This is an interview quite similar to the one Vlad Tepes did of Mr. Solomon on June 7th of this year. Here is a written transcript of that interview from The New English Review:
What is a Mosque? An Interview with Sam Solomon
by Jerry Gordon (August 2010)
Gordon: Greetings Mr. Solomon and thank you for consenting to this interview. Let us start with the simple question, what is a mosque and what is its basic function in the Muslim community?
Solomon: A mosque, totally unlike a church or a synagogue, serves the function of orchestrating and mandating every aspect of “life” in a Muslim community from the religious, to the political, to the economic, to the social, to the military. In Islam, religion and life are not separate. They are indivisible. In Islam religion is not just a part of life, but “life” is absorbed and regulated to the tiniest detail by religion (See Figure 1). In other words every aspect of a man or woman’s life must be defined and governed by religion. So there is no concept of personal choice whatsoever, or in theological terms, there is no “free will,” but only limited preferences between prescribed courses of action. In addition, there is no concept of a personal relationship between the person and the entity being worshiped, so “worship” itself, is of a different nature than that performed in a church or synagogue.
Figure 1: Comparison of Non-Islamic vs Islamic views of one’s freedom of choice and options in life.So we see that a mosque is a seat of government. A mosque is a school. A mosque is a court. A mosque is a training center. A mosque is a gathering place, or social center. It is not a place of “worship” per se as understood and as practiced in Western societies.
Specifically, how is a mosque a threat to the community within which it is built?
Every single mosque in the world, by definition, is modeled on the mosque of Muhammad in Medina in accordance with the Sunnah. The Sunnah interprets the Qur’an by reporting exhaustively on everything that Muhammad said, did, or consented to. Therefore, his Medina mosque, the first mosque, was a place where he gave judgments, where he decided who would be executed, where he instituted policy—domestic and military— where Jihad war strategies were designed. Consequently, it was a storage place for arms, a military training base, and was where troops were blessed and dispatched. Literally they were sent to conquer – first the whole of Arabia, and then the rest of the known world. Therefore if the present-day mosque is modeled as per the Sunnah of Muhammad then there should be very serious concern. As is well-known, Muslims are required to follow the example (Sunnah) of Muhammad—and according to Sura 33:36 it is not an option or a matter of opinion: “It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allâh and His Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allâh and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error.” This explains and establishes beyond doubt why arms have been found in mosques in various countries, and in different capital cities.
In addition to the undisputed significance of the Medina mosque as the role model for all Mosques, there is also the Islamic policy of establishing strategic Mosques as beachheads with interconnected networks. Taken together, these two policies do constitute a clear and present danger—and a need for concern.
For example, when Abu Hamza[1] was the Imam of the Finsbury Park mosque in the United Kingdom, he trained people, he sent out terrorists and British authorities found arms stored there. He was well within his Islamic mandate as these activities were sanctioned by Islam. He didn’t find it wrong because it is in the Islamic manuals. Another prime example of a mosque being found to have engaged in high-level political, military and intelligence activities is the Munich Mosque, which is now considered by Islamists to be on a par with some of highest-ranked Mosques in Muslim countries.[2]
What comment do you have on the significance of the Ground Zero Mosque set to open on 9/11, 2011?
First of all, the sponsors and supporters of the Ground Zero Mosque insist that the significance of the building of this mosque is that it constitutes a refutation of the radical “fringe” within Islam, and as such, is a gesture of peace and reconciliation toward America and the victims of 9/11.
But, it is ludicrous for anybody to accept that this is a gesture of peace in the Western sense—rather it is a different definition of “peace.” It is the Islamic definition of “peace” as a suspension of “struggle” which is ultimately said to emerge once opposition ceases, and Islam reigns supreme as Muhammad has stated, “Islam rises and nothing rises above it.”
The rationale of the sponsors is that acts of terrorism are being carried out by misguided “radicals” rather than true Muslims and that as a consequence, Islam itself has been victimized and defamed and needs to be defended. Their solution is to appear to decry all “radicalism”, and to take the bold symbolic act of erecting a 13 to 15-story Mosque—ostensibly representing true Islam—on the site itself, in their words, to “bridge and heal this divide.” [3]
When you speak of setting a “beachhead,” is building this mosque tactically similar to Muslims building the Al Aqsa Mosque adjacent to the Western Wall in Jerusalem?
Most Westerners do not realize that there are two Mosques on the Temple Mount. One is called Masjid Al-Aqsa, the Mosque of Ascension, and the other is called “Qubbat Al-Sakhra”, the Dome of the Rock.
To provide the groundwork for answering your question more specifically, the basic principle is, that a mosque, totally unlike a church or synagogue, is a “sign” and a “symbol” of the establishment of “authority”—both religious and political—not just a place of worship for its adherents.
Can you explain the significance of the ‘Hijra’ or migration?
You need to understand an important distinction: In Islam migration is a mental concept as well as a physical action.
The physical migration of Muslim communities, from one country to another or from one area to another is just as important. It is to extend the rule of Islam. For instance, there would be no need for Islamic schools if there were no Muslim children. There would be no need for Halal meat if there were no Muslim consumers. There would be no debate about the Hijab if there were no Muslim women to wear it.
What is the most important thing for us to know about Islam?
