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"The EU agreed to turn Europe into an Arabian Islamic continent, in return for trade essentially"
"there are of course demographic projections from other people, such as at the rightwing blog HonestThinking, who have “with clear logic claimed that Norway […] may have a Muslim majority as early as around 2040 or 2050” (Berg 2007, 52)."
"the statistics cited in Eurabia literature for fertility rates, demographic trends and percentages of Muslims appear, without exception, to be seriously flawed."
"The USA will remain the only superpower. China is becoming an economic giant. Europe is being Islamicized."
"Stripped of its Islamic content, the broad contours of Ye’or’s preposterous thesis recall the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the first half of the twentieth century and contemporary notions of the ‘Zionist Occupation Government’ prevalent in far-right circles in the US."
"According to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority Muslim country anyway in about 50 years [...] I get a lot of e-mails from Americans who think that Europeans are spineless. And I think they're right."
"Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony...In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism."
"Sono quattr' anni che parlo di nazismo islamico, di guerra all' Occidente, di culto della morte, di suicidio dell' Europa. Un' Europa che non è più Europa ma Eurabia e che con la sua mollezza, la sua inerzia, la sua cecità, il suo asservimento al nemico si sta scavando la propria tomba."
"Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense."
"According to some, one out of three babies born in France is a Muslim."
"The data that we have isn't pointing in the direction of 'Eurabia' at all"
"Eurabia : The Euro-Arab Axis partage certaines de ses certitudes avec l'extrême droite. L'ouvrage cède allègrement à la paranoïa du complot"
"There is a quite deliberate exaggeration, as has often been pointed out—but the figures are still being cited."
"I think you should have titled your conference the Protocols of the Wise of Brussels [...] I think it's a conspiracy theory."
"Europe will be part of the Arab West, the Maghreb. This is what migration will mean for demography. Europeans marry late and have little or no children. But it has strong immigration: Turks in Germany, Arabs in France and Pakistanis in England. They marry early and have many children. According to the current trends Europe will have Muslim majorities in the population at the end of the 21st century at the latest."
"Mark Steyn for instance wrote a wonderfull book [...] Bat Ye'or of course, a great scholar, a great writer, with famous Eurabia [...] More than half the children in Amsterdam schools are non-Dutch [...] It will happen during our lifetime. This is not the distant future. 11 years until you lose the Netherlands"
"More than any other continent or culture in the world today, Europe is now deeply weighed down with guilt for its past. Alongside this outgoing version of self-distrust runs a more introverted version of the same guilt. For there is also the problem in Europe of an existential tiredness and a feeling that perhaps for Europe the story has run out and a new story must be allowed to begin. Mass immigration — the replacement of large parts of the European populations by other people — is one way in which this new story has been imagined: a change, we seemed to think, was as good as a rest. Such existential civilizational tiredness is not a uniquely modern-European phenomenon, but the fact that a society should feel like it has run out of steam at precisely the moment when a new society has begun to move in cannot help but lead to vast, epochal changes."
"[P]op prophets tell us that Muslims in Europe are reproducing so fast and European societies are so weak and listless that, before you know it, the continent will become "Eurabia," with all the topless gals on the Rivera wearing veils. Well, maybe not. The notion that continental Europeans, who are world-champion haters, will let the impoverished Muslim immigrants they confine to ghettos take over their societies and extent the caliphate from the Amalfi Coast to Amsterdam has it exactly wrong... Muslims are hardly welcome to pick up the trash on Europe's playgrounds. Don't let Europe's current round of playing pacifist dress up fool you: This is the continent that perfected genocide and ethnic cleansing, the happy-go-lucky slice of humanity that brought us such recent hits as the Holocaust and Srebenica... [H]istorical patterns are clear: When Europeans feel sufficiently threatened–even when the threat's concocted nonsense–they don't just react, they overreact with stunning ferocity. One of their more humane (and frequently employed) techniques has been ethnic cleansing."
"Europeans have enjoyed a comfy ride for the last sixty years–but the very fact that they don't want it to stop increases their rage and sense of being besieged by Muslim minorities they've long refused to assimilate (and which no longer want to assimilate)... When Europeans feel sufficiently provoked and threatened–a few serious terrorist attacks could do it–Europe's Muslims will be lucky just to be deported..."
