lan astaslem is an Arabic phrase meaning "I will not surrender". The term is used in reference to Aslim Taslam

Aslim Taslam

Aslim Taslam is a phrase meaning "submit and you will get salvation", taken from the letters sent by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad to various kings and rulers in which he urged them to convert to Islam.-Letters of Muhammad:...

 (Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

: أسلم تسلم)("submit to Islam").

As resistance statement

Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career...

, the Italian author and outspoken journalist, popularized the rejoinder lan astaslem.

Michelle Malkin

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 has taken up this slogan as a response to the WTC terrorist attacks. T-shirts with lan astaslem have been produced, with all proceeds going to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund

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Submission

Aslim Taslam

Aslim Taslam

Aslim Taslam is a phrase meaning "submit and you will get salvation", taken from the letters sent by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad to various kings and rulers in which he urged them to convert to Islam.-Letters of Muhammad:...

 (Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

: أسلم تسلم)("submit to Islam") is a phrase that was taken from the letters sent by the Prophet

Prophet

In religion, a prophet, from the Greek word προφήτης profitis meaning "foreteller", is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people...

 Muhammed to the chiefs of tribes in his times in which he reportedly urged them to convert to Islam

Islam

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 to spare their lives.(see Itmam al-hujjah)

On September 17, 2006, in response to the Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy

Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy

The Regensburg lecture was delivered on 12 September 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in Germany, where he had once served as a professor of theology. It was entitled "Glaube, Vernunft und Universität — Erinnerungen und Reflexionen"...

, Imad Hamto, a Palestinian religious leader, said: “We want to use the words of the Prophet

Prophet

In religion, a prophet, from the Greek word προφήτης profitis meaning "foreteller", is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people...

 Muhammad

Muhammad

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and tell the pope: ‘Aslim Taslam'. This was interpreted as a warning.