Islam's War to Save the World
1,300 Years of Struggle
by
Howard Bloom
Presented at the
NY Military Affairs Symposium
Map
and additional research by Jason "JZ" Liszkiewicz and additional research
by Stephen Lee
3rd-6th centuries The eastern Roman Empire and the Persian Sassanians,
the superpowers of their time, wear each other down in continuous
conflict for the domination of Syria, Egypt, and Asia Minor. They dismiss the desert fleas of the Arab Peninsula
as insignificant barbarians.
624
Jihad allowed.[i] Mohammed leads or commands 65
military campaigns in ten years.[ii]
624 Mohammed
leads and commands the Battle of Badr[iii]
against the Meccans. Allah tells Mohammed,
""It behoveth not a prophet that he should have captives until he hath
greatly slaughtered in the land."[iv]”[v] Some sources say that 22 prisoners are beheaded
“by the hand of Ali”.[vi]
625 Mohammed leads and commands the Battle of Uhud[vii]
626 Mohammed command the “action against Banu Nazair”[viii]
627 Mohammed leads and commands the battle of the Trench[ix]
C. 627 Mohammed declares that Jews are “are a people
without understanding…transformed into apes and swine…racing each other in sin
and rancor…. Evil indeed are their works.”[x] This is the point, according to modern Islamic
extremists, at which a worldwide war between Jews and Moslems began.
627 The arch
angel Gabriel, speaking on behalf of Allah orders Mohammed to command an attack
against the Jewish Banu Quraiza. After the Banu Quraiza surrendered, all
the men were beheaded, the women and children taken as slaves, and the property
distributed as booty.[xi],
[xii],
[xiii]
629 Mohammed leads and commands the Battle of Khaibar[xiv]
629
Mohammed sends out his “invitations” to the kings[xv]
629 Mohammed commands a troop of 3,000 to attack Mootah[xvi], the first
attack of Islam against an Arab-Christian outpost of the Byzantine Empire[xvii]--and the first
excused by the deliberate instigation of Mohammed’s “invitations”
630 Mohammed leads the Conquest of Mecca[xviii]
630 The Battle of Hunayn—the
last battle Mohammed led personally. Though the battle was an embarrassment for
the Moslems, Mohammed stayed on the field after most others had fled and continued
to rally his fleeing troops to return to the field of battle.[xix],
[xx],[xxi]
631 Expedition
to Tabuk[xxii]
632 Mohammed, on his deathbed, orders Usama to
head north and attack the Syrian province of the Byzantine Empire[xxiii]
632 Mohammed’s death
639-642
The Arab conquest of Egypt, only some 20 years after
the rise of Islam[xxx]
640 Islam begins to penetrate Sudan.
642 Afghanistan—“The Muslim conquest of
Afghanistan began in the 7th cent.”[xxxi]
With the defeat of the Sassanid Persians at the Battle of Navahand.
642-705
The conquest of North Africa—the Maghreb (Libya, Tunisia,
Morocco, and Algeria)[xxxii]
c. 650-c. 950 Arabs and Persians establish trading posts
in Somalia.
674 Islam establishes colony in Sumatra
705 The Jewish Western Sudanese Queen Dahia-Al
Kahina,[xxxiii]
dies after fighting against the Arab incursion in North Africa, driving the Arab
army northward into Tripolitania. Other
wives of African kings committed suicide to avoid falling into the
hands of the Berbers and Arabs who showed no mercy to the people who would not
be converted to Islam.
711-712 Moslem traders and invaders bring Islam to
India and Pakistan at Sind.[xxxiv],
[xxxv],
[xxxvi]
711-713
Conquest of Spain and short-term occupation of southwestern
France[xxxvii] in 711, a Muslim Berber army under Tarik ibn
Ziyad[xxxviii]
crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain, Roderick, the last Visigothic king,
was defeated, and his kingdom collapsed.[xxxix]
718 Moslem invasion of Aquitaine[xl]
and Provence.[xli]
732-733
Charles Martel defeats Saracens at battle of Tours, France[xlii]
750 Islam penetrates southeast Asia through Aceh[xliii]
751 Battle of Talas—Islam vs China—Islam
wins against China’s Imperial Army as that Army tries to take Kabul and Kashmir[xliv]
c. 750
Arabs begin to use the area of Mombassa—before that city exists--
as an export center for ivory and slaves.
c. 750
“The call of Islam reached Central Asia and South Caucasus Mountains
in the eighth century. At that time the whole of Central Asia(except Northern
part of Kazakhstan) and Caucasus came under Muslim Rule.”[xlv]
800 Islamic traders in Kenya intermarry
with local girls.