"Europeans have just been better organized for genocide... Far from enjoying the prospect of taking over Europe by having babies, Europe’s Muslims are living on borrowed time... European Muslims can't become French or Dutch or Italian or German. Even if they qualify for a passport, they remain second-class citizens. On a good day. And they're supposed to take over the continent that's exported more death than any other? ... All the copy-cat predictions of a Muslim takeover of Europe not only ignore history and Europe’s ineradicable viciousness and Europe's ineradicable piousness, but do a serious disservice by exacerbating fear and hatred. And when it comes to hatred, trust me: The Europeans don't need our help."
"Picture a French election circa 2020, 2025: the Islamic Republican Coalition wins the most seats in the National Assembly."
"It seems more likely [...] that by 2010 we’ll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations [in EU] on American network news every night."
"I'm a "social conservative." When the mullahs take over, I'll grow my beard a little fuller, get a couple extra wives, and keep my head down. It's the feminists and gays who'll have a tougher time."
"the evidence suggests a third of all births [in France] are already Muslim."
"The analysis is clear, we have a great problem with Islam, in the Netherlands too. The solution is not so complicated; what is missing are political guts and a feeling of urgency. Immigration from Islamic countries should be forbidden. We must learn to be intolerant with the intolerant, in the street, in the mosque and in court. We must answer hatred and violence from terrorists with exclusion and intolerance and show who's the boss in The Netherlands."
"I've had enough of the Quran in The Netherlands: ban that fascist book."
"Islam is the Trojan Horse in Europe. If we do not stop Islamification now, Eurabia and Netherabia will just be a matter of time. One century ago, there were approximately 50 Muslims in the Netherlands. Today, there are about 1 million Muslims in this country. Where will it end? We are heading for the end of European and Dutch civilisation as we know it."
"People are fed up with the criminality and the taxes they have to pay, which are the result of the islamisation of The Netherlands."
"Immigrants with a double nationality, who commit a crime, such as those many Moroccan street terrorists who are a hazard to the safety of large parts of The Netherlands, they have to hand in their Dutch passport and will leave the country."
"Islam is something we can't afford any more in the Netherlands. I want the fascist Koran banned. We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands. That means no more mosques, no more Islamic schools, no more imams... Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims."
"Taqiyya is a well-known term in the Islamic world. It means that muslims who do not live in a muslim country (yet) often don't say everything they really think. But at the moment that the Islamic culture gets stronger there will also be muslims, who are now being seen as moderate, who follow along in the compulsive strictness of the Koran and its ideology. The term comes from the muslim world itself and should therefore not be underestimated. Therefore it is too easy to say that there are enough muslims who participate in our society. It does not say anything about how they are going to behave once there are more muslims represented in The Netherlands... The more dominant the Islamic culture in The Netherlands will be, the more distant we will become from anything that has to do with freedom, tolerance and equality. Because the Islam – in contrast with other religions – will not accept anything else but the Islam. The society will change for the worse. It is no 'clash of civilisations', but a collision between culture and barbarism and retardedness."
"The more dominant the Islamic culture in The Netherlands will be, the more distant we will become from anything that has to do with freedom, tolerance and equality. Because the Islam – in contrast with other religions – will not accept anything else but the Islam. The society will change for the worse. It is no 'clash of civilisations', but a collision between culture and barbarism and retardedness."
"Die lak hebben aan de belangen van de Nederlandse burger en meewerken aan de transformatie van Nederland in Nederabië als provincie van de islamitische superstaat Eurabië."
"In France approximately ten percent of the population are Muslims."
"a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now."
"Enthousiast werkt dit kabinet mee aan de islamisering van Nederland. In heel Europa zet de elite de sluizen open. Nog even en dan is één op de vijf mensen in de Europese Unie moslim."
"Libyan dictator Gaddafi said: "There are tens of millions of Muslims in the European continent today and their number is on the increase. This is the clear indication that the European continent will be converted into Islam. Europe will one day soon be a Muslim continent". End of quote. Indeed, for once in his life, Gaddafi was telling the truth. Because, remember: mass immigration and demographics is destiny!"
"All over Europe multicultural elites are waging total war against their populations. Their goal is to continue the strategy of mass-immigration, which will ultimately result in an Islamic Europe – a Europe without freedom: Eurabia."
