Defensive Warfare Quotes
He was one of the world’s greatest polymaths who among his other accomplishments was the “Father of Sociology” and was the leading Islamic intellectual of his era. This is a very important quotation because ibn Khalidun was such a monumental and respected Islamic intellect. He confirms the history that Islam was spread both by persuasion and by force. He also makes the distinction between Islam and other religions regarding war, Finally, the last sentence characterizes Islam as an aggressive, expansionist force that is a potential danger to all non-Muslim states.
This particular quotation is very important. Khomeini was probably the most influential Muslim in the 20th Century. The fact that he wrote this in 1942—before there was an Israel as an enemy—shows how deep seated the requirement for world conquest is. To the Nazi’s world conquest was a justifiable goal. To Khomeini and his many followers, it is a religious obligation and duty and thus is every more dangerous. Extreme anti Muslims justify the attempted expulsion of Muslim immigrants on the grounds that they are a fifth column whose loyalty is and will be to the religion which will attempt to conquer their country. It gives Islamaphobia a veneer of respectability.
Describing the conquest and destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70 AD.
This quotation is interesting for two reasons. First, it is one of the few fatwas that recognize women to make a decision that might be against her husband’s wishes—a rarity in Islam which is even more sexist than traditional Western religions. Second, and more important, this fatwa is often used by Muslim fundamentalist terrorists to justify the use of women as suicide bombers. Even with a modern Islamist like al-Qaradawi, the obligation to defend with life if necessary any Muslim nation (right or wrong) is paramount and justifies almost anything else that otherwise might not be permitted. This is very different from most of the rest of the world where national interests are rarely perceived as religious and most attacks on a country have nothing to do with religion but with vested interests.
