Fraværet av Sharia betyr fraværet av fred for islam og muslimer

The German-Syrian scholar Bassam Tibi, a Muslim reformist, is warning the West in his book "War and Peace in Islam" against wishful thinking in its "dialogue" with Muslims.

"The dialogue is not proceeding well because of the two-facedness of most Muslim interlocutors on the one hand and the gullibility of well-meaning Western idealists on the other."

'Muslims frequently claim, to obscure the realities of the war against non-Muslims, that "Islam means peace." The word "Islam" does indeed come from the same three-letter Arabic root (s-l-m) as the word "salaam," peace.

"Islam," however, means "submission," not peace.

"Peace" in Islam equals submission to the will of Allah through his divine and eternal law, sharia.

'The absence of sharia is the absence of peace.

'Bassam Tibi explains:

"First, both sides should acknowledge candidly that although they might use identical terms these mean different things to each of them.

The word 'peace,' for example, implies to a Muslim the extension of the Dar al-Islam – or 'House of Islam' – to the entire world," explained Tibi.

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'According to scholar Bassam Tibi,

"at its core, Islam is a religious mission to all humanity. Muslims are religiously obliged to disseminate the Islamic faith throughout the world. "We have sent you forth to all mankind" (Q. 34:28).

" If non-Muslims submit to conversion or subjugation, this call (da'wa) can be pursued peacefully.

"If they do not, Muslims are obliged to wage war against them.

"In Islam, 'peace' requires that non-Muslims submit to the call of Islam, either by converting or by accepting the status of a religious minority (dhimmi) and paying the imposed poll tax, jizya."

Again:

'According to Tibi,

"world peace, the final stage of the da'wa (call to embrace Islam), is reached only with the conversion or submission of all mankind to Islam…

"Muslims believe that expansion through war is not aggression but a fulfillment of the Qur'anic command to spread Islam as a way to peace.

"The resort to force to disseminate Islam is not war (harb), a word that is used only to describe the use of force by non-Muslims.

“Islamic wars are not hurub (the plural of harb) but rather futuhat, acts of "opening" the world to Islam and expressing Islamic jihad.

“Relations between dar al-Islam, the home of peace, and dar al-harb, the world of unbelievers, nevertheless take place in a state of war, according to the Qur'an and to the authoritative commentaries of Islamic jurists.

"Unbelievers who stand in the way, creating obstacles for the da'wa, are blamed for this state of war,

" for the da'wa can be pursued peacefully if others submit to it.

"In other words, those who resist Islam cause wars and are responsible for them.

"Only when Muslim power is weak is "temporary truce" (hudna) allowed (Islamic jurists differ on the definition of "temporary")."...

Did everyone see that bit, Bassam Tibi's summary of Muslimthink: the projection of blame onto the victims of jihad - "those who resist Islam cause wars and are responsible for them".

In reference also to:

The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives, ed. T. Nardin, pp. 129-131