Understanding the

radicalism of Islam

Does Islam mean Peace?

salm 'Peace'
Islm 'submission, entrusting
one's wholeness to another'
muslim 'One who submits'
Yes, it is the religion of peace but in the sense of
saving all of mankind from worshiping anything
other than Allah and submitting all of mankind to
the rule of Allah. (Islamist author Sayyid Qutb)

Quran / Koran
The true Muslim believes that the Quran is the word of
God revealed to Muhammad through the agency of
the Angel Gabriel.

Every letter in the Quran is the word of God, and

every sound in it is the true echo of Gods voice.
God has preserved the authentic Quran in Arabic
It is Muhammads standing miracle that if all mankind
were to work together they could not produce the like
of one Quranic chapter

Hadith and Sira

In Islamic terminology, the term Hadith refers to reports of
statements or actions of Muhammad, or of his tacit approval
or criticism of something said or done in his presence.
Sunni and Shia hadith collections differ because scholars from
the two traditions differ as to the reliability of the narrators and
transmitters.
Differences in hadith collections have contributed to
differences in worship practices and shari'a law and have
hardened the dividing line between the two traditions.
Muhammads biography is called the Sira

Islam is defined by the words of Allah in the Koran,

and the words and actions of Mohammed, the
Sunna
No one text of the trilogy can
stand by itself; it is not possible
to understand any one of the
texts without the other
supporting texts.
The trilogy are a seamless
whole that speak with one
voice.
The Koran says 91 times that Muhammads words and actions are
considered to be the divine pattern for humanity.

Sharia law
Sharia law is the body of Islamic law.
The term means "way" or "path"; it is the legal
framework within which the public and some
private aspects of life are regulated for those living
in a legal system based on Islam.
Each ruling or law in Sharia must be based on a
reference in the Koran or the Sunna, the perfect
example of Mohammed (found in Hadith and Sira).

Timeline: Quran, Sharia and Hadith

FROM THE SHARIA: 09.0 JIHAD

Koran 2:216 (Mohsin Khan) "Jihad (fighting in Allah's Cause) is ordained for
you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike a thing
which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah
knows but you do not know.

(Muslim 001,0031) Mohammed: I have been ordered to wage war

against mankind until they accept that there is no god but Allah and that
they believe I am his prophet and accept all revelations spoken through
me. When they do these things I will protect their lives and property unless
otherwise justified by Sharia, in which case their fate lies in Allah's hands.
(Bukhari 4,52,142) Mohammed: to battle Kafirs in Jihad for even one day
is greater than the entire earth and everything on it. A spot in paradise
smaller than your riding crop is greater than the entire earth and
everything on it. A day or a nights travel in Jihad is greater than the entire
world and everything on it.

(Reliance of the Traveler)

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF JIHAD

570
610
623
632

CE: Muhammad was born in about into a respected Quraysh family of Mecca.
CE: Muhammad received his first verbal revelation in a cave named Mount Hira
CE: Battle of Badr was the first large-scale engagement
CE: Muhammed dies in Medina

Quote: Osama bin Laden (Time 1999)

We should fully understand our religion. Fighting is a
part of our religion and our Shari'a. Those who love
God (Allah) and his Prophet and this religion cannot
deny that. Whoever denies even a minor tenet of our
religion commits the gravest sin in Islam.
The time will come, sooner rather than later, when
criminal despots who betrayed God and His Prophet,
and betrayed their trust and their nation, will face the
same fate (of having their reign overthrown).

The Caliph and the Caliphate

The caliph was often known as the "Commander of the
Believers and he ruled the Caliphate. (Islamic State)

According to Sunni Muslims, the first caliph was Ab Bakr,

followed by Umar I, Uthmn, and Al (The Four Rightly
Guided Caliphs)
Shi'a Muslims consider Ali to have been the only truly
legitimate caliph, of these four men. (Cousin of
Mohammed)
Afterwards, the Caliphate was claimed by dynasties
such as the Umayyads, the Abbasids, and the Ottomans.

