The Achtiname of Muhammad – 626 AD
They may have a profitable business model, but ISIS and other Muslim extremists who persecute Christians are disobeying a direct order from Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
Specifically, in 626 AD, Muhammad issued The Achtiname of Muhammad, also known as the Covenant or (Holy) Testament (Testamentum) of the Prophet Muhammad.
The Achtiname – shown above – ordered Muslims to protect and defend Christians, and condemned as sinners Muslims who mistreated Christians:
This is a letter which was issued by Mohammed, Ibn Abdullah, the Messenger, the Prophet, the Faithful, who is sent to all the people as a trust on the part of God to all His creatures, that they may have no plea against God hereafter. Verily God is the Mighty, the Wise. This letter is directed to the embracers of Islam, as a covenant given to the followers of Nazarene [i.e. Christians] in the East and West, the far and near, the Arabs and foreigners, the known and the unknown.
This letter contains the oath given unto them, and he who disobeys that which is therein will be considered a disobeyer and a transgressor to that whereunto he is commanded. He will be regarded as one who has corrupted the oath of God, disbelieved His Testament, rejected His Authority, despised His Religion, and made himself deserving of His Curse, whether he is a Sultan or any other believer of Islam. Whenever monks, devotees and pilgrims gather together, whether in a mountain or valley, or den, or frequented place, or plain, or church, or in houses of worship, verily we are [at the] back of them and shall protect them, and their properties and their morals, by Myself, by My Friends and by My Assistants, for they are of My Subjects and under My Protection.
I shall exempt them from that which may disturb them; of the burdens which are paid by others as an oath of allegiance. They must not give anything of their income but that which pleases them—they must not be offended, or disturbed, or coerced or compelled. Their judges should not be changed or prevented from accomplishing their offices, nor the monks disturbed in exercising their religious order, or the people of seclusion be stopped from dwelling in their cells.
No one is allowed to plunder the pilgrims, or destroy or spoil any of their churches, or houses of worship, or take any of the things contained within these houses and bring it to the houses of Islam. And he who takes away anything therefrom, will be one who has corrupted the oath of God, and, in truth, disobeyed His Messenger.
Poll-taxes should not be put upon their judges, monks, and those whose occupation is the worship of God; nor is any other thing to be taken from them, whether it be a fine, a tax or any unjust right. Verily I shall keep their compact, wherever they may be, in the sea or on the land, in the East or West, in the North or South, for they are under My Protection and the testament of My Safety, against all things which they abhor.
No taxes or tithes should be received from those who devote themselves to the worship of God in the mountains, or from those who cultivate the Holy Lands. No one has the right to interfere with their affairs, or bring any action against them. Verily this is for aught else and not for them; rather, in the seasons of crops, they should be given a Kadah for each Ardab of wheat (about five bushels and a half) as provision for them, and no one has the right to say to them this is too much, or ask them to pay any tax.
As to those who possess properties, the wealthy and merchants, the poll-tax to be taken from them must not exceed twelve drachmas a head per year [according to Wikipedia, about 200 modern U.S. dollars].
They shall not be imposed upon by anyone to undertake a journey, or to be forced to go to wars or to carry arms; for the Islams have to fight for them. Do no dispute or argue with them, but deal according to the verse recorded in the Koran, to wit: ‘Do not dispute or argue with the People of the Book but in that which is best’ [29:46]. Thus they will live favored and protected from everything which may offend them by the Callers to religion (Islam), wherever they may be and in any place they may dwell.
Should any Christian woman be married to a Musulman [i.e. Muslim], such marriage must not take place except after her consent, and she must not be prevented from going to her church for prayer. Their churches must be honored and they must not be withheld from building churches or repairing convents.
They must not be forced to carry arms or stones; but the Islams must protect them and defend them against others. It is positively incumbent upon every one of the Islam nation not to contradict or disobey this oath until the Day of Resurrection and the end of the world.
(This is the Haddad translation; other translations here.)
ISIS and other Islamic terrorists are not true Muslims, and they have disobeyed a direct order of Muhammad.
No wonder the majority of Muslims all over the world condemn them.
"They may have a profitable business model, but ISIS and other Muslim extremists who persecute Christians are disobeying a direct order from Muhammad, the founder of Islam."
