Muslims must share spoils of war. Fundamentalist adherents of Islam believe Allah has given them the earth’s land and wealth and it is their sacred duty to seize all of it. Fighters may not, however, keep all plunder acquired in war. Twenty percent must be given to the military commander, who is expected to use a portion of it to support orphans and the poor. “And know that out of all the booty that you may acquire (in war), a fifth share is assigned to Allah, and to the Messenger, and to near relatives, orphans, the needy, and the wayfarer…” (Qur’an 8:41).
Muslims who refuse to fight must be punished. In the Hadiths, Muhammad commands Muslims to kill Muslims who refuse to fight, and Allah promises to punish those who refuse to fight in the afterlife. Islamists have long used Qur’anic verses to threaten imams who are not yet teaching jihad or recruiting fighters. Saudi Arabian Wahhabi Muslims bribe moderate imams everywhere with cash and, when necessary, threaten them with violence if they refuse to support global jihad.
Females must be subjugated. The Qur’an commands females to “guard their modesty” and to “obey their husbands.” Over the centuries, Muslim men have twisted these passages to assert insane levels of control over females. Morality police roam the streets and beat females who violate modesty laws with sticks. Husbands demand unquestioned obedience; they deny wives and daughters an education; beat them on a whim; confine them to their homes; force girls as young as nine to marry older men; and, above all, make certain family females maintain their virginity until their wedding night. Muslim females must obey allmales in their family who have reached puberty; mothers must obey their 12-year-old sons.
Muslim wives convicted of unfaithfulness must be stoned to death. To prevail in Sharia court, women who are raped must produce four male witnesses. A Muslim man may divorce any or all of his wives by simply saying the words “I divorce you” three times.
One of the most brutal practices of Islam went virtually unnoticed until Ayaan Hirsi Ali published Infidel and Nomad. She was born to Muslim parents in Somalia. Only through savvy and fierce determination was she able to escape the horrors of Islam. She knows first-hand the plight of young girls who suffer female genital mutilation (FGM). She estimates that millions of Muslim girls have had their clitoris and inner labia removed, often with kitchen knives, and the opening of their outer labia sewn together with ordinary needle and thread. In northern Africa more than 90 percent of Muslim girls are victims of this practice, which began with a single offhand comment by Muhammad, “Sexual partners must bathe after their ‘circumcised parts’ touch.” In December 2012 the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 67/146 to ban FGM worldwide. Two thirds of the General Assembly sponsored the resolution, including the entire African Group. The United States banned the practice in 1996 and strengthened the prohibition in January 2013 (US Code 8, USC 116). As of year’s end 2017, twenty-four states in the US had criminalized FGM. Devout Muslims still defend this insane practice by claiming that the female’s insatiable desires must be curtailed by making sex painful or at least unpleasant.
True Muslims must be hospitable to wayfarers and strangers. Islam holds that Muslims should treat wayfarers kindly, and Muslims throughout the world are known for their hospitality. Most welcome traveling Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
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