Islam Is Not Just a Religion: It Is a Political War Ideology That Must Be Defeated

By Bobby Darvish

As an Iranian American ex-Muslim and Christian, I speak from both personal experience and historical observation when I say that Islam is not simply a "religion" in the Western understanding of the word. It is a totalizing political ideology with its own legal system (Sharia), military ambitions (jihad), and global strategy (ummah expansion). Unlike Christianity, which is a kingdom of heaven focused on the transformation of the soul through grace, Islam is a kingdom of earth, an empire in religious disguise.

Islam Is a Political Ideology

Islam governs every aspect of a person’s life: spiritual, legal, economic, military, and political. From its inception under Muhammad, Islam spread not through peaceful preaching, but through military conquest, taxation of non-Muslims (jizya), and subjugation. The Quran commands war against unbelievers until they submit to Islamic rule (Quran 9:29). The hadiths are replete with calls for violence, conquest, and the suppression of dissent. This is not a spiritual path; it is a war doctrine.

Unlike Christianity, which explicitly separates God’s kingdom from Caesar’s (Matthew 22:21), Islam merges mosque and state. In countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, apostasy from Islam is punishable by death, women are treated as second-class citizens, and blasphemy laws silence all criticism. Islam has blasphemy courts, morality police, and international fatwas to enforce its ideology beyond its borders.

Islam's Global Strategy: Submission or Conquest

Islam does not seek coexistence. Its mission is global domination, either through conversion, subversion, or violence. The doctrine of taqiyya (lying for the sake of Islam) allows Muslim missionaries to mislead Westerners into believing Islam is peaceful. In truth, its scriptural and historical core is expansionist.

Look at Europe today: no-go zones in France, Sharia patrols in the UK, and Islamic riots across the continent. Islam enters democracies not to assimilate but to replace. It uses religious freedom as a Trojan horse until it is strong enough to silence its critics through intimidation, legal warfare (lawfare), and eventually, the sword.

The Lessons of History: Spain and Greece

Spain and Greece were once conquered by Islamic empires, the Moors and the Ottomans. It took centuries of resistance, war, and ultimately reconquista to drive out the Islamic occupation. Spain expelled the Moors through war and the Inquisition. Greece fought brutal battles for independence against the Ottoman caliphate.

These nations are now free to practice Christianity, preserve their cultures, and defend their borders because they recognized Islam not as a faith among others but as a foreign occupying force. Without resistance, they would still be dhimmi (second-class citizens under Islamic rule), forbidden to speak freely, own weapons, or criticize the caliph.

Defeating Islam Requires Total Commitment

To defeat Islam as a political force, we must recognize it for what it is: a hostile imperial ideology masquerading as religion. Tolerating it as "just another faith" is suicidal for free societies. There are only three historical and effective responses:

1. Conversion to Christianity – Only Jesus Christ can transform the heart and break the chains of Sharia. True Christians do not seek empire or conquest, but the freedom of the soul and dignity of the individual.

2. War – Like Spain, like Greece, like the Crusaders who tried to push back the tide of jihad, sometimes force is necessary when peace is rejected.

3. Inquisition – Not in the sense of cruelty, but of legal and cultural enforcement. Root out subversive ideologies and foreign funding of mosques that preach hatred. Ban Sharia law. Deport radicals. Protect apostates.

The Path Forward

The West, especially Christian nations, must awaken to the fact that Islam is not just another religion, it is a political insurgency. The survival of freedom depends on the willingness to name the enemy. Just like Nazism and Communism were political-religious cults bent on global conquest, Islam must be resisted with faith, firmness, and fearlessness.

We must return to our Christian roots, evangelize boldly, enforce our laws without fear of being called “Islamophobic,” and defend the West as a Christian civilization. Our ancestors fought and bled to be free of Islamic tyranny. Let us not surrender it again out of cowardice and confusion.

Written by Bobby Darvish
Iranian American Ex-Muslim, Christian Conservative
Founder, Darvish Intelligence
Free Iran. Defund Tyranny. Expose the Enemy Within.

Citations:

1. Quran 9:29 – “Fight those who do not believe in Allah... until they pay the jizya.”

2. Sahih Bukhari 52:220 – “I have been made victorious through terror.”

3. Matthew 22:21 – “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s.”

4. Robert Spencer, The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, Bombardier Books, 2018.

5. Raymond Ibrahim, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, Da Capo Press, 2018.

6. Bat Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996.

7. Ibn Warraq, Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out, Prometheus Books, 2003.