900 Arabs control most of Northwest
India.[xlvi]
900s--Mogadishu
in Somalia still "consisted of a loose federation of Arab and Persian
families"[xlvii]
922 Volga
Bulgaria is converted to Islam by Baghdad missionary Ahmad ibn Fadlan.[xlviii]
c. 950 More Arabs arrive in Aceh,
Indonesia[xlix]
979-1030
Mahmud of Ghazna—an Afghan Moslem-- attacks India repeatedly, destroys
temples, forces conversions to Islam, and carries off slaves and booty[l]
c. 1050
Moslem, Japanese, and Chinese merchant ships begin to raid the coasts of
the Philippines.[li]
c. 1050
Islamic traders establish the port of Mombassa in Eastern Africa.
It’s prime exports? Ivory and slaves.
c. 1050
Islamic conquests in Nigeria.
1071 Byzantine defeat at Manzikert. Turkey—the
breadbasket of the Byzantine empire, taken by Moslems.[lii]
1164 Saladin mounts three campaigns against
the Crusaders.[liii]
1174 Saladin conquers Damascus
1200 Turks
reach Bengal and turn it into an Islamic center by converting Hindus[liv].
[lv]
1200s Mogadishu
in Somalia turns from a territory run
by a loose coalition of Arab and Persian
families to a Sultanate run by the Fakhr ad-Din dynasty[lvi]
1250 Aceh becomes first foothold and Sultanate
of Islam in the Indonesian archipelago[lvii],
[lviii]
1250???-1571 Islamic traders establish trading cities, sultanates,
in the Philippines…Manila is one of them.[lix]
1326 The
Chagatayid Khan Tarmashirin converts to Islam.
In the Chagatai Khanate, Tarmashirin converts to Islam. Chagatai Khanate= the five Central Asian states
and Northern Iran[lx]
his conversion paved the way to the overall Islamization of the Chaghadaids Arabic,
Persian, and Turkic sources stress the importance of his islamization to the establishment
of Islam among the Mongols of the Chaghadaid Khanate, (1) some of these same sources
simultaneously suggest that the rebellion against Tarmashirin that resulted in
his depositon was caused by his Islamic policies. (2) Was Tarmashirin, then, both
the one who brought Islam to the Chaghadaids and the victim of his own success?[lxi]
1330 Oz Beg (Uzbek), Khan of the Golden Horde, converts
to Islam, spreading Islam through most of central and northern Asia—from Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kirghizia to Siberia[lxii]--often
by continuing and consolidating Genghis Khan’s conquests in the form of what the
conquered and subjugated Russians called a holy war[lxiii]
1331 Ibn Battutah, the great traveler from
Algeria, visits Mombassa.
c. 1350
“In the 14th cent. Arab traders from Malay and Borneo introduced
Islam into the southern islands [of the Philippines] and extended their
influence as far north as Luzon.”[lxiv]
1389 Moslem
Turks defeat the Hungarians at Kosovo and begin gobbling the Balkans
and parts of Eastern Europe[lxv]
1396 Turks
take Nikopol, a key trade and mining center in the Ukraine[lxvi]
c. 1400
Moslem raiding parties from the Southern Philippine sultanates establish
the practice of raiding the Philippines northern islands for slaves.[lxvii]
The daughters of the slaves are encouraged to convert to Islam and to marry Islamic
Moros. Moslem Filipinos, some converted by Arab missionaries from cities
like Baghdad, establish a practice of regular raiding—“piracy”.
1400 King
of Malacca (Melaka) converts peacefully to Islam and takes the Malay Peninsula
with him. The benefit—Malacca becomes
the world’s greatest trade center.[lxviii],
[lxix]
c. 1414-1450
King of Malacca extends his sway over Malay Peninsula, Mindanao, and Singapore.
1405 Sufi
traders inject Islam even further into the Philippines[lxx]
1444 Turks
take Varna—an East Bulgarian ship making and trading center on the Black
Sea[lxxi]
1457 Royal
Court of Kingdom of Patani covering the 3 modern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat[lxxii], converts
to Islam.[lxxiii]
c. 1450-1550
Arab migration to Indonesia spreading from base of Sumatran colony.
1453 Moslem
conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Muhammad.[lxxiv]
1463 Ottoman
Turks conquer Bosnia.
