. The research of the Center for the Study of Political Islam indicates that some 60 million Christians were slaughtered during this jihadic conquest. Half of the Hindu civilization was annihilated and 80 million Hindus killed. Jihad destroyed much of Buddhism, killing about 10 million Buddhists. Zoroastrianism was eliminated from Persia. Approximately 270 million nonbelievers died over the last 1400 years for the glory of political Islam. This history is not taught in any western schools.
Warner sees that “multiculturalism is bankrupt against Islamic totalitarianism and imperialism. The West’s culture of tolerance collapses in the face of the sacred intolerance of dualistic ethics. “Our media never reports the majority of jihad around the world. Our intellectuals don’t talk about how all of the violence is connected to a political doctrine.” Fear rules our intellectuals and artists.
The victims also find ways to blame themselves. We are to blame for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.. If we try harder Muslims will act nicer. We have to accommodate their needs. This “cultural self-loathing,” as Warner sees, “is the watchword of our intellectuals and artists.”
He warns that if we do not learn the doctrine of political Islam, our civilization will be annihilated just as Egypt’s Coptic civilization was annihilated.
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