What's the appeal of a Caliphate?

A significant source of the caliphate's appeal today is the
memory it stirs of Muslim greatness: "Seventy years after the
Prophet's death, this Muslim world stretched from Spain and
Morocco right the way to Central Asia and to the southern bits
of Pakistan, so a huge empire that was all under the control
of a single Muslim leader

The Islamic Golden Age is traditionally dated from the mid-8th

century to the mid-13th century at which Muslim rulers
established one of the largest empires in history.
Invoked by Islamists as a symbol of global Islamic unity

The Caliphate existed for 1300 years!

Early in the 16th Century it passed to
the Ottoman sultans, who ruled a
new Islamic world power for a
further 400 years.
When Atatrk ended it in 1924 the
Caliphate had by then existed for
nearly 1300 years, and the impact of
its abolition on Muslim intellectual life
was profound.

Muslim thinkers in the 1920s suddenly

had to ask some fundamental
questions: "Do Muslims need to live
in an Islamic State? What should
that state be like?"

Pan-Arabism
By the mid 20th Century leaders like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser had
come up with an answer to those questions - the ideology known as panArabism offered a kind of secular caliphate,

"Pan Arabism drew its legitimacy from the fact that it was going to return
the Arabs to their position of glory and liberate Palestine,
"When we had the abject defeat of 1967 (the Six Day War) it exposed a
hollowness to the ideology."
"When people talk about a caliphate they are talking about a leader
who's accountable, about justice and accountability according to
Islamic law,"
"That stands in stark contrast to the motley crew of dictators, kings, and
oppressive state-security type regimes you have, which have no popular
legitimacy at all."

Restoration of the Caliphate / Khilafat

The West has been forced to continuously resort to devious means, including
brute force and barbarism in present-day Iraq and Afghanistan, to thwart the
effort to restore Islam as the basis of polity (geographic area with a
corresponding government).

Will Muslim society be secularized and constitutional democracy finally

established in the Muslim world? Or, will destiny witness the restoration of the
Islamic Khilafat?
When a people turn away from God, as they most certainly do in political
secularism and the secular State, the Quran has warned that they would
eventually forget Him and would pay the price of forgetting themselves (i.e.,
their human status).
Prophet Muhammad prophesied that they would eventually engage in sexual
intercourse in public like donkeys. There is an abundance of evidence that
mainstream society in this progressive modern age is heading down that road
and is already approaching the fulfillment of the prophecy of roadside sex.

ISIL (ISIS / IS)

The Islamic State (an offshoot of al Qaeda)
declared itself a caliphate in June 2014, and
its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi claimed the
title of caliph. Al-Baghdadi has insisted that
pledging allegiance to this caliphate was a
religious obligation on all Muslims
IS has skilfully exploited the elements in the caliphate's history which best
serve its purposes. The black uniforms and flags deliberately echo the black
robes the Abbasids adopted as their court dress in the 8th Century, thus
recalling Islam's Golden Age.

The original title - the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - harks back to the
days when both territories were part of the great Islamic caliphate.
The success of IS reflects what a powerful and urgent aspiration the
Caliphate has become.

The Black Flags

The black banner of Islam as an idea goes back
to the 8th century, when the Abbasids - The
second great Islamic dynasty (Caliphate) 7501258 AD came to power with black banners
The white writing at the top of the flag is the first half the shahada, which
reads: There is no god but Allah

The white circle at its center, which contains the second part of the
shahada: "Muhammad is the Messenger of God." Its meant to represent
the official seal of the Prophet Muhammad
There is a hadith in Sunan Tirmidhi and it states:
"When you see black banners coming from the direction of Khorasaan, you
go and join them even if you have to crawl over ice". And it continues to state
that "For it is that army that will liberate the holy land (Jerusalem) and no force
will be able to stop that army because he is the Khalifah of Allah, the Mahdi."