1509 The
second Portuguese viceroy of the Indian Ocean, Alfonso de Albuquerque, learned
that Malacca was both a stronghold
of Islam and the key to the spice trade, so in 1509 he sent four ships to check
out the port. If he wanted an incident with the Malays he got one; while the Portuguese
were touring the city the sultan ordered his guards to attack them, killing sixty
men and destroying one ship before the rest got away. One officer who distinguished
himself in this battle was Ferdinand Magellan.[lxxv]
1511 Two years later Albuquerque personally led a fleet of nineteen ships to Malacca. The Malaccan force outnumbered the Portuguese by a factor of 15 to 1, but the superior technology of Portuguese ships and cannon prevailed, and Malacca fell after a six-week siege. To prevent any trouble with the powerful mainland states to the north (remember Siam's claim to all of Malaya), Albuquerque immediately sent embassies to Ayutthaya and Pegu, and diplomatic relations with both kingdoms got off to a good start. Afterwards Portugal sent expeditions to the Moluccas (1512), China (1513), and Japan (1543), securing trade with all of those places.
1518 Barbarossa
becomes admiral of the seaborne Jihad—the Mediterranean Islamic fleet.
1526 Battle
of Panipat establishes Moghul dominance of Delhi and Agra, creating the base for
a Moghul Empire in India that would last until 1857[lxxvii]
1526 Pest,
in Hungary, falls to the Turks[lxxviii]
1530 onward
the Somali Imam Ahmed Ibraham al-Ghazi pulls off many a victory in trying to take
Christian Abyssinia. The Abyssinians call on the Portuegese for
help.[lxxix]
1530-1780
In the opinion of Dr. Mohsin Farooqi, “Europe [was] under Muslim Rule.” More than a million Europeans are taken
as slaves by the Islamic Navy of Jihad from Sicily, Cornwall, Ireland,
Lundy (which the Moslems conquered and established as an Islamic
base), the north Devon coast, the south and west coasts of England,
the coast of France and Brittany, Ile de Groix, the Biscay
coast, Portugal, and Spain.[lxxx], [lxxxi] Slaves had a higher market value in the Islamic
world at the time than plunder.[lxxxii],
[lxxxiii],
[lxxxiv] “Father Pierre Dan, a priest who
negotiated ransoms, described the selling of an Irish family at the slave mart.
‘It was a piteous sight to see them exposed for sale at Algiers…when they parted
the wife from the husband, and the father from the child.’”[lxxxv]
1538 “In 1538, the Turkish Navy defeated the combined
naval force of Spain, Venice (Italy) and Pope, a number of times. This made them
master of Mediterranean Sea.”
1539 Sher
Khan, an Afghan, defeats the Moghul Emperor Humayan and temporarily takes control
of the Moghul Empire in India[lxxxvi]
1541 Buda
in Hungary is conquered by the Turks[lxxxvii]
1542 the
Somali Imam's troops trying to conquer Abyssinia
are sent running and the Imam of Somalia leading the onslaught is killed.[lxxxviii]
1571 Battle of Lepanto--one of the biggest naval
battles in history. 200 war galleys from
a combined Spanish, Venetian, Italian, and papal navy, ships carrying 30,000 fighters,
defeat the Islamic fleet of the Ottomans, killing or capturing 15,000 Moslem naval
warriors and liberating 10,000 Christian galley slaves.
The Christians destroy almost the entire Islamic Mediterranean navy.
But it is speedily rebuilt and the Moslem navy returns to its position
as a ruling force in the Mediterranean Sea.
1571 head
of the Moslems of the Philippines is killed in Manila, possibly by Spanish
imperialists
1575-1769
Redemptionist priests purchase the freedom of 15,500 Christian slaves taken
in raids on European lands by the Navy of the Islamic Jihad. Most of those taken go unransomed, are beaten,
bloodied, broken and are sold and resold from Algiers to Egypt, Ethiopia, Arabia,
and Turkey.[lxxxix]
1575 Miguel
Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is captured as a galley slave for the
Navy of the Islamic Jihad and loses the use of one hand.[xc]
1576 Bangladesh
(Bengal), already in Moslem hands, is conquered by the Moghul emperor Akhbar.[xci]
[xcii]
c. 1580-c.
1880 War over Philippines between Moslems and Spaniards.
1600-1700
Spain and Italy lose 20% of their population in naval raids carried
out by the Islamic corsairs.[xciii]
1605 Moghul
empire stretches from Afghanistan to the Deccan Plateau in India.
1622-1644 7,000 English abducted from British
beaches and from ships by the Islamic Navy of Jihad.
