Book Reveiw May 22, 2008

From the Bookshelf

Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System
By Daniel Pipes

The slave military system is peculiar to Islam. This cruel and ingenious concept converted captured kafir boys and used them as slave jihadis to fight for Allah and Arab imperialism, even against their own people. In Slave Soldiers and Islam, Daniel Pipes traces this vile system’s origin and history and examines the methods used to produce these elite military troops of captured slaves who were capable of subduing entire civilizations.

Pipes writes that when Islam acquired slaves in war, the rulers took the smartest most athletic young boys and groomed them for sex (the Ghilman), for war and administrative duties. The cream of this crop received further instructions in military strategy, secular and religious education. Then, thousands of these elite slave troops were sent out systematically to new lands to bring the kafirs to Islam, the populace to submission. These elite slaves with their highly trained armed forces grew rich, and with wealth came power. Eventually, many of the slave generals, whose masters lived as far away as Baghdad and Kabul, became rulers over vast territories.

Slave Soldiers and Islam is a fascinating, accessible scholarly book. It covers the areas of Islamic doctrine and law, including the Islamic political and military ideals of the ummah (the community of Muslims), the caliphate (the political leader of the ummah), and jihad (warfare for domination of the kafirs). It describes in detail slavery as an Islamic institution and Muslim military history.

This book is based on a dissertation that earned Daniel Pipes a doctorate in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard in 1978, before the University was corrupted by petro-dollars and became a dhimmi of Islam.

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While Daniel Pipes gives a general overview of Islamic military slavery, Dr. K. S. Lal writes from a specific point of view of the conquest and colonization of India (Hindustan) by the Muslim slave jihadis.

Muslim Slave System in Medieval India by K.S. Lal
(Voice of Dharma is a website with e-books on the Islamic history in India free e-book. )

Dr. Kishori Saran Lal was an acclaimed historian whose specialty was Medieval Indian history. In the Muslim Slave System in Medieval India, Dr. Lal uses Islamic primary sources to weave a story that covers a thousand years of Islamic domination. The book’s Biography is extensive and includes original source texts as well foreign travelers’ accounts and modern secondary sources.

The Hindus of India have lived alongside Muslims since the 8th century when the first Arab jihadis of Islam descended on their shores. With a desire to spread their Mohammedan faith, their lust for gold and jewels, and the most prized booty, slaves, Islam invaded Hindustan. Later, elite armies of Muslim Turkish slave soldiers came to conquer and colonize the wealthy land. These Turkish slave soldiers converted by the sword and enslaved the population of a huge area including what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Under Islamic rule, millions of Hindu were taken as slaves and sent to markets throughout the Islamic world.

Dr. Lal traces the Hindu history of the Muslim Slave System and reveals a decadent, perverted society that is one of the darkest and best kept secrets of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, slavery cannot be evil. It is the will of Allah who gave Mohammed rules for slavery. Mohammed was a slaveholder and slave trader, and Muslims are told that his life is the perfect pattern for all Muslims to follow. Slavery is in the DNA of Islam.

The Hindustan Tears of Jihad, as chronicled by Dr. Lal is a brutal story of licentiousness, violence and slavery, death and genocide. This is a story the world should know.

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Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century
By Marc Sageman

There is no link to Amazon since this book is not worth buying. Author Marc Sageman’s ignorance of Islamic doctrine and history hinders him from understanding the true nature of jihad and the jihadis and renders him an incompetent war strategist.

Here’s a quote from the inside book cover:

” . . . Sageman argues that jihadism is self-limiting in terms of both structural capability and appeal. Eventually, its followers will turn away from violence as a means of expressing their discontent.”

‘Nuff said.


Bill Warner

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