Despite the efforts of President Obama and various Islamic scholars to deny that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s ISIS movement has anything to do with Islam, Baghdadi bases his army’s brutal tactics on sacred Islamic texts dating back to the time of Muhammad, as well as the Quran, that call for beheading and the burning to death of Muslims who betray Islam, such as was done to a captured Jordanian pilot.
According to a medieval Islamic scholar, a letter written by the first caliph to succeed Muhammad after the founder’s death in A.D. 632, Abu Bakr, states Muhammad “struck whoever turned his back to him until he came to Islam, willingly or grudgingly.”
Muhammad promised regarding anyone who abandoned Islam, Abu Bakr said, to “burn them with fire, slaughter them by any means, and take women and children captive.”
Meanwhile, at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, Obama called ISIS a “death cult,” not...
Dr. David P Murray | 11/12/2006
