Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me (35 page)

CHAPTER 3

1
Theodore Roosevelt, “The Great Adventure,”
Metropolitan Magazine,
October 1918, quoted in “‘Great Adventure’ Roosevelt’s Topic: Fate of His Son the Basis for a Moving Tribute to Our Soldier Dead,”
New York Times,
September 17, 1918,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04EEDC1531E433A25754C1A96F9C946996D6CF
.

2
F. A. Hayek,
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism,
ed. W W. Bartley III (University of Chicago Press, 1988), pp. 139-40.

3
Patt Morrison, “Feminism’s Freedom Fighter: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Has Put Her Life on the Line to Defend Women against Radical Islam,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 17, 2009,
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/17/opinion/oe-morrison17
.

4
The Pledge of Allegiance is as follows: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

5
Thomas Jefferson to Martin Van Buren, 1824, ME 16:55,
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0200.htm
.

6
Leszek Kolakowski, “Politics & the Devil,”
Encounter
(London), December 1987,
http://www.unz.org/Pub/Encounter-1987dec-00059?View=PDF
.

7
Ibid.

8
Ronald Reagan, California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech, Sacramento, CA, January 5, 1967,
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/govspeech/01051967a.htm
.

9
Some Muslims claim that the exact date was August 10, 610, see “Basic Knowledge about the Life of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Questions and Answers,” HubPages,
http://knowledgebox.hubpages.com/hub/Holy-Prophet-PBUH-Life-and-Achievements-a-brief-History-Question-and-Answers

10
The word
Muslim,
like the word
Islam,
is derived from the Arabic verbal root SLM, “submit.”

11
Qadr
is the Arabic word for “power”;
Al-Ilah
is the Arabic word for “the god”; and
Qu’ran
is the Arabic word for “recitation.”

12
Koran 96:1-5.

13
Koran 68:1.

14
Alfred Guillaume,
Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah
(Oxford University Press, 1955), p. 107.

15
Paul Johnson,
A History of the Jews
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987), p. 166.

16
Karen Armstrong,
Islam: A Short History
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000), p. 11.

17
Guillaume,
Life of Muhammad,
p. 107.

18
Koran 21:5, 36:69, 37:36, 52:30.

19
Koran 15:6, 23:70, 34:8, 34:46, 37:36, 44:14, 52:29, 68:2, 68:51, 81:22.

20
Koran 53:19-23.

21
Guillaume,
Life of Muhammad,
p. 131.

22
Koran 2:61, 3:110, 4:160-61, 5:12, 5:51, 5:57, 5:63-66, 9:30, etc.

23
Koran 3:110, 5:14, 5:51, 5:57-60, 5:66, 5:75, etc.

24
Koran 2:256.

25
Benedict XVI, “Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and Reflections,” lecture of the Holy Father given at Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany, September 12, 2006,
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html
.

26
Johnson,
A History of the Jews,
pp. 166-67.

27
Koran 33:37-38.

28
Koran 8:12.

29
Koran 2:216. Other bellicose verses are suras 2:191-93, 3:157-58, 3:169—71, 4:74, 4:76, 8:15-16, 8:39-42, 8:65, 9:5-6, 9:14, 9:29-30, 9:39, 9:41, 9:73, 9:111, 9:123, 10:4-15, 25:52, 46:9, 47:4-15, etc.

30
Kolakowski, “Politics & the Devil.”

31
Koran 8:1.

32
Koran 8:67.

33
Guillaume,
Life of Muhammad,
pp. 675-76.

34
Koran 3:152.

35
Guillaume,
Life of Muhammad,
p. 327.

36
Ibid., p. 515. Hadith Sahih Bukhari 5:59:512.

37
Koran 69:30-35.

38
Koran 5:33.

39
Guillaume,
Life of Muhammad,
pp. 461-64.

40
Theodore Roosevelt, “A Confession of Faith,” speech delivered at Chicago, IL, August 6, 1912,
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/roosevelt-theodore_on-the-land-question.html
.

