Here again, Prince Hamzah asserts that "extremism" is rejected by Islam, but his terms remain undefined — and he ends up recommending that Muslims obey Sharia, which would presumably thus include the provisions regarding violent jihad and the oppression of non-Muslims. So what looks at first glance like a statement of Muslim moderation turns out to be just the opposite. From AP, with thanks to Doc Washburn:
Jordan's Crown Prince Hamzah on Saturday urged reforms in Muslim thinking and criticized Islamic extremism, but said such fanaticism resulted from injustices and oppression being suffered by Muslims.Hamzah, a half brother of Jordan's King Abdullah II and heir to the throne, told 80 scholars from 40 countries attending a three-day conference here that the Muslim world was facing "successive pressures and challenges ... (that) extend to every corner of the (Islamic) nation's potential and its sacred shrines."
Hamzah did not elaborate on the pressures Muslims were facing, saying only that fanaticism was caused by a "deprivation, oppression and absence of justice" that "provokes hatred."
The prince said the extremist Islamic behavior resulting from such pressure is, then, "taken as evidence to convict and blame Muslims on the false assumption that these are characteristics of their morals, principles and even religion."
"But the truth is that Islam and the Muslims reject and condemn these exceptional cases as strange to their true religion and as a form of transgression," he said....
"Extremism has destroyed, throughout history, remarkable achievements in great civilizations, including our Islamic civilization," he said. "When hatred is dominant and hearts are closed, and when people do not resort to the rulings of Sharia (Islamic law) and reason, the tree of civilization withers away and societies cease to grow."
Hamzah also blamed the media for "weakening the Muslim's energy and soul," and suggested that educational reform could remedy extremism and inform the masses of Islam's true meaning.
Jordan's Crown Prince Hamzah on Saturday urged reforms in Muslim thinking and criticized Islamic extremism, but said such fanaticism resulted from injustices and oppression being suffered by Muslims.
And here is the never ending justification...."oppression and injustices suffered by muslims"?....the prince may want to look and see that Muslims in the West are being treated better than the Westeners in those countries.
Maybe the opression and injustices are coming from Muslims themselves.
But the prince knows too well that its better and more advantagious to blame the "enemy" of Islam.
Gleefully they all secretly press their cause: the formation of the international Muslim empire the Caliphate. Thus, on one hand they deny and critique, couching the criticism in terms that really uplift the concept of Jihad and the glories of shariah. i.e. They all bat for the same team.
Hamza's father killed 20 times the "Palestinians" as Israel. Maybe he should clean the beam out of his own eye before commenting on the mote in someone else's?
Oh, wait, that is a Christian concept. Never mind. This type of hypocrisy is practically a sacrament in Islam.
"resulted from injustices and oppression"...
It's ratter odd hearing Abdullah II criticizing Hussein and Khomeini et al...
Even if involuntarily.
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Prince Hamzah is a creative genius who has mastered the art of turning logic, language and reality inside-out:
"When hatred is dominant and hearts are closed,
[AS THE KORAN COMMANDS THEM TO BE]
and when people do not resort to the rulings of Sharia (Islamic law) and reason,
[SHARIA AND REASON ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE]
the tree of civilization withers away and societies cease to grow."
[AS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD]
Oppression and injustices are caused by Muslims
themselves,e.g Crown Prince Hamzah. Whilst they continue as brainwashed idiots of this Satanic Death Cult they will remain backward, poor and violent, also a menace to Civilization. Tell them to shut up whining and clean up their act. Better
still, let this Hamzah chappie get off his arse and set an example...
Ah, yes, the great "but"!
"We need to reform, BUT any excesses are the fault of the West's abuse of poor innocent Muslims."
"We need moderation, BUT we must all follow Sharia."
I'm getting mighty sick of these mealy-mouthed fellows.