A Concise History of Islamic Imperialism and "The Third Wave".

Submitted by Wallace Edward Brand (United States), Apr 18, 2008 at 17:15

A Concise History of Islamic Imperialism and "The Third Wave".

There were actually two Islamic Empires, the result of the first two waves of jihad or "holy war". You can find the details in Andrew Bostom, "The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and its Effect on Non-Muslims."

Bostom tells you how Islam expanded and what happened to non-muslims in conquered areas. You will find that Islamic jihad is a grisly campaign against non-Muslims to satisfy Mohammed's goal---forcing the "one true faith" on the entire world. Islam, as practiced in the 7th through the 19th century was a faith bent upon the conquest and subjugation of non-Muslims. Subjugated monotheists "People of the Book" such as Christians or Jews were given three choices, 1. to convert to Islam, or 2. to accept second class citizenship and pay a discriminatory tax, and 3. or else to die. Polytheistic peoples were offered only the last choice.

Bostom describes how at the very outset of Islam, the Jewish Qurayzah tribe were purported to have aided the forces of Muhammad's enemies and how they were subsequently isolated and besieged. After their surrender some six to nine hundred Jewish men were beheaded in front of Muhammad and their decapitated bodies buried in trenches. The young Jewish males, women, and children were sold into slavery and their property and land were confiscated.

Throughout the first and second waves of jihad, non-Muslims were discriminated against, made slaves, raped and then became second class citizens. In an insatiable thirst for slaves and women for harems (places of sexual slavery) Islam declared Jihads deep into Africa and Europe, depopulating Eastern Europe and the coast of Africa.

Jihad campaigns over 1300 years against non-Muslims were characterized by massacre, enslavement, and pillage. You are confronted with how such military conquests have subdued millions of indigenous peoples and expropriated vast expanses of land.

One reviewer of Bostom's history said: "Islam needs to be understood for what it is by head-in-the-sand westerners and, besides analysis and understanding, western civilization certainly needs to identify a lasting cure for this violent, self-absorbed, hate-filled, psychotic plague before more damage is done."

Death, murder, rape plunder and misery were the lot of infidels who were on the receiving end of jihad. Muslim conquests were not the peaceful transitions of willing converts but conquest by the sword. Modern day Jihad is not an isolated incident, but a tradition going back 1300 years.

Maulana Maududi, in his monograph, JIHAD IN ISLAM, has written in unequivocal terms that the sole objective of Islam is to overthrow any un-Islamic political system anywhere in the world and replace it by an Islamic system with Sharia law. To do so, Muslims (belonging to the Party of Allah) must use physical force whenever necessary to quickly attain this objective and keep the application of force forever.

The religion of Islam spread poverty, war, slavery, tirany, illliteracy and backwardness through brutal military force, and brought slavery and marginalization for non-Muslims
to all regions that this totalitarian religion conquered.

Are the terror attacks we are now seeing a "Third Wave"?

The First Wave

The first wave commenced in the time of Muhammad in the 7th Century and lasted until about the 13th Century. From the Arabian peninsula, the first Islamic Empire extended west and included large areas of Northern Africa (the Maghreb} and southern Spain. To the east it included Iran, and large parts of Central Asia.

The decline of the first Islamic empire was described in detail by Efraim Karsh in "Islamic Imperialism, a History." The invasion of the Mongols caused the collapse of the first Islamic Empire; it was already in decline and therefore easy prey. The Mongol invaders drove Turkish tribes to Anatolia. These Islamic Turkish tribes that were fleeing the Mongols settled in what is now Turkey. The Mongols looted and murdered, but couldn't govern. They soon fell into decline.

The Second Wave

The Anatolians were led by the warlord Osman Bey. He would become known as Ottoman. In the 14th Century Ottoman led his warriors to commence the second Islamic Empire. By the late 18th Century the Ottoman Empire had extended further north into Eastern Europe -- to the gates of Vienna by 1683 -- but in the south had lost Spain, Iran, and a large portion of Arabia. Then there was another decline from 1826 to 1908 as the faith based society of Islam fell behind the Western Civilization. In the West reason had triumphed over faith and there were decisive advances in science and engineering and their implementation. Particularly significant to the Islamic decline were the advances in weapons adopted by the Western military. In 1776, however, the Second Islamic Empire still had enough power to exact tribute from the newborn United States of up to 20% of its revenues to protect its merchant shipping in the Mediterranean from being raided. This tribute was required by the Muslim pirates of Tripoli to protect US sailors from being kidnapped and ransomed or sold into slavery and any women passengers sold to harems. See Michael Oren, "America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present."

In the US from 1778 until 1815 there was an internal political struggle very similar to that going on now between the appeasers and those who wanted to fight the Islamic extortionists. "Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute " was the rallying cry until the pro war faction won and the US Marines took Tripoli.

