Eternal War
Islam was created to be the army of God, the army of Allah. Every single
Moslem is a soldier in this army. Every single Moslem that dies in fighting
for the spread of Islam is a shaheed (martyr) no matter how he dies,
because -- and this is very important -- this is an eternal war between
the two civilizations. It's not a war that stops. This war is there
because it was created by Allah. Islam must be the ruler. This is
a war that will not end.
Peace in Islam can exist only within the Islamic world; peace can only
be between Moslem and Moslem. With the non-Moslem world or non-Moslem
opponents, there can be only one solution -- a cease fire until Moslems
can gain more power. It is an eternal war until the end of days.
Peace can only come when the Islamic side wins.
A few weeks after the Oslo agreement was signed, Yasser Arafat went
to Johannesburg, and in a mosque there he made a speech in which he
apologized, saying, "Do you think I signed something with the Jews
which is contrary to the rules of Islam?" Arafat continued, "That's
not so. I'm doing exactly what the prophet Mohammed did."
Whatever the prophet is supposed to have done becomes a precedent.
What Arafat was saying was, "Remember the story of Hodaybiya."
The prophet had made an agreement there with the tribe of Kuraish for
10 years. But then he trained 10,000 soldiers and within two years marched
on their city of Mecca. He, of course, found some kind of pretext.
Thus, in Islamic jurisdiction, it became a legal precedent which states
that you are only allowed to make peace for a maximum of 10 years.
Secondly, at the first instance that you are able, you must renew the
jihad [thus breaking the "peace" agreement].
What makes Islam accept cease-fire? Only one thing: when the enemy
is too strong. It is a tactical choice. Sometimes, he may have to agree
to a cease-fire in the most humiliating conditions. It's allowed because
Mohammed accepted a cease-fire under humiliating conditions. That's
what Arafat said to them in Johannesburg.
END OF DAYS
It is highly important to understand how a civilization sees the end
of days. In Christianity and in Judaism, we know exactly what is the
vision of the end of days. In Judaism, it is going to be as in Isaiah
-- peace between nations, not just one nation, but between all nations.
People will not have any more need for weapons and nature will be changed
-- a beautiful end of days and the kingdom of God on earth. Christianity
goes as far as Revelation to see a day that Satan himself is obliterated.
There are no more powers of evil. That's the vision.
In the end of days, Islam sees a world that is totally Moslem, completely
Moslem under the rule of Islam. Complete and final victory. Christians
will not exist, because according to many Islamic traditions, the
Moslems who are in hell will have to be replaced by somebody and they'll
be replaced by the Christians.
The Jews will no longer exist, because before the coming of the end
of days, there is going to be a war against the Jews where all Jews
should be killed. I'm quoting now from the heart of Islamic tradition,
from the books that are read by every child in school. The Jews will
all be killed. They'll be running away and they'll be hiding behind
trees and rocks, and on that day Allah will give mouths to the rocks
and trees and they will say, "Oh Moslem come here, there is a Jew
behind me, kill him." Without this, the end of days cannot come.
This is a fundamental of Islam.
Portions excerpted from Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi in Endtime
Issues No. 84.
