Islam: Religion of Peace?
Subtitle: The Violation of Natural Rights and Western Cover-Up
Publisher: Westbow Press
Published: September 25, 2018
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781973635550
Description: Eight hundred years ago, St. Francis of Assisi embarked on a mission to the port city of Damietta, Egypt, to try and convert Sultan al-Kamil to Christianity. While this did not come to fruition, both the sultan and the saint were able to have a peaceful dialogue and establish a mutual respect that is absent from the present-day polemics of Islam.
While many today hold that those who seek to create a universal caliphate through acts of terror in the name of Islam falsely represent their religion, they ignore the original Islamic texts that inspire these perpetrators. The Islamization of our society, however, does not just come from avowed terrorists but from various Islamic scholars and activists seeking to impose sharia law. As a result of the West disavowing its Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian roots, government officials have catered to such injustices since they consider the petrodollar more valuable than the victims of violence. Consequently, they have capitulated our rights of free speech and religion to the point of classifying anyone who questions Islamists' intentions as an Islamophobe. Islam: Religion of Peace? places Islam in its historical and sociopolitical contexts in order to better understand what has bred the Islamic threat facing today's society, as well as how many of our political and church leaders have failed to address the problem, thereby creating more instability between both Muslims and non-Muslims. Author Mario Alexis Portella also proposes solutions whereby both peoples may enter into a meaningful discourse and establish harmony.
Table of contents: title: Aurthor's Note; title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: The Historical and Sociopolitical Beginnings of Islam
label: Part1:; title: The Birth of Islam and the Evolution of Its Sociopolitical Structure
label: Chapter 1.; title: Defining Islam; title: Historical Beginnings; title: The Capture of Mecca and Islamic Solidarity; title: The Early Islamic Body Politic and the New CHosen People; title: Islamic Sovereignity in Contrast to Judaism and Christianity; title: The Sunni-Shi'ite Division; title: The Shi'ites and the Imamate Goverance; title: The Alawite Shi'ites; title: The Sunnis and the Caliphate; title: Religious-Political Differences; title: Sufism; title: The Composition of the Juridical Sources
label: Chapter 2.; title: Primary Juridical Sources; title: The Quran: Its Compilation and Questioning Its Infallibility; title: The Sunni Hadith (The Sunna); title: The Shi'ite Hadith; title: The Sira; title: Jurdical Methods; title: The Igma; title: The Figh; title: The Qiyas; title: Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence and the Forging of the Sharia
label: Chapter 3.; title: The Qaddi and the Development of the Sharia; title: Interpretation or Fabrication of Law: The Prohibition of Alcohol; title: The Contribution of Sunni Jurisprudence; title: The Caliph as Religious and Political Leader; title: The Contribution of Shi'ite Political Thought; title: Present-Day Islamic Jurisprudence; title: Sunni Jurisprudence (Saudi Arabia); title: Shi'ite Jurisprudence (Iran); title: Sharia Doctrine and the Violation of Natural Rights
label: Part 2:; title: Natural Law and the Sharia and Islam's Inability to Foster Human Rights
label: Chapter 4.; title: The Natural Law: The Law of God and Natural Rights; title: The Difference between Natural Rights and Human Rights in the West; title: The Notion of Islamic Natural Law; title: The Islamic God in Contrast to the Judaic and Triune God: The Basis of Islamic Natural Law and the Sharia; title: The Sharia asRule of Law, and Islam's Inability to Foster Natural Rights; title: The Sharia and the Institution of the Family: Islam's Failure to Protect the Defenseless
label: Chapter 5.; title: The Family Structured by the Sharia; title: Sharia Marriage: The Inequalty of Women and Sexual Exploitation; title: The Depravity of Child-Marriage; title: Bacha Bazi and the Sexual Slavery of Boys; title: Slavery in Islam Today; title: The Delemma of Religious Liberty and the Doctrine of Jihad
label: Chapter 6.; title: Religious Freedom under Islamic Law; title: The Doctrine of Dawa; title: Jihadist Doctrine; title: Quranic Etymology; title: The Prohibition of Killing Innocent People: A Misconception; title: The Impetus of Holy War and Martyrdom; title: Jihad in Shi'ism; title: Dealing with Kafirs and the Institution of the Dhimmitude; title: Jihad and the Christian Crusades; title: The Islamic Body Politic in Present-Day Society
label: Part 3:; title: Present-Day Jihad and Western Involvement
label: Chapter 7.; title: Erdogan's Western-Backed Jihad; title: The Armenian Genocide: Historical Denial and the New Turkish Jihad; title: Western Sparking of Jihad and Global Interests; title: The Iranian Revolution of 1979; title: The Soviet-Afghan War; title: The Second Gulf War, the Syrian Conflict, and ISIS; title: Nigeria and the Silent Jihad; title: Qatari Involvement in Sponsoring Jihad; title: The Saudi Arabian Influence of Wahhabism and Jihad; title: Trump's War on Islamic Extremism: Failing to Address the Real Enemy; title: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Islamic World; title: Islamic Infiltration and Its Propagation
label: Chapter 8.; title: The Instruments of Immigration and Multiplication of the Progeny; title: The Insurgence of CAIR and other Islamic Groups; title: The Asset of Political Diversion and Political Correctness; title: The Mosque and Its Role in Jihadist Indoctrination; title: Islamism and the Ismalization of Society
label: Chapter 9.; title: The Appeal for Political Islam; title: Political Islam in a Democratic System; title: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Rise of Islamism; title: The OIC: Islamization and Abdication of Democratic Principles; title: Promoting a Moderate Islam: A Religion of Peace?; title: The Prophet Muhammad and the Challenge in Promoting a Moderate Islam; title: Conclusion; title: Endnotes