Letter: We can’t trust those bent upon our destruction

As best can be surmised from the writings in the Hadith and Sira, the Islamic chronicles of the Muhammad’s life, the prophet, persecuted in Mecca moved his followers 300 miles north to Medina, where the Muslim community became a political entity central to Islam. From this base he began raids on the Meccan caravans which started a war lasting 10 years until Mecca fell to the Muslims. Critics of Islam were put to death, and wars were waged in Allah’s name against Jews and Christians. When the Jews of Qurayza surrendered they were confined to Medina, where the apostle had trenches dug in the market, and struck off the heads of between 600-700 men or more, while dividing up the property, women, and children among his men and taking a fifth of the spoils for himself. Women and prepubescent girls were used for slaves and sex. Muhammad himself took a 9-year-old wife, because of a dream which convinced him it was God’s will.

After the fall of Mecca, Muhammad received Surah 9:29 which says, Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgement of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. In other words, fight non- Muslims until they submit to Islam. In further verses the words of the Quran urges followers to kill all who reject Allah in Jihad, a religious duty, a test which those who kill pass.

Radical Islam is about establishing a caliphate, which is an Islamist state led by a caliph, a political and religious leader, and a successor to the prophet, with absolute power and authority. The violent verses of the Quran have played a key role in massacres and genocide, and the slaughter of millions of Hindus for five centuries.

Islam never gives up what it conquers, does not tolerate, openly practices every standard by which the West is condemned, including slavery, imperialism, intolerance, misogyny, sexual repression and warfare, and is given weight by the Quran’s divine command.

How then do you trust a theocracy bent on your destruction and determined to take over the world?

The Syrian refugee crisis poses a threat to any country since ISIS has already used the event to smuggle radicals into other nations with terrible prophesized results. Wednesday a clearly radical terrorist of the Islamic faith began and ended his Jihad in San Bernardino. How many more will we allow?