The household of war

In a post on Saturday I suggested that Londoners are living in what many Muslims call "Dar al-Harb," which translates literally as "household of war." This phrase distinguishes places still ruled by secularism and sanity from "Dar al-Islam," or "household of submission," which would mean Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, parts of Indonesia, parts of Nigeria, parts of Sudan, and a number of other regions in various states of slipping backwards into darkness. Well, the director of the Al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies in London, Hani Al-Siba'i, apparently agrees. (Thanks to Little Green Footballs for spotting this, and to MEMRI for not letting guys like Al-Siba'i get away with speaking one way to the British public and another way to Arab audiences.)


Al-Siba'i

"The term 'civilians' does not exist in Islamic religious law. Dr. Karmi is sitting here, and I am sitting here, and I'm familiar with religious law. There is no such term as 'civilians' in the modern Western sense. People are either of Dar Al-Harb or not."

The implication here is that civilians in any nation not yet absorbed into the umma are effectively combatants and therefore are fair game for homocidal Islamists.

Al-Siba'i's organization supports unrepentant Islamist terrorists. Close it down. Deport him. If he likes Dar al-Islam so much, let him live in it.