Toward a Jihadist Caliphate
by Nils A. Haug, Gatestone Institute:
On February 9, 2024, Imam Sheikh Abdul Salam Zoud at the Masjid As-Sunnah Lakemba in Sydney, Australia, made the following live-streamed pronouncement:
“There is no solution other than Jihad which continues until Judgement Day. The Prophet Muhammad, the Righteous Caliphs – none of them conquered the world by peaceful means. They conquered it through Jihad. The goal of Jihad for the sake of Allah is not to kill people and take over their lands. Rather, the goal of Jihad is to remove obstacles before the spreading and rule of Islam.”
The Imam’s statement might come across as a bit disingenuous. Although it appears to publicly eschew the elimination of unbelievers (infidels) – meaning those who do not embrace jihad, including Jews, Christians, and devotees of all other religions – he explains that “conquering the world” is not possible other than through jihad. He describes this action as “removing obstacles,” a euphemism for the destruction of those opposed to establishment of a global Islamist Caliphate, a ‘nizam Islami‘ (Islamic order), ruled through totalitarian Sharia law. This even includes the distant nations of Australia and New Zealand, where radical Islamists wish to share their gift of Allah, by force if necessary, with the entire planet.
The exposure of jihadists’ far-reaching desires is evident from the October 10th, 2023, unruly Sydney Harbour demonstration in favour of the jihadist group, Hamas, during which Israel – and Jews – were vilified, threatened with death and destruction, without recourse of any kind. The demonstration is reflected the Imam’s conviction, above, that, “these people only understand the language of force.” For extremists, religion appears to be much of their motivating factor as the Imam went on to explain:
“This is the purpose of fighting and waging Jihad against the enemies of Islam – to fend off their evil from the religion of Islam, and to defend Allah’s religion, which was created to reign supreme over all other religions…”
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