Muhammad Plan In Both Theological And Military Tactics
Has always been one of purposeful deceit in both Categories
And Muhammad’s Plan For Peace Was Conversion Or Destruction!
June 24, 2008
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The only thing I knew about Islam in 1952, when I made my first violent contact with its beliefs on a narrow side street in Libya, was acquired from history classes in America. During the period 1952 to 1971, from time to time I was associated with, attended IHL’s with, and trained Muslim military personnel from numerous Middle East countries. The more personal contact I had with Persians and Arabs, the
more amazed I became at what they believed.
The eternal doctrine of the Islamic faith, both from a theological and military position, is that Jihad, in its many forms, must continue until the entire world is one Islamic Caliphate. It is in every way the spirit of Antichrist which was to become so powerful in its influence in the last days of this age.
Since Muhammad wrote the Koran, many look upon him primarily as a Holy Man associated only with religion, but that is far from the case. He was a great military leader who merged religion and warfare into concepts and procedures that eventually became an Islamic empire after his death. The following excerpts came from an article by Richard A.
Gabriel, published in the 2007 Summer Issue of MHQ magazine.
Begin Excerpts
Muhammad’s belief in Islam and his own role as the “Messenger of God” revolutionized Arabian warfare and resulted in the creation of the ancient world’ s fir
st army motivated by a coherent system of ideological belief. The ideology of holy war (jihad) and martyrdom (shahada) for the faith was transmitted to the West during the wars between Muslims and Christians in Spain and France, where it changed traditional Christian pacifistic thinking on war, brought into being a coterie of Christian warrior saints, and provided the Catholic Church with its ideological justification for the Crusades. Ideology—whether religious or secular—has remained a primary component of military ventures ever since.
Muhammad forged the military instrument of the Arab conquests that began within two years of his death by bringing into being a completely new kind of army not seen before in Arabia.
He introduced no fewer than eight major military reforms that transformed the armies and conduct of war in Arabia. Just as Philip of Macedon transformed the armies of Greece so his successor, Alexander, could employ them as instruments of conquest and empire, Muhammad transformed the armies of Arabia so his successors could use them to defeat the armies of Persia and Byzantium and establish the heartland of the empire of Islam.
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One of Muhammad’s most important innovations was convincing his troops that they were doing God’s work on earth. There were of course soldiers of other faiths who fought on religious grounds. But no army before Muhammad’s ever placed religion at the center of military motivation and defined the soldier primarily as an instrument of God’s will on earth.
The soldiers of Islam came to see themselves as fighting under God’s instructions. The result, still evident in Islamic societies today, was a soldier who enjoyed much higher social status and respect than soldiers in Western armies.
A central element to an Islamic soldier’s motivation in Muhammad’s day was the idea that death was not something to be feared but rather embraced. Muhammad’s pronouncement that those killed in battle would be welcomed immediately into a paradise of pleasure and eternal life was a powerful inducement to perform well in combat.
To die fighting in defense of the faith was to fulfill God’s will and become a martyr. Life itself was subordinate to the needs of the faith. Muslim soldiers killed in battle were accorded the highest respect on the Arab scale of values.
While those who died in battle had formerly been celebrated as examples of courage and selflessness, before Muhammad it was never suggested that death was to be welcomed or required to be a good soldier.
Muhammad’s teachings changed the traditional Arab view of military sacrifice and produced a far more dedicated soldier than Arab armies had ever witnessed before.
Arab warfare prior to Muhammad’s reforms involved clans and tribes fighting for honor or loot.
No commander aimed at the enslavement or extermination of the enemy, nor the occupation of his lands. Arab warfare had been tactical warfare, nothing more. There was no sense of strategic war in which long-term, grand strategic objectives were sought and toward which the tactical application of force was directed.
