Under Fourth Caliphate: Islam Turns Inward with Civil War (Part 3)
BY DAVID AGEMA
Ali was the fourth caliph where disturbance (fitnah) and civil war began among the Muslims themselves. They couldn’t agree on who should be the caliph, so they fought each other.
What is interesting about this period is that Aisha, Mohammad’s child bride, wanted Ali killed because Ali told Muhammad to stone her when she was accused of adultery. It was this intense anger in 656 that led her to form an army and fight against Ali. She lost but was kept alive in the hopes of uniting Muslims. It did not work. Ali was assassinated in 661 and the new Caliphate, Muawiya, was rejected by the Muslims in Iraq, who supported Ali’s son, Hasan ibn Ali as caliph. However, Muawiya offered Hasan five million dirhams to back off. Thus, Hasan was bought off. So much for true religion.
Muawiya was the first caliph who was not a companion of Mohammad, which angered many Muslims to the point of anarchy.
In 670 Muawiya attacked Constantinople. This was significant because Mohammad said the first follower to invade Caesars city (Constantinople) would be forgiven for his sins. So here, Muslims believed Mohammad had the power to forgive sins (simulating Christ). They lost that battle because of their opponent’s weaponry—“Greek Fire,” a flame-throwing device. The jihadis were defeated. As a result, Muawiya turned his anger towards his internal enemies and poisoned them in 670, establishing a precedent used many, many times.
Jihad was continued beyond Persia into Afghanistan by Muawiya, and he made the caliphate into a family dynasty, thereby solidifying his progeny to leadership positions within Islam. This went over like a led balloon and caused the second fitnah (disturbance) in which Muslims fought and killed Muslims, just as they do today. This division was the beginning of the Shia vs the Sunni conflict. The Shias followed Imams, and the Sunnis followed caliphs, which did and has resulted in much persecution of the Sunnis to this day.
The Islamic wars continued but met a great defeat in North Africa in 698. The Byzantines allied with the Christian king Kusaila. They ambushed the Muslims and drove them out of Algeria and modern-day Tunisia. The loses suffered by the jihad warriors were so great that they withdrew from Crete and Rhodes as well. However, in 700 the Muslims returned to North Africa and won it back. Churches could no longer bear crosses and had to post signs on their doors reading, “Muhammad is the great apostle of God, and Jesus is the apostle of God” (but he was not the son of God).
All this went on while Muslim infighting continued.
This rings true to the Biblical prophecy that Ishmael (father of the Muslims) would be like “a wild donkey of a man and his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him” (Genesis 16:12). God’s covenant was with Isaac, not Ishmael, who was Isaac’s half brother by an Egyptian handmaid. Even Ishmael’s son killed Isaac’s Jewish descendants (Jeremiah 41:3). Ishmael’s son used deceit to slay Jews and to take their treasures (Jeremiah 41). And so, it ensues even today—killing and deceit for the purpose of booty and power.
At this time, jihad continued into Spain, India, and another war against Constantinople—the topic of the next part in this series.
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Source:
Spencer, Robert. The History of Jihad: From Mohammad to ISIS. Post Hill Press, 2018.
David Agema, a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and the past president of Top Gun Republican political action committee, is a U.S. politician from the state of Michigan. David represented District 74 as a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives (from 2007 to 2013) and served as a member of the Republican National Committee from 2012 to 2016. He earned a rating of 100% by the Conservative Union and was also a Senior Captain at American Airlines.
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