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When negotiating with your enemy, know his demands and what he will agree to even before sending an envoy.
Inha mu kif jihad, hatta il-sharia hal--il-waahid Quanoon a-ardah.
This is the stated position of our most ardent enemies: We will not stop jihad, until the sharia is the one source of law on earth.
The sending of envoys and offers has a long tradition in the Muslim way of war.
In 633 AD (12 Hijri) the Muslim General Khalid bin Al-Wahid sent envoys making the following offer to the Persians
"Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya, and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring a people who desire death as ardently as you desire life." (History of al-Tabari, Volume XI)
Osama Bin Laden used similar language in his 1996 Fatwa :
"I say to you William (Defence Secretary) that: These youths love death as you loves life."
The United States was barely a Nation when in 1785, Tripoli's ambassador to England, Abdrahaman informed John Adams that Tripoli and the U.S. were at war.
Abdrahaman further informed Adams that a treaty could be purchased and warned that, according to David McCullough, "A war between Christian and Christian was mild, prisoners were trated with humanity; but warned his Excellency, a war between Muslim and Christian would be horrible."
Abdrahman's justification for a state of war? The Koran. As Jefferson wrote :
"It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave."
For 13 centuries, the demands of Mohammedan Jihadists have been plain. They key to negotiation with the Mohammedan Jihadist is understanding that there is no negotiation for the Mohammedan Jihadist only demands to be accepted or rejected.
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