This is the sort of dishonest crap we have to put up with on the MSM.
1) Those rules are about the treatment of Jews and Christians in Islam after they have surrendered to the muslims and have accepted dhimmi status. The rules about what is allowed before they have surendered are quite explicit and Isis is following those rules to the letter. The rules that apply before Christians and Jews have surrenderd say kill the men and take the women as slaves.
Anyone who doesn't believe this can go and read it for themselves. The sections related to war against the infidels are quite short.
2) Also the rules for Christians who have surrendered are being misinterpreted here. Dhimmi Christians living in an Islamic state have to pay a head tax. This varied from place to place over time but for example in the Balkans during the Ottoman empire the Christian tax was their first born son (who were sent to Turkey to be slave soldiers called janissaries).
(The black version of the same thing were called ghulams.)
(This was how they got the poor to convert and why the surviving Christian minorities were often the merchants who could afford to pay.)
What the religious order referenced in this article is saying is that people who live by God i.e priests, monks, nuns etc should be exceptions.
3) The rules for Jews and Christians after they have surrendered don't apply to non Christians and Jews at all. It's prefectly acceptable in the Koran that groups like this e.g. Yazidis, Hindus, Buddhists, Atheists, can all be killed and/or enslaved.
Similarly the dhimmi rules don't apply to Christians or Jews who don't surrender. As long as they don't surrender they can be killed or enslaved.
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Isis were obviously created by USUK and their allies to fight Assad but that doesn't determine how they behave once they are created.
If you read a history book about 7th century Arabian desert raiders who became religious fanatics how would you expect them to behave? Isis are behaving exactly the same way as that because that way of behaving - in wartime against non-muslim enemies - is prescribed in the religion.
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The truth in this case is also useful in illustrating just how much the media lies as they've been covering all this up for years.
christians and jews are considered "people of the book", and hyes become dhimmis after surrender.
all others are considered pagans and killed outright. 40 million hindus will attest to that fact. Hindu Kush? Killer of Hindus.
the haditha was modified to include the determination of christian and jewish oppostion to the empire. the rationale behind the words is based upon the explicit acceptamce of christians and jews in the koran. in other words, we accept christians and jews but they don't accept us(isn't that essential conflict between the historical jews and christian conflict?). they couldn't kill them unless the were threatened(usa cop?) so they came up with what made sense then.....and some people want to apply it to today. the haditha is the problem/conflict solver that is decided by man and man is flawed, exactly like all the crap written after the fact or based upon hearsay and personal prejudice by the other religions in general but ion this case specific to the abrahamics.
it is insane to discuss the rational or irrational aspects of any religion because the very premise is irrational.
Yes interpetation of religious books who people take as the law of the land always leads to problems.
Here is Robin Williams doing a hilarious and politically incorrect comedy bit on just this point about jihad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osvvTOzzQBE
OT & asynchronous, here is a good read about the causes & consequences of adult males mimicking children's dolls. When they do it in public, not just to their mammas, we're in Bates Motel country:
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
Perhaps Robin Williams' nihilism is what made him take his own life.
I really love it when somebody complains about religion, but accepts as an authority a freakin' comic, and one with serious mental problems no less.
An authority???
Drama queen much?
Yeah an authority, or don't you understand the meaning of the word.
ISIS is just CIA and Israeli theater in the play that is Greater Israel.
Next up, a command performance of the Dancig Mossad.
An American, not US subject.
History tells me otherwise. But our press does seem to hate all religion, so I'll give you that.
The people who control the MSM tend only believe in one god and that god is the state itself. Doesn't matter if they 'left' like MSNBC or 'right' like Fox News. Only difference between the two their belief is in the details of how the state should conduct itself as your lord and master. Not whether it should or shouldn't be.
Statism IS a religion.
George,
I am a generally a fan, but this is not your best work.
I think your premise is fair - ISIS is not Islam. Just like the CIA is not Christianity. And Mossad is not Isreali. One extreme group using religion opportunistically to gain moral cover does not define nor invalidate the religion nor the religious text used as inspiration. This, the message of the modern fabable -> "The book of Eli" is true.