1631 Islamic
Navy of Jihad raids Baltimore in Ireland, sacking the town and capturing
most of the inhabitants as slaves.[xciv],
[xcv]
1640 Islamic
Navy of Jihad mounts repeated attacks on Cornwall and enslaves 3,000 inhabitants
in a year.
1628-1634 The Islamic Navy in the Mediterranean
takes 80 French ships and enslaves 1,331 European men and women. “Beautiful
women were given as gifts to the sultan, for his harem.[xcvi]
Gunners, seamen, and shipbuilders were especially prized as slaves.”[xcvii]
1636 The
Navy of the Islamic Jihad in the Mediterranean captures over 1,000 Englishmen
in a mere six months. “When a Barbary galley drew alongside a Christian vessel, as many as 100
Janissaries swarmed aboard the Christian vessel and overpowered the crew.”[xcviii]
1650 The
Sultan of Oman, Sultan bin Sayf, expels the Portuguese.[xcix]
1670 in
Somalia "The Kadi administering Islamic
law was at this time a Hawiye Somali whose predecessors, from about 1670, had
been Sayyids from Arabia. ...The main exports were slaves, ivory, hides, horns,
ghee, and gums. On the coast itself Arab divers were active collecting sponge
cones. And provisions were cheap.[c]
1677 the
Wolof tribes in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Northern Guinea on the Atlantic coast of Africa are conquered
and forced to accept Islam. (http://www.wagateway.org/people.htm)
1683 Battle
of Vienna--Ottoman Empire ceases to be Europe's only superpower--but becomes a
major power whose influence can make or break alliances[ci]
1690 The
Turks drive the Austrians out of Bulgaria and Transylvania and retake
Belgrade and Nis (in Montenegro)[cii]
1717 The
discovery of gold on the banks of the Oxus
during the reign of Peter the Great, together with the desire of Russia to open
a trade route to India, prompted an armed trade expedition to the region, led
by Prince Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky, and consisting of 4,000 men. Upon receiving
the men the Khan set up camp under the pretense of goodwill, then ambushed and
slaughtered the envoys, leaving ten alive to send back. Peter the Great, indebted
after wars with the Ottoman Empire and Sweden, did nothing.[ciii] Before his
conversion to Christianity Prince Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky's
name had been Devlet Kizden Mirza. He came from a line of Kabardian rulers. As
a boy he had been stolen by Nogai tribesmen. He fell into the hands of the
Russians when Russian troops under Vassily
Golitsin besieged the town of Azov[civ]
1729 Moslems
yank Mombassa in Kenya from Portuguese hands
1736 Nadir
Shah declares himself Shah of Iran
1738 Nadir
Shah invades Afghanistan and takes its capital, Kandahar. Then he invades India, attacks Delhi, and carries
off unbelievable amounts of loot, including the Peacock Throne and the 108 carat
Koh-i-Noor diamond[cv]
1758 Ahmad
Shah loots Delhi
1764: Conversion
to Islam of Areadi Gaya, ruler of Futa Toro--a Fulani area in Senegal. "Fulani consider themselves the “holder of the torch” of Islam
and have historically forced other ethnic groups into Islam through “jihad.”[cvi]
1800—roughly. The Sultan of Oman becomes the "protector" of Mogadishu in Somalia.[cvii]
1804 The
jihad of Usman dan Fodio establishes the Sokoto caliphate in Northern Nigeria[cviii]
1814 the
governor of Mombasa invites the British
to protect its indendence--and Mogadishu's--
from the Omani Sultanate.[cix]
1824 Sultan
Sa'id ibn Sultan of Oman moves his capital from Muscat on the Arabian
Peninsula to Zanzibar, off the east coast of Africa. Zanzibar then becomes famous for its prime
export—slaves.[cx]
1828 The
Brits are driven out of Mombasa, in 1828 and don't bother to return.[cxi]
1843 Somalia’s Mogadishu, in ruins because of plague and famine, is ruled by the
representatives of the Sultan of Zanzibar.
These representatives are "an old Arab with an Indian assistant as tax collector"[cxii]
1846 Sultan
of Zanzibar controls all the Benadir
ports of Eastern Africa. [cxiii]
???Bandu
State in West Sudan.
1820-1862 El Hadj Umar Tal in Senegal gets his childhood education in madrassa, goes on a pilgrimage
to Mecca in 1820, then becomes the Caliph of the Tijaniyya brotherhood, and mounts
a jihad that conquers both black unbelievers
and other small Islamic states in the neighborhood.