"I have a panic room in my house, where I am supposed to take refuge if one of the adherents of the "religion of peace" makes it past my permanent security detail and into my home. In fact, it's not really my home at all—I live in a government safe house, heavily protected and bulletproof. Since November 2004, when a Muslim murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh for the crime of offending Islam, I have been surrounded by police guards and stripped of nearly all personal privacy. I am driven every day from the safe house to my office in the Dutch Parliament building in armored police cars with sirens and flashing blue lights. I wear a bulletproof jacket when I speak in public. Always surrounded by plainclothes police officers, I have not walked the streets on my own in more than seven years... Why do I need this protection? I am not a president or a king; I am a mere member of the Dutch Parliament, one of 150 elected parliamentarians in the Tweede Kamer, the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, a small country of 16.5 million in Western Europe. However, I have joined Westergaard in a rapidly growing group of individuals throughout the world who have been marked for death for criticizing Islam. For asserting our rights to say what we really think about this political ideology that disguises itself as a religion, we have been hounded by Muslims seeking to make an example of us. Offend us, they are saying to the world, and you will end up in hiding like Wilders, attacked like Westergaard, or dead like van Gogh."
"The Dutch example shows that when people overcome their fear, David can defeat Goliath."
"In my fight for freedom and against the Islamization of the Netherlands, I will never let anyone silence me. No matter the cost, no matter by whom, whatever the consequences may be."
"Europe's economic greed was instrumentalized by Arab League policy in a long-term political strategy targeting Israel, Europe, and America. […] Through the labyrinth of the EAD system, a policy of Israel's delegitimization was planned at both the EC's national and international levels. […] Strategically, the Euro-Arab Cooperation was a political instrument for anti-Americanism in Europe, whose aim was to separate and weaken the two continents by an incitement to hostility and the permanent denigration of American policy in the Middle East ."
"Les populations européennes [...] furent, des décennies durant, soumises à une idéologie médiatisée démonisant Israël."
"The truth is that for 30 years the Europeans were with the terrorists. They can’t fight the Arabs; they have allowed the Arabs to dictate their policy since 1974."
"Cet engrenage qui fait de l'Europe le nouveau continent de la dhimmitude, s'est mis en marche depuis 30 ans à l'instigation de la France."
"A machinery that has made Europe the new continent of dhimmitude was put into motion more than 30 years ago at the instigation of France."
"Eurabia is a tangible entity [...] Eurabia’s destiny was sealed when it decided, willingly, to become a covert partner with the Arab global jihad against America and Israel."
"Europeans, prisoners of a Eurabian totalitarianism"
"Eurabia represents a geo-political reality [..] Western Europe [...] future is Eurabia. Period. [...] Generations grew up within this political framework; they were educated and conditioned to support it and go along with it."
"L'Europe est devenue le nouveau continent de la dhimmitude, où on ne livre pas bataille parce que l'on s'est déjà soumis sans se battre [...] Eurabia est à la fois un partenariat avec le monde arabo-musulman et une stratégie menée discrètement, en dehors des traités officiels [...] Les Arabes mirent plusieurs conditions à cette association : une politique européenne indépendante de celle de l'Amérique, la reconnaissance par l'Europe d'un État palestinien, le soutien à l'OLP, le retrait d'Israël sur les lignes d'armistice de 1949, la souveraineté arabe sur Jérusalem."
"I don't see a solution."
"Europeans are not reproducing. Soon, the 60-- and 70--year--olds will die. And there are no Europeans to replace them."
"over the last 30 years, Europeans have lived in a culture of hate and lies directed against Israel, which are expressed in the media from morning to night. It is a continual indoctrination of hate, not much different in its deliberate policy and planning from the 1920-40 period."
"it looks as if the EU has adopted the totalitarian mentality of its best friends and allies"
"Europeans have been unwittingly victims during thiry years of constant indoctrination"
"This Euro-Arab synergy contribued to the emergence of a totalitarian subculture."
"For thirty years now, Europeans have been subjected to a permanent campaign of disinformation"
"It is clear that the EU was creating a gigantic machinery involving politics and cuture in order to condition European minds."
"the totalitarian censorship and control of [European] intellectual life are the foremost result of these dialogues."
"In the news Eurabian totalitarian culture, basic freedoms seems to be dispensable."
"Anti-Semitism has become part of Europe's banal political culture."
"il s'agit [...] d'une culture antisémite élaborée à un haut niveau politique, imposée et distillée quotidiennement [...] aux Européens"
"Depuis trente ans, les Européens sont soumis à une campagne de désinformation permanente"
"[a] process of surrender and moral support to jihadist ideology that is rotting Europe [...] I think that it is, precisely, "Palestinianism" which is at the root of Europe's decadence. [...] Europeans are [...] conditioned by Palestinianism to hate America and Israel"
"I think that European anti-Semitism was created by the European states. It is a culture that has been imposed over the European people in order to develop this anti-Israeli cultural and political war. [...] Europe has built its security system on the hate of Israel, on the hate of America and with the alliance with Arab and Jihadist movements and Palestinian movements."