41
Theodore Roosevelt,
Fear God and Take Your Own Part
(George H. Doran Company, 1916).

42
Ibid.

43
Adolf Hitler, August 28, 1942. Quoted in
Hitler’s Table Talk; 1941—1944,
trans. N. Cameron and R. H. Stevens (Enigma Books, 1953), p. 667.

44
Albert Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
(Simon & Schuster, 1997), chapter 6.

45
Himmler to Kersten, December 1, 1942, in Felix Kersten,
Totenkopf und Treue: Heinrich Himmler ohne Uniform
(Robert Mölich Verlag, 1952), pp. 206-8.

46
Koran 44:54, 52:20.

47
Felix Kersten,
Totenkopf und Treue: Heinrich Himmler ohne Uniform,
p. 203.

48
Peter Longerich,
Heinrich Himmler: Biographie
(Siedler Verlag, 2008), p. 277. The original document of November 26, 1944 is available in the Federal Archives in Berlin (Bundesarchiv Berlin, BAB), file NS 19/4013.

49
Koran 2:223.

50
Mervyn Hiskett,
Some to Mecca Turn to Pray: Islamic Values in the Modern World
(Claridge Press, 1993), p. 117.

51
Felix Kersten,
Totenkopf und Treue: Heinrich Himmler ohne Uniform,
p. 226.

52
Koran 7:166.

53
Koran 2:65.

54
Koran 5:60.

55
Quoted in David G. Dalin, “Hitler’s Mufti,”
First Things; A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life,
August/September 2005,
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/hitler8217s-mufti-29
.

56
Quoted in Jeffrey Herf,
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust
(Harvard University Press, 2006), p. 181.

57
Johann von Leers in a letter to the American Nazi H. Keith Thompson, November 1957. Quoted in Andrew Bostom, “Tariq Ramadan’s Appointment at Leiden Uni: An Insult to Huizinga’s Anti-Nazi Legacy,” Islam Watch, November 8, 2007,
http://www.islam-watch.org/Bostom/Tariq-Ramadan-at-Leiden-University.htm
.

58
Koran 5:51; also Koran 3:28.

59
Koran 9:5.

60
Hadith Sahih Bukhari 4:52:177; also Hadith Sahih Muslim 41:6985.

61
Ali Sina, “Muslims Pooh Pooh the Golden Rule,” Faith Freedom International, October 8, 2005,
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina51007.htm
.

62
See, for example, Koran 3:18, 5:72, 8:13-14, 8:55, 9:7, 9:23, 9:28, 9:101, 25:55, 58:23, 60:4, etc.

CHAPTER 4

1
“Schoolgirls die in Mecca stampede,” BBC News (London), March 11, 2002,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1867039.stm
.

2
Mutaween
is the Arabic word for “volunteers.”

3
“Saudi police ‘stopped’ fire rescue,” BBC News (London), March 15, 2002,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1874471.stm
.

4
Hadith Sahih Bukhari 1:9:490.

5
Dahlia Mogahed, “The Battle for Hearts and Minds; Moderate vs. Extremist Views in the Muslim World. A Gallup World Poll Special Report,” Gallup Organization, 2006,
http://media.gallup.com/WorldPoll/PDF/ExtremismInMuslimWorld.pdf
.

6
“Muslim leader blames women for sex attacks,”
Australian
(Sydney), October 26, 2006,
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/muslim-leader-blames-women-for-sex-attacks/story-e6frg6nf-1111112419114
.

7
Ibid.

8
Winston Churchill,
The River War
(Longmans, Green & Co., 1899), vol. 2, p. 248.

9
Koran 4:3, 23:1,5,6, 33:49-51.

10
Koran 2:282.

11
Koran 4:11.

12
Koran 4:34.

13
Koran 24:31.

14
Koran 24:30.

15
Koran 4:15.

16
Josh Wingrove, Jim Wilkes and Bob Mitchell, “Teen died of strangulation,”
Toronto Star
(Toronto), December 12, 2007,
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/284823
.

17
Tanya Eiserer, “Slain Lewisville sisters mourned at Christian, Muslim services,”
Dallas Morning News,
January 6, 2008, formerly available at
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/010608dnmetfunerals.216ceab.html
; article is available at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/63791943/Slain-Lewisville-Sisters-Mourned-at-Christian-Muslim-Services-By-TANYA-EISERER
.