Long before 1900 the Ottoman Empire had became known as "the sick man of Europe". In WWI it entered the war on the side of the Germans. When they lost, the Allies divided the Empire except for Turkey and created 21 Muslim states. A 22nd was created after the British Mandate had been formed to hold Palestine in trust for a national homeland for the Jews in accordance with the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration had been adopted as Allied policy in the Conference of San Remo and promulgated as Article 95 of the Treaty of Sevres.

In forming the 22nd state, now Jordan, the British Mandate gave 76% of Palestine to Jordan, leaving 24% for the United Nations to dispose of in 1948. In 1948 the UN gave some 6% of Palestine to the Jews, mostly desert, and offered the rest to local Muslims. Jerusalem, which had had a majority population of Jews since 1864 was intended to be internationalized. The Muslims did not accept their share- they chose to commence a war against the nascent Jewish state.

This video shows some of that history:
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/

Their wars against Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973 were a preface to the Islamic third wave of global conquest.

The seeds of the third wave were planted by Hassan al Banna in the formation of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1920s in Egypt. But the Brotherhood was easily controlled by the Egyptians until it and its offshoots began receiving petrodollars from the Saudis. See Dore Gold, "Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism".

Prior to Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948, Hassan al Banna said: "If the Jewish State becomes a fact [the Arabs] will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea."

Following the takeover of the West's oil interests and the formation of OPEC, for internal political reasons the Saudis commenced providing petrodollars to the Wahhabis, The Sunni Wahhabis used the immense sums to finance mosques and madrassahs all over the world. These were used to spread their salafist doctrine -- Islam as it existed in the 7th Century. Other Muslim groups such as the Shia in Iran and the Deobandi in Indonesia also adopted similar extreme doctrines. Those who do not study history will not recognize the wave of terror commencing in the 1970s as the start of "the third wave" of global conquest. Those listed below are limited to attacks on the West and do not include the civil war between the Islamic Salvation Front and the government of Algeria, the massacre in the Sudan with the goal of Islamization, the Black September riots in Jordan, the Civil War in Lebanon, the Hamas-Israel conflict, and the attacks on US and coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.

1. 1979 U.S. Embassy take over in Teheran
2. 1982-91 Kidnapings of 10 Americans in Lebanon
3. 1983 Suicide truck bombing of U.S embassy, Beirut
4. 1983 Suicide truck bombing of U.S. Marine barracks, Beirut
5. 1983 Bombing of U.S. Embassy Annex in Kuwait
6. 1984 Suicide bombing attack of U.S. Embasy Compound, Beirut
7. 1984 Hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221
8. 1985 Restaurant bombing, Madrid
9. 1985 Hijacking of TWA 847, Algiers, Beirut
10. 1985 Bombing Rhein-Main air base, Frankfurt
11. 1985 Hijacking of cruise liner Achille Lauro, Port Said, Egypt
12. 1985 Hijacking of Egyptair 648, Malta
13 1985 Rome and Vioenna airport grenade and gun massacres
14.1986 Bombing of TWA flight 840
15. 1986 La Belle Disco bombing, West Berlin
16. 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, Lockerbie, Scotland
17. 1993 Gun attack on CIA employees, Langley, VA
18. 1993 First World Trade Center bombing, NYC
19. 1994 Jewish Cultural Center bombing, Buenos Aires
20. 1995 Bombing of U.S. Military Complex, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
21. 1996 Bombing of the Khobar Towers, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
22 1996 Osama bin Laden's "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places."
23. 1998 Bombing of US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
24. 2000 Bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, Aden, Yemen
25. 2001 Destruction of World Trade Center, NYC
26. 2001 Attack on the Pentagon, Washington, DC
27. 2004 Ferry bombing, Phillipines
28. 2004 Bombing Australian Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia
29. 2004 Bombing trains, Madrid
30. 2005 Bombing attacks in the London underground railway and in the streets, London
31. 2006 Airline bomb plot at Heathrow http://online.wsj.com/article/wonder_land.html
32. 2007 Bombing attacks on London nightclubs and Glasgow Airport

There have been 10,925 deadly terror attacks world wide since 9/11
http://thereligionofpeace.com

From 1942 in Khomenei‘s sermon "Islam is not a religion of Peace" " …those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world." to an Imam whose sermon on April 12th, 2008 repeats that goal, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351242,00.html
it seems clear to me that the Third Wave has commenced.

Following the bombing attack on London nightclubs and the attack on the Glasgow Airport the following day by Muslim doctors, Andrew Bostom wrote an article entitled "Doctors of Death". In it he referred to the third wave of jihad as "a fulminant recrudescence" of the millennium of Islamic Jihad. That is like me coming down with shingles 75 years after I recovered from the chickenpox. "Fulminant" means that it came back with a bang.

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