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Islam:
What the West Needs
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DVD - Our Price: $16.95 |
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Quixotic Media (2006) |
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Length:
98 minutes |
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Product # VID493 |
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Shipping weight: 5.3
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"Thought-provoking." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
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"If their central
thesis is true - and it's worth considering - then this is the most
horrific film of the 21st Century so far." - Charlotte
Observer |
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AN EXAMINATION OF ISLAM, VIOLENCE, AND THE FATE
OF THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD |
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Virtually every major Western
leader has over the past several years expressed the view that Islam
is a peaceful religion and that those who commit violence in its
name are fanatics who misinterpret its tenets. This claim, while
widely circulated, rarely attracts serious public examination. Now,
the question is finally being asked,
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"IS ISLAM ITSELF VIOLENT?" |
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Through an
examination of the Koran, other Islamic texts, and the example of
the prophet Muhammad, this documentary establishes through a sober
and methodical presentation, that violence against non-Muslims is
and has always been an integral aspect of Islam. "Jihad," while best
translated as "struggle," as represented in the Koran and the life
of Muhammad, means nothing less than organized warfare against
unbelievers. Relying primarily on Islam's own sources, this
documentary demonstrates that Islam is a violent, expansionary
ideology that seeks the destruction or subjugation of other faiths,
cultures, and systems of government. |
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The documentary
consists of original interviews, citations from Islamic texts,
Islamic artwork, computer animated maps, footage of Western leaders,
and Islamic television broadcasts. |
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Features
interviews with noted experts on Islam including Robert Spencer,
Serge Trifkovic, Bat Ye'or, Abdullah Al-Araby, and former terrorist
Walid Shoebat. |
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Outline of the Documentary |
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Introduction
We hear from prominent Western leaders that Islam is peaceful and
that those who commit violence in its name are heterodox fanatics.
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Part 1: ‘There is no God but Allah
and Muhammad is his Prophet’
Our interviewees affirm their belief that Islamic violence is
entirely orthodox behavior for Muslims and stems directly from the
teachings and example of the Prophet Muhammad and the commands of
the Koran. We learn that the example of Muhammad is one of a violent
warlord who killed numerous people. The Koran – the verbatim words
of Allah – prescribes violence against non-Muslims and Muhammad is
the perfect example of the Koran in action.
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Part 2: The Struggle
We learn that jihad, while literally meaning 'struggle', in fact
denotes war fought against non-Muslims in order to bring the rule of
Islamic law to the world. Violent death in jihad is, according to
the Koran, the only assurance of salvation. One of our interviewees
tells of his personal involvement in terrorism and his leaving
Islam.
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Part 3: Expansion
Following the death of Muhammad, his 'rightly-guided' successors
carried his wars to three continents, fighting, enslaving, and
massacring countless Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and
others. Islam did not spread through evangelism or through its
natural appeal, but through aggressive wars of conquest. The
Crusades were largely a belated response on the part of Christian
Europe to rescue Christians in the Holy Land suffering under Muslim
oppression. The Muslim world today, while no longer the unified
empire of the Caliphs, is exceptional for being responsible for the
vast majority of conflicts around the world and for almost all of
international terrorism.
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Part 4: ‘War is Deceit’
A great problem with Western efforts to understand Islam is due to
the Islamic principle of 'religious deception', which enjoins
Muslims to deceive non-Muslims in order to advance the cause of
Islam. Muslim groups today in the West employ deception and omission
to give the impression that 'Islam is a religion of peace', an utter
fiction.
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Part 5: More than a Religion
The most important characteristic of Islam not understood by the
West is that it is more a system of government than a personal
religion. Throughout its history, Islam has never recognized a
distinction between the religious and the secular/political. Islamic
law governs every aspect of religious, political, and personal
action, which amounts to a form of totalitarianism that is divinely
enjoined to dominate the world, analogous in many ways to Communism.
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Part 6: The House of War
Islamic theology divides the world into two spheres locked in
perpetual combat, dar al-Islam (House of Islam - where Islamic law
predominates), and dar al-harb (House of War - the rest of the
world). It is incumbent on dar al-Islam to fight and conquer dar al-harb
and permanently assimilate it. Muslims in Western nations are called
to subvert the secular regimes in which they now live in accordance
with Allah's command. Due to political correctness and general
government and media irresponsibility, the danger posed by observant
Muslims in the West remains largely unappreciated. |
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