70,000 die in just three of his battles.
But in 1862 he finally creates an empire--the Toucouleur
Caliphate??--that includes Guinea and Senegal
1830-1857 Haji Shariatullah in Bengal returns from a pilgrimage to Mecca, starts a fundamentalist
movement, tells the Bengalis that they are degraded and that the answer to their
difficulties lies in shunning un-Islamic practices and adhering to the purity
of the Koran
1828 Romania breaks
free of Islamic rule.[cxiv]
1832 Slaves in Manchester, Jamaica, led by a slave
named Muhammad Kaba, mount a Jihad against their masters. They are inspired by the writings on Jihad
that justified the Sokoto Jihad in Nigeria[cxv]
1840 The Sultan of
Zanzibar takes control of Mombassa.[cxvi]
1857 The Sultan of
Zanzibar lends a boat to the English
explorers Burke and Speke. Five months
later they make it 600 miles inland and enter Tabora, a settlement founded by
Arabs as a slave-trading depot.[cxvii] This is by no means
the only Arab slave-trading town founded deep in the interior of Africa by Arab
slave traders. Ujiji, on the shores of
Lake Tanganyika, was another.
1865 David Livingstone
sees the slaughter of between 300 and 400 villagers by slave traders and writes
a vivid letter about it that creates outrage in Britain and inspires the British
to stop the slave-raiding and slave-trading controlled from Zanzibar.[cxviii], [cxix]
1871 British Parliament, outraged by Stanley’s letter, threatens
a naval blockade of Zanzibar and forces the Sulta to close his slave market.[cxx]
1874-1876
The Sultan of Somalia, Sultan Dhahar,
attacks Christian Abyssinia and expels
the Christians of Galgala, destroying their churches[cxxi],
[cxxii]
1878 Daghestan, Georgia
and Armenia are taken from Islamic hands,[cxxiii] presumably by Russians. Russians also take Bessarabia from Islamic hands after a Moslem
rule of 600 years.[cxxiv]
1896 Italy is hungry for East African territory. The Italian
Consul to Zanzibar mounts a 17-man expedition to feel out the Shebelle River in
Somalia. The group is attacked by Somali tribesment and wiped out. Only three of seventeen Italians manage to
return to the Consulate.[cxxv]
1897 the Italians
try again and form "the Benadir Company" to control areas of Somalia. It fails in 1905. [cxxvi]
c. 1955
Moslems from Saudi Arabia and other parts of the worldwide Ummah
protest the fact that the Moslem population of the Philippines has second-class
status in a Christian-dominated country and pour oil dollars into the scholarships
for Islamic students to study in Saudi Arabia, into the establishment of Saudi-style
schools, into attendance by Philippine Moslems of international Islamic conferences,
and into armaments for the Philippine’s Moslems.[cxxvii]
1960 Encouraged by the Saudis and by other Arab
countries, the Moslems of the Philippines demand “independence”.
1968 Founding of The Moro National Liberation
Front in the Philippines and the beginning of a battle for Moslem “autonomy”
that would leave 50,000 dead, and would be backed by Libya and Iran.[cxxviii]
1976 Pakistan’s
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announces his plan to build an ‘Islamic Bomb’, “a bomb
for defense of all Islamic Countries.”[cxxix]
1985 Dr. Ali
Mohammed Naqvi publishes a book destined to become an Internet hit, Islam and
Nationalism. In it, Naqvi
outlines a philosophy of world conquest. He writes, “Nationalism divides
human society into limited and independent units…But Islam addresses all of mankind
as a single unit. Its system is not for a nation, but for the whole human society…
It is the duty of Muslims to fight unyieldingly…until the school of God comes
to dominate over the personal, social, political, economic, intellectual and religious
life of man.”
c. 1983
Abdul Qadeer Khan, future father of “The Islamic Bomb”, manages to snag the complete
design for a Chinese nuclear device 34 inches in diameter, the perfect
size for a missile warhead. Khan obtains
detailed drawings of all of the warhead’s 100 or so parts.[cxxx]
1990 The Autonomous Region Of Muslim Mindanao—including
Tawitawl and Jolo-- declared in the second largest island of the Philippines.[cxxxi]
1990 In July, the Jama'at al Muslimeen under the
control of Imam Yasin Abu Bakr attempts a violent coup in Trinidad and Tobago
to establish a Moslem extremist state[cxxxii]. Jama'at al Muslimeen is still in business today.
