There’s one of those on the first page also. Spencer claims that Islam commands violence to spread Islam. I posted two links that thoroughly debunk that position.
In any case, it’s possible to use original sources badly, remember? Quoting the bible doesn’t mean you are actually correct about what Christians believe. Same with this.
OBTW, that quote from Spencer’s website you condemned…
On his website, he states: “In Islam, the person in charge of religious affairs is concerned with “power politics,” because Islam is “under obligation to gain power over other nations.””
In fact, Islam contains no such command.
you didn’t say where you got it so I did a search on the site. Look what I found here:
jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/002622.php
A little quiz. Ready, Dave?
Who said this: “…in the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.” In Islam, the person in charge of religious affairs is concerned with “power politics,” because Islam is “under obligation to gain power over other nations.”
Got to have been that heretic Ibn Taymiyya, right? Wrong. **It was Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), **the pioneering sociologist who has, for a complex of reasons, become a kind of totem for the democracy movement in Egypt and elsewhere in the Islamic world.
and here:
jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/000768.php
Muslim jurists have constructed an elaborate legal edifice that is without parallel in any other major religion: a codified, detailed mass of laws for the conduct of warfare in the name of God. **Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), **the pioneering historian and philosopher,
puts it this way: “In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.” Islam is “under obligation to gain power over other nations.”
This is the traditional understanding of jihad that radical Muslims worldwide are operating upon.
and here:
jihadwatch.org/archives/012099.php
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Excerpts from, Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah; an introduction to history, translated from the Arabic by Franz Rosenthal, New York, Pantheon Books, 1958, pp. 473,480. **“**In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the mission and convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force. Therefore, caliphate and royal authority are united , so that the person in charge can devote the available strength to both of them at the same time. The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a religious duty to them, save only for purposes of defense. It has thus come about that the person in charge of religious affairs is not concerned with power politics at all. , royal authority comes to those who have it, by accident and in some way that has nothing to do with religion. It comes to them as the necessary result of group feeling, which by its very nature seeks to obtain royal authority, as we have mentioned before, and not because they are under obligation to gain power over other nations, as is the case with Islam. They are merely required to establish their religion among their own .
That is why the Israelites after Moses and Joshua remained unconcerned with royal authority for about four hundred years. Their only concern was to establish their religion.
Thereafter, there were dissensions among the Christians with regard to their religion and to Christology. They split into groups and sects, which secured the support of the various Christian rulers against each other. At different times there appeared different sects. Finally, these sects crystallized into three groups, which constitute the sects. Others have no significance. These are the Melchites, the Jacobites, and the Nestorians. We do not think that we should blacken the pages of this book with discussion of their dogmas of unbelief. In general, they are well known. All of them are unbelief. This is clearly stated in the noble Qur’an. discuss or argue those things with them is not upto us. **It is conversion to Islam, payment of the poll tax, or death."] **
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