But there are certain elements of Islam that make it a very useful tool for those who want to rule the world while smiling at those they are about to exterminate.
Theologically, there are inconsistencies that allow them to position themselves as the religion of peace while growing their population in an area. But there are also loopholes that allow them to transition to jihad when they feel they have critical mass.
1) New verses trump older verses.
"Rather than explain away inconsistencies in passages regulating the Muslim community, many jurists acknowledge the differences but accept that latter verses trump earlier verses."
John Burton, The Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. 7, s.v. "Naskh," p. 1010.
2) Lying is allowed if it furthers the cause of Islam's domination. (Taqiyya)
Bukhari (49:857) - "He who makes peace between the people by inventing good information or saying good things, is not a liar." Lying is permitted when the end justifies the means.
Bukhari (84:64-65) - Speaking from a position of power at the time, Ali confirms that lying is permissible in order to deceive an "enemy."
Now, the same charge could be said of Christianity where submission to authorities (Romans 13) is elevated as the chief duty of pledge of allegiance saying citizens inspite of the fact that Jesus elevated loving neighbors above all else (Mt 22:40) and that he commanded his followers to abstain from loyalty oaths (Mt 5:37). The NEOCON menace to world peace is just as concerning as a few brown skinned ones pulling a PR stunt.
Thorn in their eye, plank in ours...
Theologically, there are inconsistencies that allow them to position themselves…
1) New verses trump older verses…
As a new religion, i.e. formed after the first century, this appears to be a common characteristic. As Rome transitioned from political to ecclesiastical, it maintained this practice, much like states do when passing new laws. Their twist however was to justify it by claiming infallibility first to councils and then more precisely to the pope. They further explain obvious changes as clarifications of timeless truths just currently being addressed for a further developed humanity.
Here in the US we see it in Joseph Smith and Mary Baker Eddy’s organizations. It’s a necessary feature to have current prophets and / or continuing revelations to keep the faithful addicted to the pabulum spewed by these charlatans. Just a cursory study of the US copy write laws and the royalties they provide authors who register their writings will disclose the truth behind these “movements”. Samuel Clemons has some great stuff to say about both these authors as a contemporary and someone who should know a thing or two of the practice. The difference being he had no problem writing with a pen name.
Christianity is unique in that it claims the Jews Law, prophets, psalms and wisdom literature which hadn’t been added to for at least 400 years before Christ should remain intact and should be viewed in light of Jesus life as being fulfilled. The earliest Christian leaders had in fact only these ancient records to use when proving the authenticity of Jesus’ claim to deity.
The fact that during those 400 years the writings had been translated from Hebrew and Aramaic to Greek should put to rest any concern people may have in translating writings from a dead language to a common form in order to convey truth.
One shouldn’t forget the main charge against Jesus which justified his condemnation was his foretelling the total destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. One common thread the histories, letters and apocalyptic text contained in the canonized New Testament writings is the obvious absence of first-hand reporting and / or experiential participation of the event in 70AD. This is one reason why Josephus’ record is not considered on par with the accuracy of these earlier authors works.
jmunderstanding
"I am a generally a fan, but this is not your best work."
The understatement of the year.
Disagree.
"Render unto Ceasar the things that are Ceasars and render unto God the things that are Gods."
If the Romans forced you to take a loyalty oath under pain of death then I think there's a built in fudge factor there because you're doing what Ceasar requires. That passage applies to joining the local Elks club in case the drunken wife swapping picnic would cause you to break the Commandments.`
This is why some C.O.'s drafted in Vietnam would end up in a medic corps without signing a loyalty oath because they wouldn't pick up a gun.
Some went to jail rather than to participate at all.
" 2) Lying is allowed if it furthers the cause of Islam's domination. (Taqiyya) "
I don't know if this is accurate : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyya
but nowhere it is written that Taqiyya is meant to further Islam domination. According to the article it litterally means "caution" .
" Bukhari (49:857) - "He who makes peace between the people by inventing good information or saying good things, is not a liar." Lying is permitted when the end justifies the means. "
Yes, but apparently, when you read the ten commandments, there is no place where it is explicitely forbidden to lie. But, it is explicitely forbidden to bear false witness against your neighbour.