1990-2005 Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, El Gamma Iji, and
Islamic Jihad, set up bases in Colombia, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil,
making converts and sending drug money to the middle east to finance their Jihads[cxxxiii]
1994 France’s Direction de Construction Naval International
agrees to sell Pakistan the technology for a superstealth submarine capable
of carrying sixteen cruise missiles with nuclear warheads.
The sub, the Agosta 90B, has a range of 10,000 nautical miles…the distance
to Europe and North America.
1996-2005 Westerners first read the word “madrassa” when
this form of extremist, Saudi-backed religious school educates and graduates the
leaders of Afghanistan’s Taleban. Later it turns out that the Saudis have established these “suicide
bomber factories” in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, the
Balkans, Western Europe, and North America.[cxxxiv],
[cxxxv] It also turns out that the Jamia Binoria society
of madrassas in Karachi, Pakistan, is attracting foreign students from 30 countries,
including the US, and educating them in Saudi-style Wahabi extremism.[cxxxvi]
1997 April 13.
Little-Brown in London tells Paul Fregosi
it won’t print his book about Islam’s Jihad against Europe because of Islamic
censorship pressures.
1998 First test of the Islamic Bomb—Pakistan’s
nuclear warhead.
1998 Pakistan’s first Agosta 90b submarine
is launched.
1999 The Philippine Moro National Liberation
Front buys 10,000 M16 automatic rifles and grenades from North Korean dealer Lim
Kyu-do. It also puts a down payment on
North Korean mini-submarines.[cxxxvii]
1999 September 4, “a car bomb
detonated outside an apartment building housing Russian soldiers in the city
of Buinaksk, in the province of Dagestan.
64 people were killed and dozens
of others were wounded. Russia blamed Chechen separatists, who would days later
invade the province from neighboring Chechnya.”[cxxxviii]
1999 September 8, “300 kg to 400 kg of explosives detonated on the ground
floor of an apartment building in southeast
Moscow. The nine-story building was
destroyed, killing 94 people inside
and wounded 150 others. 108 apartments were destroyed. A caller to a Russian news
agency said the blast was a response to recent Russian bombing of Chechen and
Dagestan villages in response to the invasion of Dagestan.”
[cxxxix]
1999 September 13, “was supposed
to be a day of mourning for the victims of the previous bomb attacks. But on that
day, a large bomb exploded at an apartment
on Kashirskoye Highway in southern Moscow.
The eight-story building was flattened, littering the street with debris and throwing
some concrete hundreds of yards away. In all, 118 people died and 200 were wounded.”..” Boris Yeltsin declared a
war against the "illegal military units" in Chechnya” [cxl]
1999 September 16 truck bomb “outside a nine-story apartment complex in the southern Russian city of Volgodonsk, killing 17
people.” [cxli]
2000 Islamic
militants mount an intense bombing campaign in South Africa, bombing, among
others, the provincial premier of Cape Town, who escaped the blast of a bomb strapped
to a tree between a mosque and a community center, bombing police stations, attacking
a Planet Hollywood restaurant, and injuring 48 people with a bomb in a packed
pizza parlor in Cape Town.[cxlii]
2001 In
response to America’s attacks in Afghanistan, Moslems activists in South Africa
urge their followers to take up arms and join the jihad between Islam and the
“satanic, infidel West”[cxliii],
[cxliv]
2001 May
5. Muslim militants converge on the Moluccas,
the spice islands of Indonesia, to
defend Moslems against “a Christian conspiracy”. Thousands are killed.[cxlv]
2001 March
22 Anti-slavery groups report that there
are 27 million modern slaves “From Khartoum to Calcutta, from Brazil to Bangladesh”.
Most seem to be in Islamic countries.[cxlvi]
2002 In
Al Qaeda's online magazine Al-Ansar, Seif Al-Din Al-Ansari writes, "The
elements of the collapse of Western civilization are proliferating...,
these infidel states are no more than a handful of creatures on the speck of dust
called Planet Earth....Allah told us of the certainty of the annihilation of the
infidels...by means of the Muslim group, which would, in accordance with the Islamic
commandment...torture them...The question now on the agenda is, how is
the torture Allah wants done at our hands to be carried out?"[cxlvii]
2002 Influential Sunni television
star and cleric Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi
joins other Sheiks in issuing a fatwa that declares, "... The Prophet Muhammad
was asked: 'What city will be conquered first, Constantinople or Romiyya?' He
answered: 'The city of Heracles will be conquered first' - that is, Constantinople...