The coming of the Mahdi (Sunni)

The term "MAHDI" is a title meaning "rightly-guided one" or "one who is
rightly-guided". The Mahdi will be very just and his capital will be in
Jerusalem.
After he is given allegiance as the Caliph in Mecca, he will lead Muslims
to a great victory against the tyrants in the Arabian peninsula, al-Sham
(the Levant) and Egypt, in six years, thus establishing his rule over the
region.
Following this would be the Great war ("Armageddon"), which will end
up with a great victory for the Muslims. Six years after the war begins,
Muslims would conquer Rome without the use of a single weapon.
Then the Dajjal (false Messiah) will appear and a greater war will start
and will end when the Messiah, 'Eyssa ("Jesus") son of Maryam ("Mary")
descends from Heaven and slays the Dajjal along with his followers.

Prophet Jesus: the True Messiah (Sunni)

Al Mahdi and his men will make their stand in the Mosque of Jerusalem.
They will be under siege by the army of the false-messiah. Allah will then
send Prophet Jesus to Al Mahdi, who will descend from heaven.

Al Mahdi will to ask Prophet Jesus to lead the prayer. However, Prophet
Jesus will decline saying that the prayer has been established for Al Mahdi
to lead.
Prophet Jesus then slays the false-messiah. The followers of the anti-Christ
will scatter far and wide; the siege will be over and Prophet Jesus will
receive the Caliphate.
Prophet Jesus, will reject and correct the falsities introduced into
Christianity and follow the way of Prophet Muhammad, praise and peace
be upon him. He will marry, father children and when he dies, he will be
buried next to Prophet Muhammad, in Medina.

The 12th Iman / Mahdi (Shiite)

The 12th Imam is said to be a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad,
having divine status. The 12th Imam is also called the Hidden Imam and the
Mahdi (guided one).
Most accounts of the story say that al Mahdi went into hiding as a child
around the age of 5 years (about 13th Century). This event is known as The
Occultation. He will supernaturally return just before the Day of Judgment.
Imam al-Mahdi will reappear when the world has fallen into chaos and civil
war emerges between the human race for no reason. At this time, it is
believed, half of the true believers will ride from Yemen carrying white flags
to Mecca, while the other half will ride from Iraq, carrying black flags to
Mecca. At this time, Imam al-Mahdi will come wielding `Ali's Sword, Zulfiqar
the Double-Bladed Sword.
Jesus will also come (after Imam Mahdi's re-appearance) and follow the
Imam Mahdi to destroy tyranny and falsehood and to bring justice and
peace to the world.

Judgment Day will come only when

the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them
Hamas Covenant 1988: The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement
The Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise,
no matter how long that should take.
The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews
(killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones
and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come
and kill him. (related by Bukhari and Muslim).
The Slogan of the Islamic Resistance Movement:
"Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is
its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes"

Summary: Caliphate, Jihad, Sharia & Mahdi

The Islamic ideal is the establishment of the Caliphate and a Caliph.

Most Muslims await a messianic figure (Mahdi) to arise and restore justice
and prosperity
The 8th Century is taken as an example of how Allah will bless (with victory)
those who live according to Islamic Law (Sharia) in an Islamic State.
The Islamists see opponents of an Islamic State to be as motivated by
humanist ideals, the corruption of wealth and the spread of immorality
which are placed above the laws of God.

The teachings and life of Mohammed give an example for the way for an
armed jihad is to be pursued.
The End-Time prophetic statements are about a continual armed war
against the kaffir (unbelievers) with an eventual Islamic victory.

