Category Archives: Explaining Islam

First, the article is over at RAIR Foundation. It lays it all out.

Here are the two videos. One from Birmingham Britainistan in 2025

The second is from the Friday Sermon at the mosque in San Diego which was made famous by the two teenage National Bolsheviks who shot people near it a day later.

We are not saying these events are connected by the way. In fact I would go out on a limb a little and say that in fact they are specifically not connected. The National Bolsheviks who committed these murders had their own agenda and were almost certainly not sophisticated in their understanding of anything beyond being in the fan club of other National Bolsheviks like Tarrant in New Zealand.

Trevor Loudon details that in this interview from this weekend.

The purpose of this post is to try and get the message across that Islam is not like other religions. It is a complete doctrine for world domination. That exactly like communism, what is said means something quite different to people inside, or outside of the religion. It very much has and relies on an initiate language. The voyage from Mecca to Medina is symbolic of Islamic conquest over the unbeliever. It is not “refugees”. It is not “Migrants”. While individual Muslims may journey to a place that Islam hasn’t yet made into a sh*t-hole for personal reasons, the religion requires them to make it into one. And all the polls ever taken on the subject show a staggering percentage of Muslims in Western nations who do indeed want this. And the number is high enough that a determined fraction of them clearly can and do defeat a larger number of sleeping ignorant who simply cannot learn that when the enemy tells you what they intend to do to you, you should listen and act accordingly.

In fairness though, those muslims are acting in concert with Western leaders who clearly brought them here as the weapon of choice against ‘capitalism’ and Western civilization. So in one sense, the blame doesn’t lie with Western leadership, but with we the people, and those groups that form allowable counter-narratives such that no real opposition can form.

We can spot those groups by the ones that have organized meetings and use words like, “Islamism”, “Islamic extremism”, “Far right wing” (applied to anyone who doesn’t even have to speak the truth about Islam, but brings to your attention Muslims who say it directly) and will not tolerate anyone speaking factually or showing evidence of the real problems.

Know that the two videos presented above are two in thousands. They are just the momentary exemplar because one is so blunt and the other might carry special interest because of the news surrounding the attack at that mosque. But this site has been documenting similar things for nearly 20 years. RAIR Foundation, MEMRI especially focuses on this, obviously Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch, The Baron’s Gates of Vienna, named after one of the most famous attempts by Islam to conquer Europe, all have detailed these things in their own way and with their own styles for even longer.

Ultimately, one needs to understand that both leftism, and Islam, are separate systems of thought. When they speak, they mean something other than what we hear. This is by design.

The one thing they both have in common with Western Socratic thought though, was described perfectly by Orwell in 1984:

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. Physical facts could not be ignored. In the laboratory, or in the factory, the laws of nature could not be ignored. Two and two must make four.”

Here is the Tweet but I am pasting the entire text here as it needs to be in as many places as possible.

I think this is the best I have ever seen it stated. In short form for sure.

@DanBurmawy
Let me tell you why a Muslim would stab a random Jewish person on the streets of London.

I was raised Muslim, and I know exactly why this happens. It’s not a reaction to the war in Gaza. It’s not oppression. It’s not radicalization. It’s the logical outcome of Islam itself.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a Muslim or not, we as human beings carry guilt deep inside us. We know we are not good enough, and we spend our life trying to redeem ourself through good deeds, thinking it will make the suffocating guilt go away.

Christianity for example offers a way out of guilt, a solution not based on your works but on Christ’s.

Salvation isn’t earned, it’s given. You accept that you can’t redeem yourself, because Christ already did everything on your behalf. That means you’re free. Free to live, free to build, free to serve, free to love.

And when a Christian feels lost, broken, and in need of forgiveness, they can go to church, talk to a pastor or priest, and leave knowing they are forgiven.

Islam, on the other hand, doesn’t offer redemption, it weaponizes guilt.

Instead of providing salvation, Allah exposes you, holds your sins over your head, and threatens you with hellfire and torture in the grave.

The Quran isn’t a book of peace, it’s a book of threats. It bullies Muslims into obedience through fear, humiliation, and punishment.

So what happens when a Muslim seeks redemption? They try to be better Muslims.

