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PRAY FOR POWs: ISLAMIC WEB SITE TELLS WHAT THEY MIGHT EXPECT

Jeremy Reynalds
March 25, 2003

Islamic website says POWs can be ransomed, exchanged for Muslim prisoners, let go, given as slaves or killed.

• While a Muslim public relations group is trying to peddle an image of Islam as a peace loving religion, the truth is very different. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR, http://www.cair-net.org) wants to combat negative stereotypes about Islam and to show how much Muslims have in common with Christians and Jews.
• Knowing that Islam is not in any way the peace loving religion it is portrayed to be by CAIR, I wondered how our American prisoners of war might fare under the Butcher of Baghdad and his country's Islamic regime. I went to a quite well known Islamic question and answer site to see if I could find any "official" answers.
• Some of what I first read about the treatment of POWs was quite encouraging: "They (Islamics) should not harm them (the POWs) or torture them with beatings, depriving them of food and water, leaving them out in the sun or the cold, burning them with fire, or putting covers over their mouths, ears and eyes and putting them in cages like animals (emphasis in the original). Rather they should treat them with kindness and mercy, feed them well and encourage them to enter Islam."
• However, what came next did not portray the sort of cozy image that CAIR is trying to cultivate about Islam. "Prisoners should be detained until it is decided what is the best move. The ruler of the Muslims should detain prisoners until he decides what is in the Muslims' best interests. He may ransom them for money, or exchange them for Muslim prisoners, or release them for nothing in return, or distribute them among the Muslims as slaves, or kill the men, but not the women and children, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) forbade killing the latter. The purpose behind detaining prisoners is so that the Muslims may be protected from their evil."
• Another segment of the same article dealt with rules for the tying up of prisoners. It read in part: "It is well known that if prisoners are able to escape they will not hesitate to do so, because they may be afraid of dying and they do not know what awaits them. Hence the Muslims were commanded to tie up their prisoners and to tie their hands to their necks, lest they run away. This is something that still happens and is well known to all people."
• Figuring that CAIR would say that the radical verbiage I had found was not typical of Islam, I looked for other material. I didn't have to search for long. A recent Associated Press report headlined "Iraq War Fuels Flames of Muslim Rage" read that "From mosques to the Internet, Muslims around the world are increasingly expressing anger at the US attack on Iraq in radical religious terms."
• According to the AP, influential Indian Islamic cleric Syed Ahmed Bukhari said, "The war between right and wrong has begin. This is a Jihad" (a holy war). In the same article, Dia'a Rashwan, an expert on radical Islamic groups at Egypt's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said that calls to Jihad are becoming much more routine on Internet sites and chat rooms. "'Now we have many calls to Jihad, and those calls aren't only coming from what we usually call radicals or extremists.' More moderate clerics are using similar language, as are Islamic thinkers who usually confine themselves to political analysis, not calls to arms." Interestingly, this article was posted verbatim on a radical Islamic chat site (http://as-sahwah.com/discus/).
• While some people may argue that engaging in "Jihad" doesn't necessarily just mean going out and fighting, I was curious as to what answers there were on the Islamic question and answer web site I had visited previously. One writer quoted from Sheikh Abdal-Azeez ibn Baaz, who said:

  "Jihad is of various kinds, with one's self, one's wealth, by making du'aa', by teaching and guiding, by helping to do good in any way. The greatest form of Jihad is Jihad with one's self (i.e., going oneself and fighting), followed by Jihad with one's wealth, Jihad by speaking out and guiding others. Da'wah is also part of Jihad. But going out oneself to fight in Jihad is the highest form."

• Another article on the same site was very clear about the importance Muslims attach to Jihad. "Jihad to make the word of Allah supreme, to protect the religion of Islam, to enable spreading the faith and to protect the things it holds sacred, is an obligation upon everyone who is able to do it. But this necessitates organizing and sending armies, lest it result in chaos leading to bad consequences. So initiating it is one of the tasks of the Muslim ruler, and the 'ulamaa' should encourage it. If Jihad begins and the Muslims are mobilized, then everyone who is able should answer the call, sincerely for the sake of Allah, hoping for truth to prevail and to protect Islam. Whoever holds back from that when the call has been made, with no valid excuse, is a sinner."
• So what's the truth about Islam? Well, the individuals behind www.JihadOnline.net left me in no doubt at all as to where they stand. In an article titled "Iraq Special Report: Baghdad Bombing and Western Media," the author wrote in part (sic):

  "InshaAllah Muslims around the world will wake up and do what's right. Help their brethren country against these evil invaders. Unite together and send a message to the world that we shall not stand on the sideline and watch Muslims get slaughtered anywhere on the world. If this does not happen, then this will surely be a black chapter in the history, which will be remembered as the time when Muslims allowed a fellow Muslim country get destroyed and occupied. A second Palestine in the make."

• Is this out of context too? No! It just proves the point of the Rev. Gene Youngblood who put on a sign outside his Jacksonville, Fla., church. Whereas Jesus in Matthew 26:52 forbade murder, Muhammad approved.
• Here's what that portion of the Koran reads: "O Prophet, urge the believers to fight. If there are 20 steadfast persons among you, they will overcome two hundreds, and if there be a hundred steadfast persons they will overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they (the disbelievers) are people who do not understand."
• With that in mind, pray like you have never done before for the safety and well being of our POWs and troops. They need the help and strength of the Lord Jesus Christ. With Muhammad they quite literally don't have a prayer!