"For 40 years Eurabia has built its networks, its finance, its hegemonous power, its totalitarian control over the media, the universities, the culture and the mind of people."
"la culture antisémite qui est imposée et diffusée par les "élites européennes" politiques contrôlant par les réseaux eurabiens, les universités, les medias, les publications et la culture [...] Les Européens ne se rendent pas compte de l’ampleur de la toile eurabienne qui touche tous les secteurs : politique, économique, culturel, religieux, médiatique, universitaire, tissé depuis quarante ans."
"Indeed, the freedom of expression and thought that has been so crucial for European democracy has disappeared."
"l’insegnamento nelle università, nella cultura, nell’editoria viene controllato in gran parte dalla Anna Lindh Foundation o dalla Alleanza delle civilizzazioni"
"Ceux qui nient Eurabia sont ceux qui y participent. Car Eurabia se passe de démonstration. Elle est là en nous et autour de nous, ce n’est pas la réalité de demain mais celle d’aujourd’hui."
"a Western world which is corroding, which is [...] Decaying. And which doesn't even reproduce itself. [...] The youth don't get married, don't have children."
"Il a inculqué à l’échelle européenne une culture antisémite"
"L’Europe a choisi la soumission dès 1973"
"Nier l’existence d’Eurabia est stupide"
"L’alliance secrète de chefs d’État européens avec le jihadisme palestinien contre Israël représente la pierre angulaire de la politique euro-méditerranéenne de fusion des deux rives de la Méditerranée. […] Elle promeut la soumission, supprime la liberté d’expression par la terreur et enseigne la conception jihadiste palestinienne de l’histoire et de la civilisation."
"Aujourd’hui ceux qui répandent partout des théories conspirationnistes pour dissimuler et soustraire à la connaissance du public les preuves historiques de la naissance et des accords d’Eurabia font eux-mêmes partie des conspirateurs cherchant à étouffer à tout prix la liberté d’expression."
"l’Europe antisémite et islamisée d’aujourd’hui. [...] L’Europe d’aujourd’hui n’est pas le fruit du hasard. Elle fut voulue par les hommes d’États, les ministres, les économistes, les intellectuels des décennies précédentes."
"L’Europe y consacra des milliards d’euros, finançant une campagne de haine mondiale contre l’État hébreu, l’enveloppant d’un apartheid diplomatique soutenu par le jihad des boycotts. Ainsi orchestra-t-elle le retour en Europe de l’antisémitisme surfant sur la haine d’Israël. Aujourd’hui [...] l’Europe s’emploie à remplacer au plus vite Israël par la Palestine afin que cesse le scandale d’un État hébreu souverain dans sa patrie. Aussi ne serai-je pas étonnée de la voir expédier ses bombardiers de l’OTAN couvrir de feu le sol israélien pour y faire naître la Palestine et remplir ses engagements envers le monde arabe."
"[Les] pays [européens], certaines Églises, l’Union européenne sont parmi les plus grands pourvoyeurs d’antisémitisme au niveau mondial."
"Coloro che mi hanno attaccato sono degli antisemiti e degli antieuropei, islamofili favorevoli all’islamizzazione dell’Europa."
"there are three functional similarities between the two texts [the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis] that supersede these differences in format and intention. [...] Both texts racialize their target population into a unified, coherent and recognizable pack, instinctively acting in unison, and thus sharing fundamental racial characteristics. [...] In both conspiracy theories, supernatural powers are attributed to the targeted population [...] But one of the most striking parallels between the two theories is that the conspiracy is enabled by a European fifth column. [...] one could find other similarities, such as the financial power of the enemy. There is a remarkable parallel between the unlimited resources of Jewish finance, as assumed in The Protocols, and the Arab League’s equally unlimited stock of petrodollars, as is assumed in Eurabia"
"the pressure to abolish slavery generally came from some combination of European colonial powers and economic and demographic shifts. A few Muslim clerics, such as one writing in the mid-nineteenth-century Arabian peninsula, opposed abolition on the grounds that slavery was accepted in religious texts. Similarly, one scholar argues “that slavery enjoyed a high degree of legitimacy in Ottoman society. That legitimacy derived from Islamic sanction,” among other factors. Although abolition did eventually occur, there was not a strong internally developed critique of slaveholding based on religious principles."