>The most important thing for a non-Muslim to understand about Islam is that Islam is not simply a religion. Islam is a social and political system, an indivisible melding of religion and state.
It is a socio-political, socio-religious, socio-economical, socio-educational, socio-judiciary, legislative militaristic system cloaked and garbed in religious terminology.
We must never forget that Islam is an all-encompassing ideological system, and as such wherever there is a Muslim community there will be Sharia and wherever there is a Sharia there is an Islamisation of the territory and ultimately of the nation.
Consider the use of Mosques as armories in which weapons are stored.
A crucial step in developing any effective counter-jihad strategy would be the reclassification of Islam as a political ideology.
At present, because of our reluctance to intervene in matters of religion, Muslims are free to push their agenda of Islamizing the West. Were Islam to be considered a political ideology, however, the situation would be entirely different.
Consider, for example, whether European nations would find it quite so difficult to legistlate against the burka if this garment was regarded as the battle-dress of the women’s corps of a political ideology bent on taking over the country.
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Mike:
Please try again. I have it up and working for the moment.
@ Jamee Pawlak
So a good way to capture weapons.
islam is a cult . A cult is not a religion however
big it gets. islam is a cult. This fantastic admission of the culthood of islam is carved and
written in stone on the beautiful un-islamic walls of the Great Sofia church in Turkey by islam. Go read
this. This is a fact that muslims have to realise on their own . If
muslims want to be religious they have to join a religion like what their
forefathers were following before the idiot arabs came and forced them to be
like them even though they weren’t anything like the arabs. You got this ? Now
Think !! Who are you ?
Look dude islam is a cult
. A dirty dirty dirty cult. islam is not a religion . islam is a cult and it’s
cult status is admitted on the walls of the Sofia church in Turkey. So if you
can read English it’s a good sign….start moving away from dirty dirty
arabic. Your grand children will thank you even though your current brain
washed children will want to kill you but you have to look further for your grand children. Do it or stay stupid and looking foolish. The arabs are conning you people. Sand under their feet and sand in their
heads and they want you to be exactly like them . Are you out of your mind ?? WAKE UP or stay sleeping…it’s your call !! Nobody really cares for islam or muslims. Even you shouldn’t.
Thanks for the comment Dr. Music. Did you watch the interview? Sam Solomon is one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on Islam as he was a senior cleric at Al Azaar and realized it was a bad path. Also, check out the posters appearing at British public schools saying that music is a sin and evil and must not be taught or even listened to.
hmmmm….in the next 30 years …..let’s see…In the next 30 years …i see….this planet’s favorite cult will be ON nearly full time on the planet …Tesla will be in arab hands and slowly start to rot or shut down…most of our news will be in arab hands and countries will be fighting internally with the muslim population….the numbers game and the money game will be controlled by the arabs….major research will have stopped and scores of populations be destroyed and traumatized by muslim growth and rampant disorderly and dangerous civil behavior…sharia law will be the justice system because it will be silently and lethally applied. Education will nearly be done for and women and children will be subjugated and mosques will be the order of the day. All men will wear islamic clothing and look like monkeys in clothes talking in guttural arabic and women will look like current day human sized garbage bags. Libraries and written modern history and technology will slowly slowly be burnt or somehow destroyed and slowly slowly tech will die….Medical research and science will take such a way back seat that in the end the smartest guys will actually be the the guys who run the mosques and they will actually know nothing but hate and trash and all things stupidly islamic only. Still-working tech will be highly valued and those that don’t have any will bray 5 times a day everyday and be dumb and their children will be like that and their children will be like them. Like billions of ticks on an infested round dog of a planet muslims and islam will slowly kill and bleed the planet. Slowly this round dog of a planet will die as billions of muslim ticks will wipe away our culture and the signatures of our progress will slowly decay and whatever not-muslim will be chipped away and forgotten because it will be denied by islam it ever existed. It is not dirtiness is not islam’s fault…it is islam’s way. Regress is islam’s progress. It is not the arabs and islam’s fault that they behaved such…islam is a self destructive force that refuses to change and any suggestions to reform or even think progressively will and has to be dealt with the sword. Those who live by the sword will in the end die by the sword…and islam adopted the sword as a life saver…wrong choice of bad tech…but that is to be expected by a system that is the dumbest and stupidest ….It owes it’s existence to our decency….we refused to see its DNA of inherent ungratefulness….we were too decent….we are finished… islam will slowly commit hara-kiri and that is it’s final goal because it was written by mad men about a mad man to duplicate that mad man exponentially. The dirty and sadistic koran is the ultimate dirty dirty joke to be played on decent humanity by dirty minds to create filth and grief on humans. Humans in the end will prove to be idiots but no one will know then. At the zenith of our civilization we handed over the planet to dirty backward islam because were too decent to kill it. We were too decent. islam repeatedly stabbed us in our backs as we peered into our microscopes and telescopes ….we did not see and refused to see the islam in the room.
Muslims are the only deadlyvirus known to man that can be seen with the naked eye.
Mars will not happen as long as islam is on this planet.
And that is arguably a good thing. Islam is a virulent infection that uses the host’s resources to destroy itself. Humanity should be confined to this planet till it cures itself of it.
The best, succinct description of Islam. Thank you.