Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, who gained international attention recently for denouncing Islamic terrorism, is at it again — sort of. In this MEMRI translation of a piece from London's Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, he may have revealed some of the limitations of his reformism:
"The danger of extremism threatens almost all the Arab and Islamic societies. There is no difference between the suicide attacks in Kabul, Al-Anbar, Islamabad, Riyadh, Algiers, Paris, Damascus, Tripoli, or Taba. They all embody one reality: that their perpetrators hold extremist views."
What about non-Islamic societies? What about suicide attacks in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem? New York? Washington?
Another example of Muslim hypocrisy. To deny non-Muslims protecting from violence that is perpetrated by jihadist terror because they are unbelievers once again demonstrates that we are unsafe and that there can really be no coexistence.
Of course this is nothing new. Even if one were unfamiliar with the tenets of Koran, the Sira and the ahadith, we could go to historical accounts of the interval before the Crusades, the period of the Crusades, the Muslim settlement of Iberia, the invasion of Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and so on to see that this pattern all that we could ever expect from Islam.
I was surprised to see that al-Rashed includes Paris as a city within "Arab and Islamic society",... but then again I suppose his statement is accurate. How sad.
I was surprised to see that al-Rashed includes Paris as a city within "Arab and Islamic society",... but then again I suppose his statement is accurate. How sad.
Posted by: Pelayo
Pelayo nice one! Very true.