'We should not fear being called radical' By Farish A. Noor

All the answers are in Islam.

As the scholar Ibn Taymiyyah has argued in his work Kitab Fatawa, Islam is in two parts: the Quran and the Sword. "If the Prophet carried a spear, then for us today we can carry an M-16!"

The Quran has all the guidelines, rules, norms, laws and punishments we need... The enforcement of the Shariah is the sword... Look at the sunnah (practice) of the Prophet. When he gave his speeches and surmons he had a spear (tombak) in his hand. Why? This was the symbol of power... Sadly over the centuries Islam grew weak and we forgot that the Prophet carried a spear when he spoke.

The spear was replaced with a staff...Like the Prophet we need to carry the spear again. If the Prophet carried a spear, then for us today we can carry an M-16!

"The closest we ever got to an Islamic state was the Taliban government in Afghanistan" Muslim leaders today have fallen short of the Prophet's example. They mouth empty pious phrases about how they yearn for an Islamic state, but they dont have the guts or will to do it.

There is not a single Islamic state in the world, not even in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are hypocrites and friends of the United States; their leaders are all corrupt and worldly. The closest we ever got to an Islamic state was the Taliban government in Afghanistan, but the Americans destroyed that, with their Western allies.

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