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Does Sharia Mandate War? | Part 3 · Hank Unplugged

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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research
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  Speaker 1: Institute and host of the Hank Unplugged podcast with another
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  Speaker 1: edition of my series on Sharia law. This all precipitated
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  Speaker 1: because of an appearance on Jesse Waters' primetime, a Fox
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  Speaker 1: News program, in which Jesse Waters was interviewing Abdul El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 1: And in that interview, El-Sayed was favorably comparing Sharia law
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  Speaker 1: with Christian canon law. And so I decided that I
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  Speaker 1: would do a series exposing the horrors, and they are horrors,
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  Speaker 1: the horrors of Sharia law. In this edition, I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about what Sharia law has to say about war.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about the horror of Sharia law with respect
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  Speaker 1: to women in the last podcast today, the horrors of
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  Speaker 1: Sharia law with respect to war. And while Sharia law
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  Speaker 1: acknowledges that the greater jihad is spiritual warfare, warfare against
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  Speaker 1: the lower self, most of Sharia law has been devoted
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  Speaker 1: to prescribing what it means to wage war against non-Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: The scriptural basis for jihad involves all kinds of Quranic verses.
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  Speaker 1: Quran 2, fighting is prescribed for you. Quran 4, slay
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  Speaker 1: them wherever you find them. Quran 9, fight the idolaters utterly.
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  Speaker 1: And I should emphasize here that the words of Allah
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  Speaker 1: and the life and practices of Muhammad are not subject
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  Speaker 1: to change or alteration over time. So we do well
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  Speaker 1: to remember that Muhammad, when he was an itinerant Meccan preacher,
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  Speaker 1: converted fewer than 200 people by means of the word.
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  Speaker 1: Contrast that with Muhammad when he became the Medinan warlord.
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  Speaker 1: He conscripted more than 100,000 by means of sword. And
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  Speaker 1: not only that, in the 14 centuries that followed his death,
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  Speaker 1: Islamic warfare against the kafirs, the unbelievers, has claimed the
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  Speaker 1: lives of at least a quarter of a billion non-Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: And 60 million of them were the followers of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So there's no mistaking the centrality of violent jihad in
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  Speaker 1: Sharia law. In fact, when a devotee of Muhammad asked,
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  Speaker 1: what is the best deed? Muhammad simply said this, to
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  Speaker 1: believe in Allah and his apostle. And then the questioner
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  Speaker 1: followed up, what is next in goodness? And Muhammad said,
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  Speaker 1: to participate in jihad in Allah's cause. Some have calculated
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  Speaker 1: that as many as 35,000 Quranic verses, Sharia laws, various
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  Speaker 1: Muslim scriptures, command and encourage killing, violence, war, annihilation, and
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  Speaker 1: subjugation aimed mainly against someone who is a non-Muslim. In essence,
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  Speaker 1: the world according to Sharia has always been divided into
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  Speaker 1: two specific domains. The house of Islam and the house
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  Speaker 1: of war. In other words, those who already live under
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  Speaker 1: Sharia law and those who are predestined to Sharia subjugation.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about radical Islam here. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about just plain, old, run-of-the-mill Islam. Sharia describes jihad as
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  Speaker 1: a communal obligation and the objective is to invite infidels,
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  Speaker 1: to invite them to enter Islam in faith and practice
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  Speaker 1: or else to pay the non-Muslim poll tax or the jizya.
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  Speaker 1: If infidels neither convert nor pay, then war is prescribed
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  Speaker 1: according to Sharia law. Let me give you just a
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  Speaker 1: little chronology of what happened in just 10 short years
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  Speaker 1: following the death of Muhammad. I've not memorized this, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna read this, but I hope you pay very close
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  Speaker 1: attention to the words, to the chronology, to these 10 years. These, again,
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  Speaker 1: are the 10 years following the death of Muhammad in 632.
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  Speaker 1: So in the first year following his death, in 633,
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  Speaker 1: Abu Bakr, he was the first Muslim caliph, he waged
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  Speaker 1: jihad on the Fertile Crescent, on the North African coast,
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  Speaker 1: and on parts of the Persian and Christian Greek Roman empires.
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  Speaker 1: A year later, now we're in 634, Umar, who was
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  Speaker 1: the second caliph, He continues this pattern of expansion by
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  Speaker 1: the sword. He not only succeeds in subduing the entire
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  Speaker 1: Arabian Peninsula, but loots central Syria as well. 635. In 635,
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  Speaker 1: Muslim warriors conquer Damascus as well as Pella, the very
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  Speaker 1: location which had provided refuge for Christians who had heeded
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  Speaker 1: Christ's warnings to flee when you see Jerusalem being surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by the armies. In 636, Muslim armies captured substantial sections
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  Speaker 1: of Iraq. And then in a great battle in 637,
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  Speaker 1: in southern Iraq, the Persians were decisively defeated, opening the
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  Speaker 1: lands of Iraq to occupation by the armies of the Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: In and about 638, Jerusalem itself, the epicenter of the Levant,
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  Speaker 1: fell victim to to the Muslim juggernaut. Muslims advanced into
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  Speaker 1: Egypt in 639, and in 640, they capture the city
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  Speaker 1: of Babylon, which is near modern-day Cairo. In 641, the
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  Speaker 1: major Christian Greek Roman city of Caesarea falls to Muslim aggression.
