The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram

The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought YouISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram by Howard BloomThe title summarizes the book better than anything I have seen. Bloom tells us which countries are competing for the leadership of the world and why the militant Islamists in Iran have the advantage to win. Part history, part encyclopedic, part connect the dots, and very heavy on quotes and sources, this is a shelf reference to world affairs since Bin Laden’s declaration of war on the West. It describes hundreds of events that have caused death to hundreds of humans since Muhammad began writing and fighting in the 7th century (620s). Speaking of death, the book predicts Iran plans to cause three to four million American deaths as soon as it gets the atomic bomb as an effort to get the West’s submission to the Muslim God, Allah, and the Prophet Muhammad. If anything like that happens, Bloom predicts Tehran and Karachi will be charcoal in minutes. Then there will be pieces to put together. Bloom has written about some of this subject before in several books – The Lucifer Principle, Global Brain, and The God Problem – to name a few, but he is not just a student of Islam. He was a publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx. In 1988 he became disabled with chronic fatigue syndrome. Since then, he has published books on human evolution and group behavior. Bloom says in the book that he is a Jew and an atheist. This book has 1,903 end notes and a few foot notes in its 422 pages and 32 chapters. It is printed in 9 or 10 point type or it would be more costly and fewer copies sold. But it can be read if you keep your mind on the subject and off the horror of what Bloom describes. There is no index to help find names or events. It is still a book I would highly recommend because it is an analysis of the situation we all find ourselves in with enough information to begin to sort out the choices. I think I would be safe in guessing that the CIA, FBI and all USA intelligence organizations have people reading this book. So why should you read it? One big reason is that Muhammad could be all wrong and the world needs to be told why. Leave room to think Muhammad might not have clearly heard the angel speak to him. Maybe Muhammad gambled away his wife’s profit from a caravan trip or two and needed the money. Maybe he just wanted to steal property from others and needed an excuse. Maybe you can help with finding solutions. But if you are not involved answers may not be found. Bloom writes at page 56 that one of Muhammad’s chief biographers says Muhammad “came to know Byzantine and Christian history and heard of the Christians’ scriptures” and he never forgot them. At page 61, the new “religion” had taken shape in Muhammad’s mind by 613 A.D. or C.E. At page 140, war over other countries and kingdoms is described. In page 142 we learn that Arab Muslims enslaved 28 million blacks in Africa and killed another 84 million of them. Gut wrenching terror was used to move the conquerors’ takeover millions of acres, including much of the lands Christianity held sway, for a new kingdom. Bloom explains his concept of group IQ in a short chapter at page 153. The reproductive strategies of Democrats and Republicans in the USA is discussed at page 161 and Bloom points out Islam will use reproduction to take over Europe as the top predator. He points out how they are doing it in 2016. From page 171 to 190, the book summarizes the implementation of jihad in the USA and states: “Since Islam is a political and military structure disguised as a religion, that means we will be ruled by just one leader, a caliph, using just one law code, the shiriah.” Note what Bloom says about the jihad in America’s prisons that we financially support. From page 191 to 218, he tells the story of Asia Bibi, a young, female berry picker who offered a drink of water to other pickers. Bibi was a Christian slave, given a larger basket to fill for her masters than the baskets given to others, and after she drank from a dipper and handed the dipper to another female she was attacked for contaminating the dipper. This event started a life of religious harassment for Bibi, the deaths of judges, lawyers, and a governor. Some chapters are difficult to read because of the hate described being perpetrated by madrasa-educated Muslims. Today in Pakistan 60 percent of people are educated in madrasas and 40 percent are more educated and considered liberal or moderate. Consider today’s problem getting Pakistan to stop providing shelter for the Taliban and other fighters in Afghanistan. Today’s news is that Pakistan wants USA’s money for helping fight the Taliban and they say they cannot help more. The book helps explain why this problem exists. I refer you to the quotations from the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on “Islam” on page 219. In the world control competition we find the USA, Europe, militant Islam, India and China. Today China is building a new inter-country road with bridges and other travel features to Pakistan. Bloom writes at page 255 that Islam has the advantage in the race to the top because of 1) its strategy of one God and 2) a gift direct from Muhammad, the use of violence. Iran is using the principles of deceit and deception as Muhammad did and Bloom tells of how this is being done. Bloom comments on the North Korean, Pakistan, and Iran nuclear connections, as well as which countries have missiles on submarines and how these factors add to our worries. The Muhammad Code is contained in the Quran, the Hadith and the biographical histories of Muhammad. You have to know more about all three parts to know what we are dealing with to prevent Islam from propelling this nearly 1400 year old plan from taking over the world. Americans need to also remember that about 250 years ago the pirates (militant Muslims) were capturing our commercial ships in the Mediterranean Sea and enslaving the sailors before the Declaration of Independence. George Washington did not like the idea of having 20 percent of the federal budget devoted to paying tribute. John Adams built the American Navy but was afraid to use it. Thomas Jefferson ordered the Marines to board ships and go to Tripoli after reading the Quran and talking frankly with ambassadors from the region. Now the militants are invading the USA.ISBN: Not in book, but book is available at Amazon and other book sellers. Feral House 2016