"In the Orient slavery has never been regarded in the same way as in the West. Oriental slavery is such as one sees in the Holy Scriptures; the slave inherits from his master, he marries his daughter. Most of the pashas have been slaves; so also were a large number of grand viziers, all the Mamelukes, Ali-Bey and Mourad-Bey. They have begun by fulfilling the menial functions within their master's house, and have risen through their merit or by favour. In the West on the other hand, the slave was always beneath the domestic; his was the lowest rank."
"The Islamic doctrine of slavery was closely linked with the doctrine of the inescapable struggle between believers and unbelievers… and Pagans were routinely sold into slavery if they had the misfortune of being captured by Muslims."
"In the heartlands of Islam, from Saudi mansions to ISIS dungeons, there are still slaves, laboring, beaten, bought, sold, raped and disposed of in Mohammed's name."
"In Hindustan British rule has abolished slavery, but it nevertheless exists in noble families, where the slaves seem willingly to assent to their condition of bondage."
"In one of the sad paradoxes of human history, it was the humanitarian reforms brought by Islam that resulted in a vast development of the slave trade inside, and still more outside, the Islamic empire."
"Polytheists and idolaters were seen primarily as sources of slaves, to be imported into the Islamic world and molded-in Islamic ways, and, since they possessed no religion of their own worth the mention, as natural recruits for Islam."
"The summer is already far advanced in this part of the world; and, for some miles round Adrianople, the whole ground is laid out in gardens, and the banks of the rivers are set with rows of fruit trees, under which all the most considerable Turks divert themselves every evening; not with walking, that is not one of their pleasures, but a set party of them choose out a green spot, where the shade is very thick, and there they spread a carpet, on which they sit drinking their coffee, and are generally attended by some slave with a fine voice, or that plays on some instrument."
"Meanwhile, the religious zeal of Christians and Moslems had helped to revive and spread a form of servitude once justified primarily by the ancient laws of war. Members of each faith looked upon the other as infidels, and hence each felt doubly entitled to make slaves of the other when taken as captives. Moors captured in North Africa and in the Spanish peninsula were held in bondage in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and France. Christian prisoners suffered the same fate in the lands of Islam. Christians and Moslems alike believed it just to hold heathens in servitude, and both found victims among the Negroes of Africa. Their operations were facilitated by the fact that slavery already existed among the Negro tribes and that native dealers were often willing participants in the trade in human flesh. The Christian purchasers liked to think of themselves as the agents of civilization and the true religion. The native traders were less philosophical about their business."
"So what was abolitionism in such contexts? Can we at all use here this loaded, essentially foreign, term in a meaningful, historical sense ? Should we bother to ? True, some historians might find it worthwhile to study lone abolitionist voices in an otherwise solid anti-abolition discourse. But then, some historians would always insist that the unrepresentative is important in and of itself, regardless of its social and political significance. Even if we examine with good intentions the scant evidence that Clarence-Smith himself provides in his book, we cannot but conclude how very few and very far between such voices indeed were. Considered within the huge dimensions of the Islamic World and the extended period of time allowed by the author for these voices to have emerged, the phenomenon appears so marginal and ephemeral that it cannot possibly deserve to be called a "sentiment", let alone constitute a Subversive current' or be described as a Movement'. Why, then, we may ask, does Clarence-Smith insist on this unpromising line of investigation and rather forced research agenda.... Also, if scholars were to undertake, in earnest and honesty, extensive studies of anti-enslavement manifestations in Islamic societies, their work would most probably reinforce the kind of negative view of ' Islam' that Clarence-Smith is so eager to revise and reconstruct."
"To overdraw its evils is a simple impossibility ..."
"19 June 1866 – We passed a woman tied by the neck to a tree and dead, the people of the country explained that she had been unable to keep up with the other slaves in a gang, and her master had determined that she should not become anyone's property if she recovered."
"26 June 1866 – ... We passed a slave woman shot or stabbed through the body and lying on the path: a group of men stood about a hundred yards off on one side, and another of the women on the other side, looking on; they said an Arab who passed early that morning had done it in anger at losing the price he had given for her, because she was unable to walk any longer."
"27 June 1866 – To-day we came upon a man dead from starvation, as he was very thin. One of our men wandered and found many slaves with slave-sticks on, abandoned by their masters from want of food; they were too weak to be able to speak or say where they had come from; some were quite young."