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  Speaker 1: and Alexandria succumbs in 642 and in 643, all of Armenia.
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  Speaker 1: And this is just the first decade following the death
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  Speaker 1: of Muhammad. In the second half of the seventh century,
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  Speaker 1: the Islamic Caliphate's armies from Arabia as well as from
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East swept through North African coastal areas that
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  Speaker 1: were held by the Christian Greek Roman Empire, usually referred
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  Speaker 1: to as the Byzantine Empire. North Africa, of course, had
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  Speaker 1: been largely Christian territory since at least the early 4th century.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about the land of Tertullian, the land of St. Cyprian,
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  Speaker 1: the land of St. Athanasius, the land of St. Augustine
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  Speaker 1: of Hippo. So during the first half of the 8th century,
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  Speaker 1: Islamic forces, they crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, and then
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  Speaker 1: they conquer Spain. And thereafter, they sack Bordeaux in the
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  Speaker 1: southwest of France. And in the process, they burn churches
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  Speaker 1: along the way. Islamic invaders... were finally halted at what
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  Speaker 1: has become known as the Battle of Tours. The Islamic juggernaut,
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  Speaker 1: it would not seriously threaten Europe again until the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: Turks defeated the Serbians at Kosovo. That was in 1389.
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  Speaker 1: And then, this is an epic date, they capture Constantinople.
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  Speaker 1: now known as Istanbul, it was just there a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, May 29, 1453. And after that, they moved
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  Speaker 1: through the Balkans to defeat the Hungarians in 1526, a
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  Speaker 1: battle in which, by the way, 14,000 Hungarian soldiers were killed.
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  Speaker 1: And then with the heads of prisoners, including those of
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  Speaker 1: seven bishops, The Ottoman Turks built a mound as a
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  Speaker 1: warning to Christians who dared resist their aggression. All of
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  Speaker 1: this to say that within mere decades of the death
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  Speaker 1: of Muhammad, jihadi juggernaut conquers Egypt, which was the breadbasket
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  Speaker 1: of the ancient classical Christian world, Syria, its brain, And
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  Speaker 1: by 711, Arab armies had defeated the King of Spain
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  Speaker 1: and in less than 10 years controlled most of its territory.
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  Speaker 1: And if Jan Sobieski, his name should be etched in
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  Speaker 1: our memory, if he had not halted Muslim expansionism at
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  Speaker 1: the gates of Vienna on September 11, 1683, We all
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  Speaker 1: know about September 11 in the modern epic. But this
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  Speaker 1: is 1683. If that hadn't happened, the whole of Europe
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  Speaker 1: would have fallen to Islam as well. As horrifying as
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  Speaker 1: Muslim atrocities themselves can be, something even more horrifying is
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  Speaker 1: the modern bent to refashion Islam 14 centuries of Islamic
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  Speaker 1: history to make them politically correct. Andalusia in particular has
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  Speaker 1: been recast, reimagined as a golden age of Islam. This
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  Speaker 1: is what students are being taught. They're being taught that
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  Speaker 1: it's an age characterized by tolerance, by multiculturalism, by diversity,
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  Speaker 1: by peace. Past President Barack Obama has been effusive in
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  Speaker 1: this regard. If he said it once, he said it
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  Speaker 1: a hundred times. Islam, he says, has a proud tradition
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  Speaker 1: of tolerance. And then he says we see it in
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  Speaker 1: the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition And
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  Speaker 1: he's not alone. There are politicians and professors and pundits
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  Speaker 1: of all stripes who are echoing this sentiment. Barack Obama,
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  Speaker 1: along with assorted professors and pundits, seem hell-bent on presenting
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  Speaker 1: Islamic jihad as mental and not martial. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: they recast Andalusia as a paradise in which Muslims live
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  Speaker 1: in supposed peace and tolerant harmony alongside Christians and Jews.
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  Speaker 1: This is a myth. And in the myth of the
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  Speaker 1: Andalusian paradise, which is actually a book written by Dario
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  Speaker 1: Fernandes Morera, he exposes the absurdity of the narrative. He
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  Speaker 1: notes in part that rulers of the Andalusian paradise routinely
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  Speaker 1: beheaded prisoners of war, and then they displayed the severed
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  Speaker 1: heads of victims as symbols of brutality and strength. They
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  Speaker 1: were proud of what they did. And I should say
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  Speaker 1: that Christian persecution, and it's gone on for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: but in the Andalusian paradise, Christian persecution It was particularly hellish.
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  Speaker 1: One well-documented slaughter took place on Friday, March 2nd, 939.