18
Stine Jensen, “Eerwraak is een Nederlands fenomeen,”
NRC Handelsblad
(Rotterdam), June 6, 2008,
http://www.nrcboeken.nl/column/eerwraak-is-een-nederlands-fenomeen
.

19
“Antwerpse ‘imam’ in cel voor doodslag en marteling,”
Gazet van Antwerpen
(Belgium), October 28, 2009,
http://www.gva.be/antwerpen/
antwerpen/antwerpse-imam-in-de-cel-voor-marteling-en-dood-18-jarige-laila. aspx.

20
“The Death of a Muslim Woman. ‘The Whore Lived Like a German,’”
Der Spiegel
(Berlin), March 2, 2005,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,344374,00.html
.

21
“‘Honour killing’ father begins sentence,” BBC News (London), September 30, 2003,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3149030.stm
.

22
Alistair MacDonald, “Afghan Immigrants in Canada Found Guilty of Honor Killing,”
Wall Street Journal,
January 30, 2012,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203920204577191321206664022.html
.

23
Joe Warmington, “Shafia Called Girls ‘Filthy Rotten Children,’ Wife Testifies,”
Ottawa Sun
(Ottawa), January 10, 2012,
http://www.ottawasun. com/2012/01/10/shafia-mom-said-she-lied-to-protect-son
.

24
Christie Blatchford, “A Dozen Officials Didn’t Know How to Help Desperate ‘Honour Killing’ Shafia Sisters,”
National Post
(Toronto), November 24, 2011,
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/11/24/christie-blatchford-officials-help-never-enough-to-save-desperate-shafia-girls/
.

25
Robert Fulford, “Robert Fulford: Too Much Sensitivity Doomed the Shafia Girls,”
National Post
(Toronto), November 26, 2011,
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/11/26
robert-fulford-too-much-sensitivity-doomed-the-shafia-girls /.

26
P. J. Gladnick, “NBC, AP Avoid ’M-word’ in Report About ‘Honor Killings,’” NewsBusters, January 30, 2012,
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2012/01/30/nbc-ap-avoid-m-word-report-about-honor-kill
ings.

27
Birgit Schwarz, “Der Koran ist überflüssig,” interview with Taslima Nasrin,
Der Spiegel
(Hamburg), June 13, 1994.

28
Koran 8:12, 8:60, 33:26, and 59:2.

29
Churchill,
The River War,
vol. 2, pp. 248-50.

30
Ibid.

31
Koran 6:99.

32
Fanous, “Who Burned the Historic Bibliotheca Alexandrina?”
Independent Copt,
October 5, 2006,
http://english.freecopts.net/english//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=343
; and
http://www.faithfreedom.org/articles/op-ed/did-omar-order-the-burning-of-alexandria-library/
.

33
Paul Johnson,
A History of the Jews
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987), p. 188.

34
Moses Maimonides, Epistle to the Jews of Yemen, written in 1172. Quoted in Andrew Bostom,
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History
(Prometheus Books, 2008), p. 11.

35
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on A New Beginning,” Cairo University, Egypt, June 4, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/
.

36
“NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations with Muslim World,” Fox News, July 5, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better-relations-muslims/
.

37
Thomas Cahill,
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), pp. 208-9.

38
Sylvain Gouguenheim,
Aristote au mont Saint-Michel: Les racines grecques de l’Europe chrétienne
(Editions du Seuil, 2008).

39
Sylvain Gouguenheim, quoted in John Vinocur, “Europe’s debt to Islam given a skeptical look,”
New York Times,
April 28, 2008,
http://www.nytimes
. com/2008/04/28/world/europe/28iht-politicus.2.12398698.html?_r=1.

40
Horst Junginger, “Sigrid Hunke: Europe’s New Religion and its Old Stereotypes,” manuscript of a paper given at a workshop at the international workshop “Neo-Paganism, ‘voelkische Religion’ and Antisemitism II: The Religious Roots of Stereotypes,” Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany, October 1997,
http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/gerd.simon/hunke.htm
.

