Spencer: Islam is not a religion of peace,
but in the age of absurdity, you can't say that.
One of the other absurd things that we are all commanded
to believe is that Islam is a religion of peace.
And of course, Linda Sarsour, not me, the other one,
would be the first to tell you
that Islam is a religion of peace.
And you probably know, if you have ever gotten into
any conversations with any leftists on your campuses,
that if you say, if you suggest,
that Islam is not a religion of peace,
then you are a racist, bigoted, genocidally-minded,
hate-mongering Islamophobe.
Yes.
Now the thing is, I'm here to tell you, I, Linda Sarsour,
I'm here to tell you, Islam is not a religion of peace.
Now I happen to have the Quran with me,
and I'm sure you have yours with you,
so open your Qurans.
[audience laughter]
You didn't bring it?
How woke are you, anyway?
[audience Laughter]
Anyway, if you open your Qurans,
those of you who did bring them, chapter nine, verse five,
"when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters,
wherever you find them."
Chapter four, verse 89.
Good thing you're not an idolater, right, no problem.
Chapter four, verse 89.
They wish that you would disbelieve
just as they disbelieved so that you may be all alike.
"Do not, therefore, take allies from them
until they emigrate in the way of a law."
That is, if they leave one country and go to another
to conquer and Islamize it,
you may have heard of things like that happening,
"but if they turn their backs,
then seize them and kill them wherever you find them."
There it is again.
Chapter two, verse 191,
"kill them wherever you find them."
Are you getting a pattern here?
Chapter nine, verse five does not say
kill them wherever you find them, but it does say
"fight against those who do not believe in Allah,
nor in the last day,
and do not forbid what he has forbidden,
even if they are of the people of the book,"
which is Jews and Christians, primarily,
until they pay the Jizyah, which is a tax,
"with willing submission and feel themselves subdued."
In other words, fight against the Jews and the Christians
until they submit, deny the basic rights
under the rule of Islamic law.
Chapter eight, verse 39, "fight them until religion
is all for Allah," which means if there are
other people of other religions,
then you've got to keep fighting.
So I would submit to you on the basis of this,
and there's much, much more that I could quote,
and will, if you'd like to challenge in the question period,
I can give you much more evidence.
Islam is not a religion of peace,
but in the age of absurdity, you can't say that.
And yet we are facing an increasingly virulent
global conflict on the basis of the fact that the people
who read this book and believe it and think
that it is the perfect book that was dropped from paradise
by the only God, they think that
this is what they have to do.
Now, this does not mean that every single Muslim
is going to do this any more than every Christian
loves his enemies and turns the other cheek,
but what's in the book is in the book.
And those who do commit violence in the name of Islam
have abundant textual support for what they are doing.
They are able to point to passages of the Quran
and quotations from Muhammad and statements from Islamic
scholars and clerics to say Islam commands warfare
and Muslims must wage war against unbelievers
and subjugate them under the rule of Islamic law.