"The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves. ... Twenty one were unchained, as now safe; however all ran away at once; but eight with many others still in chains, died in three days after the crossing. They described their only pain in the heart, and placed the hand correctly on the spot, though many think the organ stands high up in the breast-bone."
"And if my disclosures regarding the terrible Ujijian slavery should lead to the suppression of the East Coast slave trade, I shall regard that as a greater matter by far than the discovery of all the Nile sources together."
"And so, when the sacred months are over, slay those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God wherever you may come upon them, and take them captive, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every conceivable place! Yet if they repent, and take to prayer, and render the purifying dues, let them go their way: for, behold, God is much forgiving, a dispenser of grace"
"Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful"
"But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful"
"Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate"
"And when the months wherein ye are not allowed to attack them shall be past, kill the idolaters wheresoever ye shall find them, and take them prisoners, and besiege them, and lay wait for them in every convenient place. But if they shall repent, and observe the appointed times of prayer, and pay the legal alms, dismiss them freely; for God is gracious and merciful"
"And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush: but if they shall convert, and observe prayer, and pay the obligatory alms, then let them go their way, for God is Gracious, Merciful"
"When the sacred months¹ are over kill the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. If they repent and take to prayer and render the alms levy, allow them to go their way. God is forgiving and compassionate"
"It was these hardened polytheists in Arabia, who would accept nothing other than the expulsion of the Muslims or their reversion to paganism, and who repeatedly broke their treaties, that the Muslims were ordered to treat in the same way – to fight them or expel them. Even with such an enemy Muslims were not simply ordered to pounce on them and reciprocate by breaking the treaty themselves; instead, an ultimatum was issued, giving the enemy notice, that after the four sacred months mentioned in 9:5 above, the Muslims would wage war on them. The main clause of the sentence ‘kill the polytheists’ is singled out by some Western scholars to represent the Islamic attitude to war; even some Muslims take this view and allege that this verse abrogated other verses on war. This is pure fantasy, isolating and decontextualizing a small part of a sentence. The full picture is given in 9:1–15, which gives many reasons for the order to fight such polytheists. They continuously broke their agreements and aided others against the Muslims, they started hostilities against the Muslims, barred others from becoming Muslims, expelled Muslims from the Holy Mosque and even from their own homes. At least eight times the passage mentions their misdeeds against the Muslims. Consistent with restrictions on war elsewhere in the Quran, the immediate context of this ‘Sword Verse’ exempts such polytheists as do not break their agreements and who keep the peace with the Muslims (9:7). It orders that those enemies seeking safe-conduct should be protected and delivered to the place of safety they seek (9:6). The whole of this context to v.5, with all its restrictions, is ignored by those who simply isolate one part of a sentence to build their theory of war in Islam on what is termed ‘The Sword Verse’ even when the word ‘sword’ does not occur anywhere in the Quran."
"Praise be to Allah who revealed the verse of the Sword to his servant and messenger, in order to establish truth and abolish falsehood."
"The Tafsir al-Jalalayn says that the Muslims must “kill the idolaters wherever you find them” and “seize them by capture and besiege them in citadels and fortresses until they either fight or become Muslim.”"
"If they repent of their unbelief, and establish the prayer and pay the zakat, let them go on their way and do not interfere with them."
"These Ayat [verses] allowed fighting people unless, and until, they embrace Islam and implement its rulings and obligations."
"Abu Bakr As-Siddiq [according to Islamic tradition, the first caliph of the Muslims after Muhammad’s death] used this and other honorable Ayat as proof for fighting those who refrained from paying the Zakah."
"Al shafi’i commented: Allah protected blood and restricted the taking of wealth, except for a lawful reason, by belief in Allah and in His Messenger or through a covenant given by the believers, based on the law of Allah and His Messenger, to the People of the Book. He allowed shedding the blood of Mature Men who abstain from belief and who do not possess a Covenant as Allah said: ...(9:5)"
"When Allah revealed Surah bara’ah and commanded the Prophet to end the indefinite truces, he could no longer make truces as he used to do. Rather he was obligated to Wage Jihad against everyone, as Allah says in the verse..(9:5)"
"Ibn Hazm commented: “And the statements of Allah: ‘(9.5)’. And: (9.29)... are indicative of Allah the Exalted not acknowledging and nullifying every treaty, therefore leaving the polytheists no course but to accept Islam, or be fought. While the opportunity to pay the Jizyah in a state of humiliation, is specifically for the People of the Book."