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Terrorism Works

Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Apostle said, "I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy)."

Bukhari 52.220

Allah, like Muhammad considered mass killings as essential to instilling terror “in the hearts of the enemy.”

8:57 So, if you should come upon them in the war, scatter (punish them severely) them with those behind them, that perchance they may pay heed.

Additional translations that are even more to the point:

8:57 If thou find them at war [with you], make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them, so that they might take it to heart.

Muhammad Assad

8:57 If thou comest (sic) on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember.

M. M. Pickthall

Terrorism made Muhammad, and Allah, victorious because it works!

American Example

In March 2015, New York City announced that, henceforth, students in its public school system would get the day off in recognition of the Muslim holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan and the holiday celebrating the end of the Hajj.

New York City public schools to close doors on two Muslim holidays

Under the new policy, the city’s 1.1-million-pupil public school system will close for Eid al-Adha, which is also known as the Festival of Sacrifice (celebrates the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice a son) [and] Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan.

The Associated Press, Mar. 04 2015

The city of New York would never have shown this level of respect for Islam had it not been for 9/11. Muhammad often waited until the feast of Id-ul-fitr (Eid al-Fitr), and that of Id-ul-Adha (Eid-ul-Adha), with his followers more convinced than ever of the need to rid the world of unbelievers after a period of intense immersion in the Koran, to give his army its marching orders.

Narrated Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri:

The Prophet used to proceed to the Musalla (open space outside a mosque that is mainly used for praying,) on the days of Id-ul-fitr and Id-ul-Adha; the first thing to begin with was the prayer and after that he would stand in front of the people and the people would keep sitting in their rows. Then he would preach to them, advise them and give them orders, (i.e. Khutba). And after that if he wished to send an army for an expedition, he would do so.

Bukhari 15.76

Spanish Example

On March 11, 2004, 193 commuters were killed and almost 2,000 injured, many experiencing horrible life-changing injuries, when ten bombs were detonated on four Madrid-area trains during rush hour. The carnage would have been even greater had three bombs not failed to explode.

On April 18th the Spanish government announced it was repatriating its 1,300 troop contribution to the US-led ill-advised invasion of Iraq. In the fight against ISIS, Spain kept a low profile, limiting its contribution to a few hundred troops, mainly for training purposes. It learned its lesson the hard way and did not want a refresher. That would also explain its lack of interest in attempting to stem an Islamic insurgency closer to home in the sub-Sahara.

British Example

After the London bombings of July 2005, the British government saw to it that no serious discussion about the book or the advocate of terror that inspired the slaughter of 54 British citizens ever took place. It silenced critics of Islam with threats of fines and imprisonment. A tacit bargain was struck with those for whom terrorism is a means to an end. Put away your bombs, guns and knives and you will be allowed to recruit, largely unopposed, in our corner of the Land of War (anywhere the Sharia is not the law of the land).

The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 was given royal assent on February 16, 2006. From one day to the next, the country that fought a world war to preserve us from genocidal fanatics became a more tolerant and intolerant society. More tolerant of religious zealots, not unlike those in the following Daily Mail photograph who disrupted Armistice Day 2010 commemorations in central London, and less tolerant of their critics because of a brutal act of terrorism.

Since this appeasement act went into effect, there have been, at this writing, at least five terrorist attacks in the UK where people were killed. The worst in terms of fatalities: the Manchester arena bombing.

French Example

On Friday November 13, 2015, 130, mostly young people attending a concert in Paris were murdered by holy warriors with guns. After that massacre, France closed 20 of 2,500 mosques for allegedly preaching a radical interpretation of Islam.

In July 2016, 86 people, including 10 children, were crushed to death in Nice by a 19-ton transport truck. The following month, France's Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, announced that his government would be working with the French Muslim Council to launch a foundation to help finance mosques within France using the fiction that terrorism on French soil was a result of mosques built with foreign money.

The slaughter in Paris caused a halt to what the Nice massacre reversed. The murder of children in such a horrible manner was enough to convince the French government that what the county needed was more mosques. More proof that terrorism works if you are willing to be brutal enough.

Canadian Example

When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network, a series of semi-autonomous British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology, I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy. By blaming the government for our actions ... [they] did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.

Hassan Butt, My plea to fellow Muslims, The Observer

In Canada, convert Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot a soldier standing at attention next to the tomb of Canada’s Unknown Soldier before making his way into the Parliament buildings where he was riddled with bullets. Martin Couture-Rouleau sat in an idling car for almost two hours beside a Tim Hortons in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu before he spotted two Canadian Armed Forces officers and rammed them, killing one and injuring the other. He was later shot to death by police.

These are relatively minor acts of terror compared to those described so far; nonetheless they had the desired impact in gaining respect for Islam and converts to Allah’s Cause, just has such acts did during the time of Muhammad.

The leader of one of Ottawa’s largest mosques says he’s concerned about the spike in the number of young men who have wanted to convert to Islam since October’s terrorist attack in the nation’s capital.

Ottawa Citizen, Jan 15, 2014