Can We Distinguish Between Political and Religious Islam?
2nd January 2026
To have a better understanding of the meaning of political Islam, we can turn to a scholar who has taken a scientific approach to analyzing Islam. He provides five principles that describe the nature of political Islam. He explains that 51% of the doctrinal texts are about politics:
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All of Islam is based upon the Trilogy—the Koran, the Sira (Mohammed’s biography) and the Hadith (His Traditions).
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Most of the Islamic doctrine is political, not religious.
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Islam divides the world into Muslims and Kafirs (non-Muslims)
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Political Islam always has two different ways to treat Kafirs—dualistic ethics. Kafirs can be abused in the worst ways or they can be treated like a good neighbor.
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Kafirs must submit to Islam in all politics and public life. Every aspect of Kafir civilization must submit to Political Islam.
Keep in mind that he came to these conclusions by studying the doctrinal texts, making sure that his ideas were as objective as possible.
January 2nd, 2026 at 17:35
Islam is first a system of governance and second a religion. The latter is a stretch as the rules are defined to enforce the governance system. This is why Westerners are lulled to sleep with the peaceful Muslim trope, actually tripe
January 2nd, 2026 at 20:30
Dr. Paul Warner is a national treasure, and a scholar of the first rank…
In Islam, there is no separation of “church (mosque) and state,” as exists in the U.S. and elsewhere. The mosque and state are one and the same. The line between the two – for all intents and purposes – does not exist. Sharia law, which is Islamic religious law – reigns supreme over all other forms of law and governance. Under sharia, no secular agreement or document, such as the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, may take precedence over it. This is why it is so problematic for any devout Muslim to be an American; his faith does not permit such belief. By which is meant that if sharia comes into conflict with secular law, guess what comes out on top?
Over the last half century or so in the West Islam has been cast in a new and much more flattering light than in previous years, decades and centuries. Our forbearers would not have agreed to such a whitewash of the actual nature of the faith. Indeed, many of our ancestors would not have categorized Islam as a religion at all – in the way that Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism, for example, are religions. They would have likened it to a creed or even a cult.
Islam is inherently warlike, aggressive, and expansionist in nature. For the shahid or true believer of Islam, the world divides into two – and only two – spheres: Dar al-Islam, which in Arabic means “The House of Islam (submission)” and Dar al-Harb, which means “The House of War.”
The prophet Mohammed himself commanded his followers to wage eternal jihad (holy war) against the infidels until such time as all of the world was Muslim and lay within Dar al-Islam. Mohammed also said that “jihad of the sword” was so vital to Islam that it ought to have been the “sixth pillar” of the faith, alongside fasting, daily prayer towards Mecca, alms for the poor, the profession of faith (“There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet”), and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
And if a mujahid (holy warrior) perishes while waging jihad, he is instantly elevated to paradise for all eternity. Dying in such a way – martyring one’s self – is considered the highest honor within the faith, the ultimate symbol of devotion.
Infidels, non-Muslims or “kafirs” as they are called, are considered second-class subjects within Islam, little better than slaves. They must surrender totally to Islamic rule, and have few rights. They must pay the jizya tax, and they are often killed when they outlive their usefulness to the caliph.
Islam as an entity is the greatest engine of mass death in human history, with more than two hundred fifty million dead under the scimitar over the last 1,400 years. History’s largest single genocide was also committed by Muslims in the mid-1500s in what is today India. The Mughal empire slew fifty million in less than a decade. Likewise, history’s first modern genocide – so called because it was the first to be filmed and photographed – took place when the Islamic Ottoman Empire killed more than a million Armenian and Greek Christians circa 1915-1921. Haunting images survive, even today, of young Christian virgins, girls crucified and left to die in the desert sun.
There is no “radical” or “moderate” Islam. There is only Islam, indivisible and ever-dangerous to non-Muslims.
January 3rd, 2026 at 04:47
Which I have been saying for twenty years, but nobody listens.
January 3rd, 2026 at 04:48
Islam is an oppressive totalitarian system, masquerading as a religion, with which no co-existence is possible. It represents an existential threat to every non-Muslim polity.