You might try this cite as a source. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/011-taqiyya.htm
Just before 9/11 the Pentagon announced several trillion dollars missing from the budget? TA-DA ISIS!
double post
Dov Zakheim retires from Booz Allen Hamilton
For those of you who don't know who Dov Zakheim is, let me refresh your memory. The ordained rabbi served as comptroller of the Pentagon from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, when he resigned to go to Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading consulting firm.
I documented his days before, during and after his Pentagon stint, during which a total of $3.2 trillion went missing from Pentagon coffers, in an article for Online Journal, Following Dov Zakheim and Pentagon trillions to 9-11 and Israel, which you should all read in full.
In fact, the second loss of $2.3 trillion was announced on September 10, 2001, by Donald Rumsfeld and the story was buried the next day under the rubble of 9/11.
News of the dual Israel-US citizen/rabbi's retirement came to me from a reader in an email that contained Mr. Zakheim's retirement announcement above the original invitation from his sec EA (Executive Assistant)
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NICE TRY BUT YOUR ignorance is disturbing... since you're way smarter than the average ZH'er, this disinformational post is ... purposeful.
Fellow ZH'ers, go read up on the "Conditions of Omar", a document blessed and sanctioned as enforceable by many Muslim Clerics for centuries right up to the present time. What ISIS is carrying out is Orthodox. They are not free-lancers with a splash of Entrepreneurship, but faithful if arcane soldiers of their God, and are carrying out the cleansing of Christians from the Arabian Peninsula which is POLICY of the House of Saud and their allies [which seems to include the Washington Cabal - not to be confused with the populace of the United States]
Who is George working for?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/raymond-ibrahim-western-ignorance-of-t...
[BTW... see buried in the article - Is John McCain truly demonized?]
Agreed. This post is a lie. Mohamad got the ball rolling as a murderous tyranny.
BTW There was no literature organized until 200 years later. He probably didn't exist.
Washington is at his usual and I fail to understand why his posts are accepted.
Mohammed said a lot of things; basically, whatever worked best for that moment. You can find opposite passages as well.
Any philosophy that mandates the murder of former believers is hard to take seriously.
There ARE good Muslims, not much thanks to their book.
"Any philosophy that mandates the murder of former believers is hard to take seriously."
Well, there goes Scientology...
*rimshot*
The same can be said of the many Christian sects as well... from the crusades to Iraq and now ISIS... Christianity is salivating for another blood letting (as are the Jews). It's hard to pick the shortest midget in this room full of murderers.
The room full of murders, the really, really prolific ones..
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro.. all leaders of atheist states.
If you think the world is bad with theistic religion, take a look at it without it, where atheism and statism rule.
"Christianity is salivating for another blood letting (as are the Jews)"
I don't know what type of Christian churches you go to or ministers you listen to (please cite examples), but most of the current Christian literature and preaching I've seen isn't really pushing violence.
http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Love-Overwhelmed-Relentless-God/dp/143476851...
http://lovemovement.org/
I'm sure you can cherry pick some examples of fringe groups, or historical examples, but the modern Christian church is not equal to Islam in any way shape or form.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
The caveat is that you'll never have a problem with a Christian who follows only the red printed parts of the KJV.
I've met some. Very pleasant people whose only wish is that there were more like them.
People say things like this as if it changes the argument somehow. Like:
1) x wants to kill you
2) y wants to kill you too
implied conclusion: don't worry about x
The implied conclusion is nonsense.
The point it that ISIS and the other Radical Islamic Terroists do what they do in the NAME of Being a Muslim, or for ALLAH or for Muhammad. They use their so called "religion" as the reason/JUSTIFICATION for WHY they do these horrid things. This article 'calles them out' on it- SHOWING that they are not based on the TEACHINGS of Muhammad. So their whole justification for WHY and WHAT is a sham. Many Young followers of this movemnt no doubt have been lied to telling them it's part of their religion to kill, persucute, etc... I think the point is that if more people knew this was a lie then their power as being directed by Allah / Muhammad etc... crumbles.
Nice try.
Read the Hadiths. Goat pokin', kiddy rapin' and infidel killin'...
It's in there. Big Mo's 'Rules For Radicals'.
Read the Talmud if you can stomach it...
