“Live In Peace Until Strong Enough To Wage Jihad’
From The Times
September 8, 2007
Our followers ‘must live in peace until strong enough to wage jihad’
One of the world’s most respected Deobandi scholars believes that aggressive military jihad should be waged by Muslims “to establish the supremacy of Islam” worldwide.
Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani argues that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle.
His views explode the myth that the creed of offensive, expansionist jihad represents a distortion of traditional Islamic thinking.
Mr Usmani, 64, sat for 20 years as a Sharia judge in Pakistan’s Supreme Court. He is an adviser to several global financial institutions and a regular visitor to Britain. Polite and softly spoken, he revealed to The Times a detailed knowledge of world events and his words, for the most part, were balanced and considered.
He agreed that it was wrong to suggest that the entire nonMuslim world was intent on destroying Islam. Yet this is a man who, in his published work, argues the case for Muslims to wage an expansionist war against nonMuslim lands.
Mr Usmani’s justification for aggressive military jihad as a means of establishing global Islamic supremacy is revealed at the climax of his book, Islam and Modernism. The work is a polemic against Islamic modernists who seek to convert the entire Koran into “a poetic and metaphorical book” because, he says, they have been bewitched by Western culture and ideology.
The final chapter delivers a rebuke to those who believe that only defensive jihad (fighting to defend a Muslim land that is under attack or occupation) is permissible in Islam. He refutes the suggestion that jihad is unlawful against a nonMuslim state that freely permits the preaching of Islam.
For Mr Usmani, “the question is whether aggressive battle is by itself commendable or not”. “If it is, why should the Muslims stop simply because territorial expansion in these days is regarded as bad? And if it is not commendable, but deplorable, why did Islam not stop it in the past?”
He answers his own question thus: “Even in those days . . . aggressive jihads were waged . . . because it was truly commendable for establishing the grandeur of the religion of Allah.”
These words are not the product of a radical extremist. They come from the pen of one of the most acclaimed scholars in the Deobandi tradition.
Mr Usmani told The Times that Islam and Modernism was an English translation of his original Urdu book, “which at times gives a connotation different from the original”.
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When is eighty percent of the world’s population going to realize that that remaining twenty percent of the world’s population’s belief system is not compatible with civilization. Everyday they either do or say something that proves it. They keep telling us that they’re a bunch of loons. From the suburbs of Paris and their disadvantaged to the, dare I say educated in the government of Pakistan. Look at them, they say it with a smile on their faces. They really believe what they’re saying. Over the years we’ve all seen confined psychotics that “grant interviews”. They explain themselves with smiles on their faces.
September 8th, 2007 at 4:36 amThe Deobandi sect is the same sect that the Taliban belong to. And why is the West allowing these scum-bags to roam around free? We use to lock up Nazis? These guys are more Nazi than Hitler was? WTF, over?
September 8th, 2007 at 5:43 amOur spineless politicians are in such a world of denial(republicans included) as to the true intent of Islam it scares the heck out me. It will take some major loss of life here in US and then the citizenry will have to rise up and demand change, including the expulsion of all practicing muslims. There will have to be a major purge of groups like the ACLU and CAIR. I would think that a nuke going off here would do it.
Right now we as a country are on a PC, suicidal path. Republicans where unwilling to secure our own borders, even after the events of 9/11. How basic is that? Every night when I go to bed I make sure all the doors in my house are locked. Why are they so blind/greedy that they are willing to literaly sell out the future for gain today?
It’s infuriating and frustrating.
September 8th, 2007 at 7:58 amThere are no such thing as moderate muslims. Only those that are biding their time. They may not all have the balls to cut a kafir’s head off, but deep in their heart they don’t think its wrong, no matter what they say.
September 8th, 2007 at 9:22 amThe fastest way to stop the spread of this is to start knocking off these wacko’s. If you kill the radical preachers that are the indoctrinators then you produce fewer jihadists.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:08 am