Studying Europe's Muslim terrorists

Do the teachings of Islam encourage terrorism? The answer: Certainly not! Islam totally forbids the terrorist acts that are carried out by some misguided people. Islam encourages peace, mercy and forgiveness. Killing innocent people totally contradicts the teachings of Islam.

The word 'Jihad' is generally misunderstood and consequently evokes strong reactions. It is a word frequently used in the press, directly or subtly, to mean holy war. In fact the term "holy war" was coined in Europe during the period of the Crusades. It is an alien concept to the Islamic framework. War is not 'holy.'

Mohammed's God endorsed a policy of conquest, instructing his believers to fight against unbelievers wherever they might be found. In short Mohammed had to conquer, his followers liked to conquer and his deity told them to conquer

Patricia Crone admiited that her sources were biased which finally led to her conclusion that Islam wasn't more than a tribal rebellion against the Byzantines and Persians.

She and her co reasearchers said at the time that the only contemporary non muslim evidence that exists about the rise of Islam was from sources which were in conflict with Islam and therefore "admittedly biased".

She has not retracted her basic conclusions about the origins of Islam.

Steve 41oo wrote:

She and her co reasearchers said at the time that the only contemporary non muslim evidence that exists about the rise of Islam was from sources which were in conflict with Islam and therefore "admittedly biased".

She has not retracted her basic conclusions about the origins of Islam.

Co-researchers (pl)? As far as I know, only Michael Cook co-authored her book.

No, she didn't retract from that.
And may well be, their now single opinion will become the only historic truth some time in future.

John Wansbrough, Michael Cook, Patricia Crone, Andrew Rippon and Gerald Hawting at University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.

Converts To Islam Move Up In Cells

Washington Post
September 15, 2007

Suicide bomber recruitment trial starts in Belgium

Mon Oct 15, 2007
Reuters

Six men have gone on trial accused of recruiting people in Belgium for an Islamic militant group, including a female convert to Islam who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq.

Nicknamed the "Belgian kamikaze", Muriel Degauque blew herself up near a U.S. patrol in 2005 in what was said to be the first suicide attack by a European woman in Iraq. Degauque came from a working-class family in the economically depressed region of Charleroi, and converted to Islam after marrying a Moroccan man.

The trial in Brussels takes place amid fears that Islamic militants are using Belgium as a logistics and support base for attacks in other countries. Among the accused is another Belgian convert to Islam, Pascal Cruypenninck.

Islam is at best nonsense. At worse it provides the moral justification for horrendous acts of political violence, and the incentive (paradise) to carry them out.

University of London SOAS has been at the forefront of researching the origins of Islam. (As opposed to accepting the received Muslim story about Mohammed).

Anyhoo must go David Cameron about to make the most important speech of his life.

"Tory Party staring down the barrel of a gun"

Steve 41oo wrote:

Anyhoo must go David Cameron about to make the most important speech of his life.

"Tory Party staring down the barrel of a gun"

A few short weeks since that was written, a long time in politics.