They pray, fast, give to charity, go on Hajj, do everything Allah commands. But it never works. I know it. I did it.

And no matter how much you pray, no matter how much you try, the guilt never goes away. Because deep down, every Muslim knows it’s not enough. Allah always demands more.

Allah loves those who die fighting against the infidels. That’s not an opinion, it’s in the Quran, in Hadith, in every lesson taught to children.

This is why Muslims, even the so-called “moderates,” always hesitate to condemn terrorism. Because they know jihad is required by Allah. They might not be willing to commit it themselves, but they can’t say it’s wrong.

So when a Muslim fails to reach peace through religious rituals, they have two choices:

Give up, stop being devout, and learn to live with the guilt, or commit to jihad, because that’s the only way to be true to yourself.

The Quran spells it out clearly: “Kill those who do not worship Allah or obey the Prophet” (9:29).

So when a Muslim embraces this identity fully, killing infidels isn’t just justified, it’s joyful. It’s an act of:

Saving yourself, obeying Allah, securing your eternity, finally escaping the crushing weight of guilt

This is why a Muslim can stab a random jewish person on the streets and feel nothing but satisfaction.

Because for the first time in his life, he finally believes he has done something worthy of redemption.

In an earlier post today we posted a speech by Douglas Murray on how political correctness created an incubator for Islam in the West that never could have happened if not for leftist narratives. It’s an excellent and even important speech. Frankly it is one of those explanations that really should have been enough to shut Islam down well before now, at least in the West where once we knew better.

There is a second reason why perhaps in particular the United States is having difficulty fighting back against the destruction of its constitution, culture, values and freedoms by Islam. And that is because the 1st amendment is being improperly applied. And that, is because the definition of religion was not given.

In this article at RAIR Foundation it is clearly explained, not by us, not by our side, but by a top shelf Muslim Jurist, not, as the article says, any comic-book diploma Imam, that Islam is sharia, and sharia is Islam.

Really I don’t think it can be said better, or much added than it is at RAIR. So please do click through and read the article. but I will embed a couple of the short video excerpts from the lauded jurist here.

Why this matters, again, which is explained in the article, is because we confuse a very Western understanding of religion with an Islamic one.

To quote Sam Solomon, another once very influential Islamic jurist, “In the West, religion is a part of life. In Islam, life is a part of religion”. You will see how that works as we come to understand sharia, which is Islam, which is sharia.

The essence:

How belief in Islam is mandatory, and is in fact, the sharia:

There is no comparison between Islam and any other religion. No other religion has compulsion to belief and a death penalty for failure to believe. And yes, Koran says something like, “there is no compulsion in religion” but that is abrogated by half a dozen other later sayings where it is clear there is. Like for example, “He who changes his religion (from Islam) kill him”. Etc.

Granting 1st amendment protection to Islam would be the same as doing so to Nazism and communism if they just called themselves a religion where Hitler, or Marx where the messiahs. And frankly a strong case can be made that the Soviets treated Lenin that way, and it would be a slam dunk to say the North Koreans treat their undead founder, the “Eternal President” of the DPRK Kim Il-sung that way as well.

The 1st amendment protects ritual that does not break laws or threaten your civilization. It didn’t even really cover polygamy as practiced by the Mormons. And Mormonism is sorta kinda a version of Christianity, depending on how your telescope or microscope is zoomed in of course. So protecting Islam under the 1st amendment is frankly insane. And the reason for the insanity is covered in the Douglas Murray speech at the bottom of this post.

Please do go read the entire essay and see the other related videos at RAIR Foundation.

There is nothing in this interview that people who read this site don’t know most likely. But it is an excellent, excellent calm, non polemical, academic interview of an Islamologist who is a professor at the Sorbonne, in France. This is the kind of thing you can send to your skeptical and naive friends and colleagues and all them for their thoughts if they actually watch it all.

He makes short shrift of the ‘Islamophobia’ dialectic device to stop any reasoned criticisms of Islam. And he details what it means to be a non-Muslim in an area where Muslims take political control. Please watch and share.

Article at RAIR:

Thanks to Brunhilde for the translation and Gates of Vienna for the adjustment of timing on the titles.