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...bombs, and in the meantime his regime had been pummeled. When he got back to Kandahar, Omar fired two faithless deputies and passed the word that he would deliver the noon sermon at the Halqa Cherif mosque. The mosque houses a robe said to have belonged to the Prophet Muhammad, so Omar must have figured the Americans would never bomb it. U.S. commanders may have known he was there. An eyewitness told TIME that American warplanes blitzed a convoy that may have been shepherding Omar as it left Kandahar, killing several Taliban bodyguards...
These writers allege that violence is fundamentally written into the ideology of Islam, and thus a clash of civilizations is inevitable between Islam and the West. From Douthat, we learn that this ideology comes from the Prophet of Islam himself, “a Prophet who makes war—in self-defense, arguably, but with a glad heart, a war-like spirit...a spirit that divides the world into the House of Islam and the House of Unbelief, and declares irrevocable enmity between them.” Where, in all that we know about the life of the Prophet...
...years the leaders of Mecca tortured and oppressed the Prophet and his followers, forcing them to flee the city. For another decade the Meccans waged a war of annihilation against them. Despite over 20 years of persecution, the Prophet’s victorious return to Mecca was unmarred by violence. Before a fearful crowd of Meccan leaders, this supposedly vengeful Prophet proclaims in the words of Joseph to his brothers, “This day, there is no reproof against you!” He even renounces the claims of Muslims upon the property confiscated from them in the years...
...seem familiar from today’s Geneva Conventions—even if continuously violated in world of total warfare and “collateral damage.” But for the Muslim, these rules were not devised over time, but come directly from the teachings of the Prophet 14 centuries...
...insinuates that the Prophet’s example declares “irrevocable enmity” between Muslims and non-Muslims. Yet all evidence speaks to the contrary. Consider for example, the Charter of Privileges to the monks of the St. Catherine Monastery in Mt. Sinai, in which the Prophet swears to “hold out against anything that displeases them” and promises that Muslims shall defend the monks. Property and freedom of access were guaranteed protection. There are at least a handful of “democratic” allies of the U.S. that...