41
Sigrid Hunke,
Allahs Sonne über dem Abendland: Unser arabisches Erbe
[Allah’s Sun Over the Occident: Our Arab Heritage] (Deutsche Verlag-anstalt, Stuttgart, Germany, 1960).

42
Colin Wells,
Sailing from Byzantium: How a lost Empire shaped the world
(Delta Press, 2006).

43
“Algebra” is derived from the Arabic
al-jabr,
which means “transposition,” i.e., the transposition of subtracted terms to the other side of an equation. The term was used in the title of the book
Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala
[The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing] by the Persian mathematician Muhammad al-Khwarizmi. The book is indebted to earlier works of Indian Hindu mathematicians and astronomers, such as
Brabmagupta
(598-668). As for “algorithm,” the word is derived from the name of the Persian mathematician Muhammad al-Khwarizmi, known in the West as Algoritmi (c.780—c.850).

44
Deuteronomy 22:22; Leviticus 20:10.

45
John 8:7.

46
Alfred Guillaume,
Life of Muhammad: A translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah
(Oxford University Press, 1955), p. 267.

47
Hadith Sahih Bukhari 4:56:829. Also in Guillaume,
Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah,
p. 267.

48
“Abolish Stoning and Barbaric Punishment Worldwide,” International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany,
http://www.ishr.org/index.php?id=857
. And “Human Rights in the United Arab Emirates,” Amnesty International Report, 2007, London, UK, 2007,
http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/uae/report-2007
.

49
“Aceh passes adultery stoning law,” BBC News (London), September 14, 2009,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8254631.stm
. And “Malaysian state passes Islamic law,” BBC News (London), July 8, 2002,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2116032.stm
.

50
“Rape Victim Stoned to Death in Somalia Was 13, U.N. Says,”
New York Times,
November 4, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/world/africa/05somalia.html
.

51
Koran 24:13.

52
Hannah Block Kohat, “Blaming the Victim,”
Time,
May 20, 2002,
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,238673,00.html
.

53
Ibn Warraq, “Islam, Middle East and Fascism,”
New English Review,
August 15, 2006,
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=3766&sec_id=3766
.

54
Koran 5:6.

55
Koran 33:40.

56
Koran 33:21.

57
Koran 16:74, 42:11.

58
Koran 3:31, 4:80, 24:62, 48:10, 57:28.

59
Koran 112:1-4.

60
Koran 2:213.

61
Fitra
is the Arabic word for “instinct” or “intuition.”

62
Hadith Sahih Bukhari 2:23:441.

63
Koran 5:56.

64
Soeren Kern, “France Bans Muslim Street Prayers,” Stonegate Institute, September 20, 2011,
http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2435/france-bans-muslim-street-prayers
.

65
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, “Spending Zakah Money on Jihad,” OnIslam. net, March 9, 2011,
http://www.onislam.net/english/ask-the-scholar/
international-relations-and-jihad/jihad-rulings-and-regulations/174504-spending-zakah-money-on-jihad. html?Regulations.

66
Hadith Sunan Abu Dawud 13:2381.

67
Hadith Sunan Abu Dawud 13:2380.

68
Koran 57:21.

69
Koran 9:51.

70
Koran 54:49.

71
Koran 3:145.

72
Koran 14:4.

73
Ibn Warraq, “Islam, Middle East and Fascism,”
New English Review,
August 15, 2006,
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage. cfm?frm=3766&sec_id=3766
.

74
Mervyn Hiskett,
Some to Mecca Turn to Pray: Islamic Values in the Modern World
(Claridge Press, 1993), p. 294.

75
Aldous Huxley, “In a Tunisian Oasis,”
The Christmas Bookman
(George H. Donan Company, December 1925).

76
Koran 9:111.

77
Salman Rushdie,
The Satanic Verses
(Viking Press, 1988), p. 213.

78
Rania Abouzeid, “Bouazizi: The Man Who Set Himself and Tunisia on Fire,”
Time,
January 21, 2011,
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2044723,00.html
.

79
“Update on the Size of Protests in Cairo,” Pacific Rim Trading, February 1, 2011,
http://www.pacificrimcoins.com/pacrim/content/update-size-protests-cairo
.