Muhammad was the first to introduce to the Arabs the notion of war for strategic goals. His ultimate goal, the transformation of Arab society through the spread of a new religion, was strategic in concept. Muhammad’s application of force and violence, whether unconventional or conventional, was always directed at this strategic goal. Although he began as the founder of an insurgency, he was always Clausewitzian in his view that the use of force was a tactical means to the achievement of larger strategic objectives. Had Muhammad not introduced this new way of thinking to Arab warfare, the use of later Arab armies to forge a world empire would
not only have been impossible, it would have been unthinkable.
Once war was harnessed to strategic objectives, it became possible to expand its application to introduce tactical dimensions that were completely new to Arab warfare. Muhammad attacked tribes, towns, and garrisons before they could form hostile coalitions; he isolated his enemies by severing their economic lifelines and disrupting their lines of communication; he was a master at political negotiation, forming alliances with pagan tribes when it served his interests; and he laid siege to cities and towns. He also introduced the new dimension of psychological warfare, employing terror and massacre as means to weaken the will of his enemies.
Begin Three Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs – Daily Alert
Excerpt 1 – Begin Middle East Strategy at Havard
Islam’s War Doctrines Ignored
Raymond Ibrahim
The exploits and stratagems of the prophet Muhammad still serve as an example to modern-day jihadists. In 2006, former top Pentagon official William Gawthrop noted, “We still do not have an in-depth understanding of the war-fighting doctrine laid down by Muhammad, how it might be applied today by an increasing number of Islamic groups, or how it might be countered.” Based on the words and deeds of Muhammad, most schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree that the following are all legitimate during war against the infidel: the indiscriminate use of missile weaponry, even if women and children are present (catapults in Muhammad’s 7th century, hijacked planes or WMD by analogy today); THE NEED TO ALWAYS DECEIVE THE ENEMY AND EVEN BREAK FORMAL TREATIES WHENEVER POSSIBLE; AND THAT THE ONLY FUNCTION OF THE PEACE TREATY, OR HUDNA, IS TO GIVE THE ISLAMIC ARMIES TIME TO REGROUP FOR A RENEWED OFFENSIVE, AND SHOULD, IN THEORY, LAST NO MORE THAN TEN YEARS.
One of Islam’s more “eternal” doctrines is the Abode of War versus the Abode of Islam dichotomy, which in essence maintains THAT ISLAM MUST ALWAYS BE IN A STATE OF ANIMOSITY VIS-À-VIS THE INFIDEL WORLD AND, WHENEVER POSSIBLE, MUST WAGE WARS UNTIL ALL INFIDEL TERRITORY HAS BEEN BROUGHT UNDER ISLAMIC RULE. (Middle East Strategy at Harvard)
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Hamas Says Smuggling to Gaza Will Continue
AFP
Smuggling into Gaza will not stop, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya told worshippers before Friday prayers. Reacting to Haniya’s remarks, Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, underlined that the Egyptian-brokered truce explicitly stated that arms smuggling must halt. “The agreement with Egypt states clearly that there must not be any contraband arms heading for Gaza and no attacks from Gaza towards Israeli territory by any of the armed groups.” Israeli security sources say Hamas has smuggled more than 100 tons of explosives into Gaza, including rockets and anti-tank missiles, since the Islamists seized control in June 2007.
(AFP)
Excerpt 3 – Begin Xinhua-China Excerpt
Hamas: Negotiations with Israel Out of the Question
A spokesman for Hamas, Ismail Radwan, on Saturday said negotiations with Israel are out of the question and the Islamic movement will never recognize “the enemy.” “We are not thinking of trying the ridiculous negotiations that the others have tried,” he said. (Xinhua-China)
Excerpt 4 – Begin Haaretz Excerpt
Terror Activity, Arms Smuggling Stepped Up in Gaza
Barak Ravid
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) has identified a recent increase in terrorist activity in Gaza, Yuval Diskin, the head of the intelligence agency, said Sunday. He added that arms smuggling had been stepped up, as well as training. Diskin added that major terror attacks were in the works on the eve of the cease-fire. On June 22, Hamas planned to drive two booby-trapped vehicles into Israel through a hole in the fence to have been made by an armored tractor.
However, one of the booby-trapped vehicles exploded in a Hamas operative’s home. (Ha’aretz)
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