Bloom has written an extraordinarily thorough and richly descriptive argument, with a variety of supporting themes. Readers should start with the last chapter before the first. This chapter shows his great objective: To understand the thinking of radical Islamic militants like Osama bin laden and Daesh leader al-Baghdadi. Bloom logically takes great pains to trace the historical development of this form of thinking, using the orthodox literature of leading Islamic historians and jurists, because militants like bin laden and al-Baghdadi claim these sources for their program and methods. He documents his deep, intensive research into the Hadith literature with 1930 footnotes.This book should not be considered as any form of claim regarding the general beliefs of Muslims, or any argument about Islam itself as a religion (although the casual reader may jump to such a false perspective). This book has a much different objective, which has its own humane and liberal viewpoint.For example, he bases his argument on social and biological research, attempting to explain the behavior of militant Islamists as the product of continuing psychological and social attributes of human beings, sharing many behavioral patterns with animals. He compares the biological research into the behavior of youth gangs, chickens, and rats subjected to physical stress. He concludes that these cases display a similar pattern: individuals deal with stress by abusing the weakest, or the “nerd” in the group. Leaders target the helpless as a tool for building social cohesion and promoting the confidence of the group in its competition with other groups. He argues that “Every gang has its leader, its bully, its joker, and its nerd” (82). “The same is true in the pecking order of societies, the pecking order of nations and the pecking order of civilizations” (82). He documents the four times in which Muhammad destroyed a tribe of Jews, and concludes this represents using a strategy of a scapegoat to build group cohesion. Despite this ostensibly academic content, the eminently engaging, easy-to-read tone and style of the book holds the reader’s attention and interest. Bloom uses a repeated motif of “memes” and “meme hooks” to describe the psychological power of the personal and organizational doctrines and tactics that Muhammad used to build an effective, cohesive militarily force. He summarizes the staggering military victories of Islamic armies, and argues that they constitute an important form of evidence and guidance for Islamist militants today. Bloom offers a number of well-documented and interesting case studies. For example, an excellent overview of the consequences of the massive recent Muslim migration to Europe and the attendant rise in crime, violence and mass casualty attacks. He also carefully notes the education and middle-class background of most of the militants. He contrasts the view of Islamic militants seeking “the peace of the grave” and “the peace of the prison” to the European view of peace through trade and political federation. Bloom concludes that the 1,100 year history of peace movements in Western Civilization has had an effect, citing Stephen Pinker’s The Better Angels of our Nature. In contrast, he describes the claim of Islamist militants that pursuing peace requires warfare, following the example of Muhammad. In another case, this book offers a great deal of detail on the protracted Muslim youth riots in Europe, primarily France, in September 2005. He refutes the arguments that these riots merely reflected poverty, unemployment, discrimination and racism, using quotations from Muslim websites tajdeed.net and alsaha.com bragging about their attacks as Jihad 3.0. Bloom also notes the efforts to Muslim leaders to calm down the angry teenagers. He cites the South Asia Analysis Group in its claim that the riots may have begun spontaneously, but then were “prodded along by three international extremist groups: Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which operates in 40 countries, Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan and Jamaat-ul-Fuqra, a New York and Pakistan-based Jihadist group” (176). Meanwhile the UPI reported that “the radical Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat claimed credit for the rampage” (176).In other chapters he traces the development of CAIR, its practice of deception and support for militants (many of its leaders arrested for such support.) He discusses the Nation of Islam, which leads him to document the large and sophisticated efforts to promote Salafi Jihad doctrine in the American prison system. Bloom makes some interesting claims in his discussion of Sufism: “In Baghdad Abd al-Qadir al Jilani focused on the quest for ecstatic emotions, on summoning those emotions by reciting poetry that praised Muhammad at the top of your lungs, and on practicing kindness and charity.” He also notes the heroism of Muslims who fight against violence: Munawar Anees, former advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, and founder of two of the leading journals of Islamic Studies in the Islamic World: Periodica Islamica and the International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies; and Kamal Nawash, founder of the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism in Washington DCBloom calls Ayaan Hirsi Ali a “Muslim reformer,” when in fact she is openly an atheist. He copies the list of genuine Muslim reformers that she printed in her book Heretic: (p 231).In sum, despite the danger that a causal reader might extrapolate the argument made here—regarding the way in which radical militants think—to assume some claims regarding the beliefs of Muslims in general, this book offers a great deal of valuable information on a variety of pressing social problems. The clear, fluid writing draws the reader into this colorful and engaging story. Readers should be careful to keep their eye on the forest, the big idea, that radical militants claiming the mantle of political Islam employ extremely powerful psychological and social tools, supported by a rich historical legacy. The thorough documentation from original sources and the rich case studies make this book valuable for anyone seeking greater understanding of some of the most disruptive social movements operating today.

