“Nations of the cross this message is for you. Know that your options are few: either you join Islam, or pay tribute, or face the war.”

Where did they get this idea? Why, from the Qur’an: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (9:29)

And from Muhammad, who in a hadith is depicted as saying “Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them. (Sahih Muslim 4294.)

Why does the Islamic State keep quoting the Qur’an? How can they possibly keep reading that book and missing its message of peace that is so blazingly obvious to Obama, John Kerry, Pope Francis, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the like?

“Graphic Video: Islamic State Promises ‘London Next,’” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, April 5, 2016:

Islamic State (IS) terrorists have released a threatening new video, praising the attacks in Paris and Brussels and promising London, Berlin or Rome will be next. The video, titled, “Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands” after a Quran verse (009:014) quotes another verse (191-193) calling on Muslims to, “kill [infidels] wherever you find them”.

Qur’an 9:14 (not 009:014) is indeed “Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands,” but Breitbart’s Qur’an citation is incorrect. “Kill them wherever you find them” is not “191-193,” but 2:191, as well as 4:89 and 9:5.

The film claims responsibility for the bombings that killed more than 30 people in Brussels, Belgium last month and promises more “dark days” for Europe. Adding: “Nations of the cross this message is for you. Know that your options are few: either you join Islam, or pay tribute, or face the war. “So it was Paris yesterday and today Brussels. Allah knows where it will be tomorrow. Maybe it will be in London, or Berlin, or Rome”, the narrator declares. The film shows horrific images of beheadings, the 9/11 attacks and the bombing in Paris and Brussels before computer generated images of the Eiffel Tower falling and a burning Union Flag beside the Houses of Parliament under attack. “For the sake of Allah we will march through the gates; we will march through the gates into the paradise, where our maidens [virgins] await us”, reads the text on the screen. Adding: “We are men that love death just as you love your life. We are the soldiers that fight; in the day and in the night… with the kafir in sight”….

Jihadis frequently affirm how much they love death. Boston jihad killer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote: “you are fighting men who look into the barrel of your gun and see heaven.” Austrian Muslim teenage girls who recently traveled to Syria for jihad announced: “Death is our goal.” Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said: “I’m even longing for death, you vagabond.” A Muslim child preacher taunted those he has been taught to hate most: “Oh Zionists, we love death for the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan.” Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he “loved death more than they loved life.”

Ayman al-Zawahiri’s wife advised Muslim women: “I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death.” And as one jihadist put it, “We love death. You love your life!” And another: “The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.” That was from Afghan jihadist Maulana Inyadullah.

This idea comes from the Qur’an: Say, “O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are allies of Allah, excluding the people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful.” (62:6)

The idea of loving death, and wishing for death, and celebrating mass murder as a virtuous act, is the clearest indication that these jihadis are concentrated evil.