"This article 'calles them out' on it- SHOWING that they are not based on the TEACHINGS of Muhammad."
Except it doesn't. There are **two sets of rules** one set for when waging war against the infidels and a second set for when a Christian or Jewish population has **surrendered** to the muslims and is living within an Islamic state.
In the first set of rules - when at war against the infidels - it is perfectly fine to kill and enslave Christians.
(This second set of rules only applies to Christians or Jews and not people like the Yazidis.)
Your argument doesn't work.
Have another pull on the hookah and give it another try.
But that's too complex for the most americans to comprehend. And the banksters know this.
He was a bit moody and tended to backtrack on such things when the Christians and Jews refused to accept him as the Last Prophet. His inconsistency is best seen in Satanic Verses but also in Treaty of Hudayiyah
Perhaps ISIS is simply comprised of all the Hare Krishnas that were forced to leave the airports. I've wondered where they went.
The point made by this article is analogous to saying that Obama, and most of our elected leaders, are not American because they pay no attention to the Constitution.
George, take your documents to the leaders of ISIS and demand they repent.
ISIS is a creation of the United States of America and its Govenment.
If you are a US Citizen then your tax dollars paid for it...as well as mine.
We created them. We amed them from Benghazi and through Turkey to overthrow Assad in Syria.
Ambassador Stevens was one of the first casualties from this fiasco.
They use the Islamic Religion to justify their evil deeds. They are just as Muslim as Zbigenew Brezenski, National Security Advisor to the Carter Administration, was Islamic, when he went over to Afghanistan in 1978, preaching Allah's word, to the Mujahadeen.
Evil men corrupt Religion to achieve their Geopolitical goals.
Brezenski is a fucking atheist who does not believe in any God. He is a practitioner of Moral Relativism and pragmatism. He had no morals then and he has no morals today. They do that which is expedient.
Do you really believe that the leaders of ISIS, er, our CIA, have any God but the US Government?
And you people are so sucked into the false paradigm and blame what is happening on the religion? The misinformation campaign and propaganda machine works so very well with you.
That is downright laughable. I would have hoped for better on ZH. But that has been far from the case concerning most topics covered.
I get that we provided funds and arms that found their way to ISIS. Probably because Obonehead is a muslim. But I will blame that religion for tens if not hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. There is no country in which Islam dominates and people are free to practice any religion they want. Nearly all the religious violence in the world is attributable to bloody muslim hands.
Obozo is a practicing homosexual and subject to death under the laws of Islam.
See how Iran deals with them. (They hang them.) The Saudis behead them.
I blame the US Government for the tens of thousands of deaths that happen in the ME every year as we are the INSTIGATORS.
We created the Mujahadeen.
We created al Qaeda.
We cretated ISIS.
We had a Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, on National TeeVee, gloating to Katie Couric, that OUR killings of ONE HALF MILLION CHILDREN in Iraq was worth it.
LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
I was thinking maybe Jehovah Witness?...those peckerwoods sure can cover some ground in a hurry too!
Nice work!
A good whack at the Muslims with a follow thru to Barry's head.
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Exactly! +1000
The Actiname of Mohammed 626AD is located at St. Catherine's Orthodox Monastery in Sinai, Egypt. It is understood that this protection is only for the monastery and it's inhabitants as Orthodox Christian monks in Mohammed's time as still done today care for the bedoin. This was not written by Mohammed as a blanket protection for all Christians. This is being taken way out of context. I am an Orthodox Christian and have known about this for years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achtiname_of_Muhammad
I'm no Islamic lawyer but that would constrain "far and near" in the first chapter to from 'here to over there" of a stone toss.
Most unlikely.
Of course Big Mo was never noted for his consistency either. He was always getting program updates.
yeah, I was gonna say, this just didnt apply.
first there was the jizzya tax. pay it, convert, or die. then all of the little things. the kafir must be humiliated by the muslims, couldnt own weapons, couldnt have a bigger house, had to respect the muslims, and on and on.
this is a crock. go read the koran dipsquat. statistically, about 80% of it is one long rant and rave against christians and jews.
have not christians and jews as your friends, as theya re the friends of each other.
Apparently Big Mo ain't running the show anymore.
Muslims have become more ecumenical with their murder.