The Worlds Muslims: Unity and Diversity

Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia

Many Muslim adults say they believe the return of the

Mahdi will occur in their lifetime, including at least twothirds who express this view in Afghanistan (83%), Iraq
(72%), Turkey (68%), Tunisia (67%) and Pakistan (60%).
Belief in the imminent return of Jesus is also
widespread; The conviction that Jesus will return soon
is most widespread in Tunisia (67%), Turkey (65%), Iraq
(64%) and Pakistan (55%)
2012 report by the Pew Research Center

Religious fundamentalism among native

Christians and Muslim immigrants in W. Europe

Six-Country Immigrant Integration Comparative Survey (SCIICS) 2008

The Muslim Brotherhoods Strategic Goal

Court Document: 2008 Holyland Terror Funding Trial
Page 4: Enablement of Islam in North America, meaning:
presenting Islam as a civilization alternative, and supports the
global Islamic State wherever it is.
Page 7: The process of settlement is a Civilization-Jihadist
Process with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim
Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a
kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western
civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house
by their hands and the hands of the believers

08.0 APOSTASY FROM ISLAM (RIDDA)

(0: Leaving Islam is the ugliest form of unbelief (kufr) and the
worst.
08.1 When a person who has reached puberty and is sane
voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed.

08.7 (0: Among the things that entail apostasy from Islam (may
Allah protect us from them) are:
(7) to deny any verse of the Koran or anything which by
scholarly consensus (def: b7) belongs to it, or to add a verse
that does not belong to it;
(20) or to deny that Allah intended the Prophet's message to be
the religion followed by the entire world

(Reliance of the Traveler)

Sources of Islamic Radicalism

Fundamentalistic belief in the
Quran as the Word of God

Shariah Law as greater than

any mans (i.e. than that of
any countrys) law
The example set by
Muhammed as a Warrior of
Jihad
Establishment of the Caliphate
(Islamic State) by the Mahdi
Belief in the Islamic End-Time
prophetic statements

Backup Slides

Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam

ARTICLE 1:
(a) All human beings form one family whose members are united by their
subordination to Allah and descent from Adam.
(b) All human beings are Allah's subjects, and the most loved by Him are
those who are most beneficial to His subjects, and no one has superiority
over another except on the basis of piety and good deeds
ARTICLE 24:
All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the
Islamic Shari'ah.

ARTICLE 25:
The Islamic Shari'ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or
clarification of any of the articles of this Declaration.

Five Pillars of Islam

The Quran and traditions associated with Muhammad have defined five core rituals through which
individuals can profess and confirm their adherence to the Islamic faith.
Collectively, these practices are known as the Five Pillars :

Profession of faith , or shahadah. By testifying that there is one God, and Muhammad is His
Prophet, an individual distinguishes himself or herself as a Muslim.

Praying , or salat. Muslims are supposed to pray five times a day at dawn, noon, mid - afternoon,

sunset and evening. The shahadah is repeated at each call t o prayer and closes each prayer as well.

Giving of alms , or zakat. All adult Muslims who are able to do so are required to make an annual
donation to assist the poor or less fortunate. The amount is typically 2.5% of a persons total wealth, not
just annual income.

Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, or sawm. Throughout the month of Ramadan, when the
Quran was first revealed, all physically fit Muslim adults are to abstain from food, drink , smoking and
sexual activity from dawn to dusk.

Pilgrimage to Mecca , or hajj. At least once in a lifetime, Muslims who are physically and
financially capable of making the journey are expected to visit Islams holiest city, Mecca, and
perform rituals associated with the hajj.

Head of Islamic State protected by Sharia

Law #914 C from Codified Islamic Law Vol 3 - Head of
Islamic State cannot be charged for Hudood cases
(murder, theft, robbery, adultery, drinking etc.). The same
law is in Hanafi Law page 188 too.
Hasan Mahmud, the Director of Sharia Law of the Muslim
Canadian Congress. He played a vital role in the successful
movement against the Toronto Sharia Court. The court had
been established in 1991 (and functioning since then) with
the blessing of Ontario law and was banned in 2003 when
the Ontario Government enacted a new law banning all
faith-courts.