Romiyya is the city called today 'Rome,' the capital of Italy. The city of Heracles
[later to become Constantinople] was conquered by the young 23-year-old Ottoman
Muhammad bin Morad, known in history as Muhammad the Conqueror, in 1453. The other
city, Romiyya, remains, and we hope and believe [that it too will be conquered].
…This means that Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and victor,
after being expelled from it twice - once from the South, from Andalusia, and
a second time from the East, when it knocked several times on the door of Athens."[cxlviii]
2002 Pakistan launches its first home-made Agosta 90B nuclear missile-carrying
sub, built with French technology in the
Karachi shipyard by Pakistani engineers and craftsmen.
2003 Captain Iftikhar Riaz Qureshi, commander of both of Pakistan’s Agosta
90b nuclear-capable subs, writes in the Pakistani Daily Mail that the subs
are meant for “second strike capability”. In other words, they were purchased specifically
to carry nuclear weapons.[cxlix] Qureshi also explains that Pakistan’s ability
to build and to enhance Agosta 90bs in its own shipyards will allow its construction
program “construction program to fulfill our needs and the needs of our friends”.
And he announces that Pakistan’s third Agosta 90b—its second constructed
in the Karachi Naval Shipyard--will be launched “within the next three years”.
2003 June 5 Two female suicide
bombers detonate themselves at a rock concert near Moscow killing 14.
2003 October 23. Roughly 1,000 audience members are taken hostage when
mahahedin chanting, “We love death more than you love life” take over an entire
Moscow theater—the Dubrovka. 130 die.
2003 Police in the Indian hill resort of Kud arrest a young driver and his girlfriend—couriers carrying $100,000 in American donations to finance a never-ending Jihad in Kashmir.[cl]
2003
The US
seizes “the BBC China, a freighter bearing centrifuge parts made in Malaysia,
along with other products of Dr. [A.Q.] Khan's [nuclear] network, all bound
for Libya.” Libya fesses up and hands
over its nuclear skunk works.[cli]
2003 Dr. A.Q. Khan, father of the Islamic Bomb and a national hero in
Pakistan, is put under house arrest. An
initial spate of information indicates that Khan has been selling nuclear
technology he acquired in Europe to North Korea and Libya and shipping
materials through Malaysia.
2004 American
intelligence officials are shocked to discover that Khan’s nuclear network
goes much farther than they thought. In
fact, it has “tendrils…in more than 30 countries” including Afghanistan, Egypt,
Iran, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria,
North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and the United Arab
Emirates. Credible reports say that
during his trip to Afghanistan, Khan met face-to-face with Osama bin Laden.
Intelligence officials wonder, “what other countries, or nonstate groups,
beyond Libya, Iran and North Korea, received what one Bush administration official
called Dr. Khan's ‘nuclear starter kit’”--buy a hundred million dollars worth
of nuclear equipment and Khan throws in the design for a thoroughly-tested nuclear
warhead for free. The suspected list of customers includes Syria, Egypt, Saudi
Arabia, Sudan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Algeria, Kuwait, Myanmar and Abu Dhabi.
2004 Three highly articulate, intelligent, British-born
Moslems who were part of a crowd shouting, “Make way
for Islam, we want Islam”, tell a CNN interviewer
that their Islam, “Is not just a hatred for America it is a hatred
for the whole of western philosophy and western civilization, freedom, democracy,
human rights, international law, all of these fake concepts that have been passed
to us and behind that we have been oppressed, it is a hatred of all of this."[clii]
2004
Iranian Revolutionary Guards intelligence theoretician Hassan Abbassia
tapes a speech discussing an Iranian “strategy drawn up for the destruction
of Anglo-Saxon civilization.” He explains that, “There are 29 sensitive sites
in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know
how we are going to attack them.”[cliii]
2004 The ancient Islamic imperative to holy war is still alive in Southeast Asia. Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, a former editor of The Statesman in India, writes that, “The rebels in Southeast Asia's three main trouble spots - southern Thailand, the southern Philippines and Indonesia's Aceh Province - are Malay Muslims, … Muslims with ancient grievances. …the disturbances look like part of a global Muslim upsurge. The Moro Liberation Front in the Philippines speaks for Mindanao, whose 34 sultanates dated back to the 15th century and once extended to northern Borneo. They fought the Spanish for 300 years and resisted the Americans after 1899.” [cliv]
2004 A long-term jihad in Central Asia and Russia drags on with the siege of a school in Beslan, the terrorist downing of two Russian airliners—94 passengers killed. and a suicide bombing in Moscow.[clv]
2004-2005 Arab Janjaweed tribesmen prey on the black
Islamic population of their own country—the Shariah-run nation of Sudan.[clvi]
“Janjaweed, Arab militias armed by the government, have carried out ethnic cleansing,
systematic rape”[clvii]
and enslavement.[clviii],
[clix]
2004 In
Amsterdam, a 26-year-old Dutch Moroccan shoots filmmaker Theo Van Gogh
while Van Gogh is bicycling. He slashes
Van Gogh’s throat, repeatedly stabs the body, then drives a knife to the hilt
into the corpse, using it to pin down a five-page “open letter” that predicts
the downfall of the “infidel enemies of Islam” and stating, “I know definitely
that you, Oh America, will go down. I know definitely that you, Oh Europe, will
go down. I know definitely that you, Oh Netherlands, will go down.”[clx]
2004 March
11 thirteen bombs on commuter trains triggered to go off simultaneously
at height of Madrid rush hour. Ten
go off. Responsibility is claimed by al
Qaeda in Europe.
