The Religion of Peace, Etc., Etc., Ad Nauseam

 
This, from The American Thinker

	What is the purpose or goal of jihad? A complicated policy like jihad can have multiple goals or purposes, but this one comes late in Muhammad’s life in Medina and best summarizes the goal and purposes. He wants to make Islam prevail over every religion.
	The following translation is approved and funded by the Saudi Royal family; the parenthetical explanations are inserted by the translators: 9:33 It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth, to make it superior over all religions, though the Mushrikûn (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) hate (it). (Hilali and Khan, The Noble Qur’an, Riyadh: Darussalam, 1996, 2002; parenthetical notes are theirs)
	This verse is repeated two more times, word for word, in Suras 61:9 and 48:28. Muhammad means business.
	Seekers and the curious about Islam must understand this brute fact as they read the Quran: in the ten years that Muhammad lived in Medina (AD 622-632), he either sent out or went out on seventy-four small assassination hit squads, raids, expeditions, small battles, or full-scale wars like the Tabuk Crusade in AD 630, in which Muhammad led 30,000 soldiers north to invade the Byzantine empire. Sometimes the conflicts did not end in violence, but too many times they did. All verses (and there are not many) in the Medinan suras that seem to speak of peace and tolerance must be read in light of this violent historical context. Not far from the few tolerant verses the reader will find intolerant and violent verses.
	Sura 9:33, simply put, predicts the conquest of Islam over all religions. Islam must dominate the world through jihad.

And that, my fellow Americans — “Islam must dominate the world” — is what makes this World War IV.