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JEHAD AND PARADISE





                          Islam is one faith, which has divided humanity into two per-
                          manently warring factions: those who believe in Allah and
                          Muhammad, are the God's Party, and those who do not, are
                          the Devil's Party. The former have the most sacred duty to
                          eliminate and subdue the latter. So urgent is this purpose
                          that Islam not only encourages its followers to murder,
                          plunder and seduce the women of the infidels but also pro-
                          jects such murder, plunder and seduction as the greatest vir-
                          tues. Islam calls it "Jehad", which guarantees the Mujahid
                          (holy warrior) salvation i.e. a seat in Paradise.



                                             by Anwar Shaikh
                                                 Part One


               Since Jehad is the sure means of access to paradise, the abode of choicest carnal-delights-
        after-death, sex and violence combine to form the basic approach of Islam to coax man into a web
        of salvation. This is the most effective exploitation of his natural fear and sense of uncertainty.


               What is Jehad? Let the Koran explain it:

               a. "God has bought from the faithful their selves and their belongings against the gift of
               paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill and get killed; that is a promise binding on
               Allah... (Repentance, 9: 110)

               b. "Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what God and
               His Messenger have forbidden -- such men as practice not the religion of truth, being of
               those who have been given the Book -- until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been
               humbled." (Repentance, 9: 25)

               The above two Koranic verses delineate that  Jehad  is a binding contract between Allah
        and Muslims to the following effect:

        1/. Whatever a Muslim possesses, including his life, belongs to Allah in return for paradise.


        2/. Allah is bound by His promise to offer paradise to a Muslim provided he willingly kills and
        gets killed for His pleasure.

        3/. The Muslims must fight non-Muslims.





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