2004 In March, British arrest 8 Moslems in Leeds 17-32
years old with large amounts of ammonium nitrate—possibly an attack in
the planning stage.
2004 January 4 30 armed mujahedin storm military armory
and steal 380 M-16s in Narathiwat, Southern Thailand. Meanwhile 18 schools are set afire.[clxi]
2004 April 28. 112
killed when machete armed teenage mujahedin wearing red headbands and black t-shirts
with Islamic slogans attack a dozen police posts in 3 provinces in Southern
Thailand.[clxii] Their goal: to steal guns. Battle goes on for 8 hours. “they have shown ... that they are willing
to die, simply to fight against Buddhist officials…” said Sunai Phasuk, a Bangkok political analyst.
''They fought with knives and swords, fully understanding that the police
will be ready and waiting for them with M-16 rifles.”[clxiii]
2004-2005 The
jihad in Southern Thailand kills 860 in 18 months. The area was once the Sultanate of Pattani
and has its own language. Vendors sell
CDs of beheadings with titles like “Jihad in Chechnya 2000”. Local beheadings run rampant. Buddhist monks
slashed to death & temples bombed. Grocers are threatened for selling pork.
2005 February 14 With assassination of Lebanon’s
former prime minister and culture hero Rifik Hariri and Iraqi elections January
30, 2005, that produce a surprisingly huge turnout, pro-democracy demonstrations and movements break out in Egypt, Lebanon,
Syria, Kuwait, Yemen, and Bahrain. George
Bush’s pro-democracy thrust is cited in nearly every Islamic publication that
covers the story. But does democracy reduce
war? The War of 1812 took place between
two democracies, the US and England.
2005 The Islamic website Islamic World—the Official
Website of the Khilafah Institute, declares, “It is our firm belief that the unique
social and historical conditions of our time, combined with new knowledge in the
fields of science and technology, make it not only possible but highly likely
that within a generation or so we will live in a fully and truly Islamic World.”
2005 The forces of
Al-Qaeda in Europe work to make those words a reality by bombing rush hour commuter
trains and one bus in England.
2005 July 7, London
4 bombings—3 in subways & 1 on a double-decker bus kill 54 people. One suspected bomber was born in Jamaica and
grew up in England. Another is a Cairo-born
student who studied biochemistry and chemical engineering at the undergraduate
and graduate level in the US. Several kilos of ammonium nitrate are found in one
of his two apartments—a “bomb factory”
in Leeds. One suspect, Hasib Hussain is
18 yrs old, comes from a modest neighborhood in Leeds, was a cricket and soccer
player, but was taken off the college track by his teachers and the cricket pitch
on which he played with his team was shut down. He turned to Islam. Two bombers have made trips
to Pakistan that apparently changed their lives. Another, 22-year-old Shahzad Tanweer, was born
in Bradford, England, came from an upper middle-class family that owned a chip
shop, was proud to be British, played cricket the week before the attack, but
went to Pakistan to learn the Koran by heart and may have visited a militant Islamic
private school for the wealthy and the planner of a Pakistani grenade attack that
killed five. The Secret Organization Group
of Al Qaeda of Jihad Organization in
Europe claims credit.[clxiv]
2005 July
14 60 muhahedin attack the regional capital
of Yala in Thailand, killing 2, injuring
22, plunging city into darkness by targeting electrical transformers, a restaurant,
2 convenience stores, a hotel, and the railway station. With fire bombs, explosives,
and guns. A few days earlier a school headmistress is murdered & 2 Buddhist
women are beheaded.