The two books you really need to tuck into these days are both by Howard Bloom; this one and The Lucifer Principle.This latest book is really an eye opening read. What you see groups like ISIS doing today - mass executions, destroying cultural icons, creating "terror" in Europe, etc, etc, is exactly what militant islam has been doing (well documented) for the last 1400+ years, because it works!TMC is the book to educate yourself on the mindset of the average jihadi, as well as understanding that the same book (s) used to radicalize the jihadi are the same used by every other muslim in the course of everyday life. There isn't a separate set of teachings for the jihadi.This book is heavy on footnotes, easily 60 pages worth, each one pointing to more sources of information from today going back centuries.Besides Dr Sebastian Gorka, Howard Bloom needs to be on your bookshelf if you are interested in furthering your education on just what is happening in the middle-east and Europe.

WOW!-This book is a scary eyeopener of a stunning scene that is taking place now-right in front of our eyes. The American liberals and the simple do-gooding people of our country are slowly being invaded by the hateful Muslims of countries that have indoctrinated them with the "wisdom" of Muhammad. Howard Bloom(we wish that there were millions of Howard Blooms in the U.S.) has been trying to educate the masses for many years and his books and radio broadcasts are outstanding-but the Islamic cancer is spreading and it is evil. This book is so well documented and so extensively detailed that every school in the country should be building courses and seminars and discussion groups around the facts presented on his packed pages.Pay attention Americans-The Muhammad Code is a MUST READ

Fair, fact based, and informative.

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What a splendid book by a man who clearly knows his subject. This is a very well-researched book, packed with truth that has been buried, is in danger of being lost by layers of political correctness and other nastiness that haunts the West. This book drives home the powerful truth from its inception, this religion was not peaceful, going on to create a vast empire in rapid time, which we choose to forget! For me, the best chapters were on Europe, perhaps because that is my heritage. Bloom's writing style talks directly to the reader, rhetorical and repetitive at times to drive home the point where needed. Since the Paris attacks of 2015, I have researched this subject, and this is the best book so far.