With a wink, Yasser Arafat referred to the “Quraysh Model” in a speech he gave in Arabic to a Palestinian audience shortly after he signed Clinton’s vaunted Oslo Peace Accords and shortly before he issued yet another bloody intifada. He was referring to a ten-year treaty that Mohammad had signed with the Quraysh tribe who ruled Mecca, a truce that the Prophet broke as soon as was strong enough to capture the city and kill all the Jews.
Taqiyya is a tenant of Islam that is uniformly understood by all Muslims with even a rudimentary knowledge of the Koran and the teachings of Mohammad. It not only condones but some would say commands the Muslim to lie to the infidel if done so in the advancement of Islam.
In short, any and all pronouncements that Imam Rauf has made or will make regarding the construction of the mosque at ground zero must be thoroughly fact checked. More »
UPDATE: August 2, 2010 This article has been posted online at Townhall Magazine. It was first published in the May 2010 print issue. I welcome your comments here also.
Original article in Townhall Magazine (pdf)
In A.D. 622, Muhammad was forced to flee to Medina from his birthplace in Mecca, where the ruling tribe, the Quraysh, had come to see his preaching and proselytizing as a threat. While in Medina, he amassed a following of Bedouin warriors who swarmed to his banner to participate in the conquest and plunder of the smaller cities dotting the surrounding Arabian landscape.
In 630, Muhammad’s armies surrounded Mecca and forced its unconditional submission. All organized resistance on the Arabian Peninsula then collapsed, bringing it under Islamic military domination.
In their book Muslim Mafia, coauthors David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry expose the Muslim Brotherhood as the worldwide, Saudi government-funded Islamist hand behind all Sunni terrorist groups and the world’s largest and most dangerous stateless organization. They reveal the Brotherhood’s plan for the eventual Islamic domination of the United States and strategy to follow the example of the prophet after “he fled to Medina.” More »
By 204 B.C., the Carthaginian general, Hannibal, had been wreaking havoc on the Italian peninsula for 14 years at a cost to Rome and its Italian allies of approximately 100,000 lives. In that year, a young charismatic general from one of Rome’s most aristocratic families, Cornelius Scipio, convinced his elders in the Senate to send him and an expeditionary force by sea to attack the Carthaginian homeland in North Africa. This finally brought Hannibal’s army out of Italy to a battlefield of the Romans’ choosing, to a place called Zama, where one of history’s greatest generals was defeated.
In his new book American Heroes in the Fight Against Radical Islam, Oliver North writes that two weeks after the fall of Baghdad, in the town of Baji, the 66th Armored Regiment came upon one of Sadam Hussein’s enormous ammo dumps. Quickly, the regiment’s commander realized that the insurgents would be coming to steal the ammo. He ordered his troops to set up ambush points along the roads leading into the massive complex. Pitched gun battles erupted nightly. Recapping one night’s fighting, North writes: More »