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  Speaker 1: And it is just one of the many noteworthy examples
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  Speaker 1: because on that day, 100 Christian captives arrived at the
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  Speaker 1: Mosque of Cordoba so that the Muslim faithful could witness
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  Speaker 1: the judgment of a law in full bloom. And all
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  Speaker 1: these prisoners, one after the other, were decapitated. I should
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  Speaker 1: also add that these decapitations were trumped only by mass crucifixions.
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  Speaker 1: Students of history are all too familiar with the Martyrs
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  Speaker 1: of Cordoba. martyrs who were brutally murdered for testifying, testifying
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  Speaker 1: to the divinity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: The question that begs an answer in light of the
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  Speaker 1: terror and intolerance that has been exacted upon Christians by
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  Speaker 1: Muslim tyrants is why historically literate politicians, people like Barack Obama,
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  Speaker 1: continue in full face to of the evidence against the
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  Speaker 1: narrative continue to peddle the myth of an Andalusian paradise.
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  Speaker 1: Dario Fernandes Morera, I love his writing. He has well
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  Speaker 1: noted that it can hardly be explained by linguistic ignorance
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  Speaker 1: since the primary sources required for a good general understanding
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  Speaker 1: of Islamic Spain, this understanding has been translated into accessible
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  Speaker 1: Western languages. He goes on to say what it may
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  Speaker 1: be explained by is what economists called stakeholder interests and incentives.
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  Speaker 1: incentives which affect the research of academics and the humanities
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  Speaker 1: no less and perhaps even more than those in the sciences.
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  Speaker 1: And there may be other significant factors as well. Perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: says Marrera, perhaps it has to do with what psychologists
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  Speaker 1: called motivated blindness, a blindness which inhibits an individual's ability
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  Speaker 1: to perceive inconvenient data. Perhaps it is simply the result
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  Speaker 1: of shoddy research by a number of university professors repeated
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  Speaker 1: by many journalists. Or perhaps, since the 18th century enlightenment,
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  Speaker 1: it has to do with the critical construction of a diverse, tolerant,
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  Speaker 1: and happy Islamic Spain, part of an effort to sell
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  Speaker 1: a particular cultural agenda. I've said this before, but perhaps
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  Speaker 1: what is really in play is a serious case of Christophobia.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, by the end of the 11th century,
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  Speaker 1: the forces of Islamic Sharia had captured two-thirds of the
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  Speaker 1: Christian world. We're talking about Palestine, the home of Jesus Christ, Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: the birthplace of Christian monasticism, Asia Minor, where St. Paul
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  Speaker 1: planted the seeds of the first Christian communities. The bottom
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  Speaker 1: line here is we're not talking about the periphery of Christianity.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about its very geographical essence. Simply put, the
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  Speaker 1: consensus of Muslim jurisprudence in concert with the will of
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  Speaker 1: Allah has always and will always mandate war as a
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  Speaker 1: religious duty. Why? Because of the universalism of the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: mischief and the obligation of Muslims to convert everyone to
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  Speaker 1: Islam either by persuasion or by force. When Malik, one
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  Speaker 1: of the four principal figures of Sharia law, was asked
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  Speaker 1: what to do with the crosses and the sacred books
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  Speaker 1: of Christians defeated in jihad, his answer was straightforward. The
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  Speaker 1: gold crosses, he said, those crosses must be broken up
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  Speaker 1: before being distributed as booty to the Muslim warriors. As
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  Speaker 1: far as their sacred books, one must make them disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Islamic wars mandated by Sharia, just like imperialistic and fascist wars,
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  Speaker 1: are not only unjust and illegitimate, but they are also
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  Speaker 1: a plague on the landscape of humanity. And thus, in
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  Speaker 1: my next podcast, I want to talk about the impact
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  Speaker 1: of Sharia on Western civilization. And some, let me say this,
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  Speaker 1: Western elites have to come to their senses. they must
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  Speaker 1: insist that Muslims abdicate Sharia practices, practices that militate against
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  Speaker 1: Western jurisprudence. And it's particularly noteworthy and urgent given the
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  Speaker 1: rise of Muslim politicians, people like Abdul El-Sayed, Ilhan Omar,
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  Speaker 1: Rashida Tlaib, Aisha Wab, and a host of others. And
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  Speaker 1: I would say that time is most certainly of the essence.
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  Speaker 1: I've written about all of this and documented what I've
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  Speaker 1: just said in my book, Muslim, What You Need to
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  Speaker 1: Know About the World's Fastest Growing Religion, available to the
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  Speaker 1: Ministry of the Christian Research Institute. Again, if you enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, rate, review, subscribe. It helps a lot. And
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  Speaker 1: all of the information we're talking about, again, you can
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  Speaker 1: it out on the web as well at equip.org. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for tuning in to this edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing you with the next episode in which, again,
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  Speaker 1: I talk about the assault of Sharia on Western civilization.
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  Speaker 1: So long for now. Thank you.