Boroujerdi
Takfir is the practice of one Muslim individual or group declaring another Muslim individual or group to be non-Muslim, and hence to be killed as a heretic or apostate. Al Qaeda and other jihad groups are sometimes referred to by other Muslims as takfiri groups because they claim to represent authentic Islam, and pronounce takfir against other Muslims who oppose them. Boroujerdi, being a Shi’ite, thinks that the Sunni jihad groups opposing Iran’s client Assad in Syria are misunderstanding Islam — not in the sense that mainstream (deceiving or deceived) Western analysts would assume, for their thinking that jihad involves warfare against those they consider unbelievers, but because they’re Sunni and are fighting against Shi’ites.
That part of Boroujerdi’s analysis is understandable; the part about aiding the enemies of Islam, which Safavi makes explicit as Israel, is standard Islamic supremacist anti-Semitic conspiracy paranoia.
“Iranian MP: Takfiri Groups Pursuing Israel’s Interests in Region,” from Fars News Agency, January 19:
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker warned that Takfiri terrorists are killing Muslims for the sake of enemies’ interests in the region, particularly the Zionist regime of Israel.
“Takfiri groups are used as a tool by enemies of Islam and they seem to lack a true understanding of Islam,” Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said in a meeting with Syrian Grand Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun in Tehran on Saturday.
He highlighted the role of clerics in reinforcing the resistance of the Syrian nation as well as fostering unity in the Arab country, and warned against plots by enemies to incite religious and sectarian rifts among Muslims.
Boroujerdi also praised the resistance of the Syrian people against the foreign-sponsored crisis in the country.
Earlier this month, Senior military aide to the Iranian Supreme Leader Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi warned that Takfiri terrorists are killing Muslims for the sake of Israel’s interests in the region.
“Takfiri groups are advancing Israel’s interests in the Middle-East through violence and terrorism,” Major General Rahim Safavi said.
“Through the massacre of innocent people in countries like Syria, Iraq and Bahrain, Takfiri groups are pushing the situation in the region in favor of the Zionist regime (of Israel),” he said.
thomas_h says
”The BNP, Nazis, Muslims and Communists all sing the same song—-different name.””
”THEY ALL WANT TO END DEMOCRACY AND INSTITUTE A ONE PARTY STATE.”
BNP “wants to end democracy and institute a one party state?”
1. Where did you get that from?
2. What party would that be?
3. why do you scream?
”Tell me that a fundamental objective of the BNP is NOT the deportation of all NON WHITE immigrants.”
As I understand it from talking to a few BNP members and reading their information material they are expressing the concern and alarm of the quiet majority of indigenous Brits that their country, in a matter of a generation or two, will cease to exist as a home of the British people due to a mass immigration from the third world, which indeed incidentally, is mostly non white. But so what?
Mass immigration is very seldom, if ever, beneficial for a country especially when these immigrants are of very different, even irreconcilable with, often hostile to, the native, culture, habits, religion, loyalties and completely different demographic dynamic. Continuing ignoring these differences and suppressing voices of concern and protests is bound to bring about major conflict that will tear the society apart and may end in a catastrophe of civil war. A people, a nation must be free to choose whom it will allow to enter and settle in its midst – not less than a private person must be allowed to choose to whom it will extend the hospitality of his house. It is only natural that if he at all opens his door to a stranger it would be for someone with whom he feels most affinity. For a Brit (or French, Dane, German or Italian) letting in a moslem Somali, Nigerian, Pakistani or Arab for indefinite time would be a very stupid and dangerous thing to do. For Britain ( or France, Denmark, Germany, Italy) letting in an inassimilable and mostly hostile to the local culture element – is not just stupid, but suicidal. Moreover, if we understand that a nation is democracy of the dead, the living and the unborn, it is betrayal of the current, past and future generations.
And BNP doesn’t at all speak of deportation of “all NON WHITE immigrants”. They speak of deportation of criminal, illegal, hostile and inassimilable immigrants – regardless of colour. If majority of them happens to be non white – then…well…tough luck.
BNP like a typical popular movement at its initial stage may have its bad apples. Also, it takes time for a movement to clean its ranks and be on guard for provocateurs. BNP doesn’t strike me as terribly sophisticated, but the sentiments they are expressing are not sophisticated either. Love of one’s country, people, history and culture, like love of, and for, one’s mother and child, is not sophisticated at all. Does it make it less noble?
Bettina says
Yep, Mortimer — and that’s why Israel and Arabia are linking arms in a cyber effort to finalize and launch a super-duper virus on suspecting but dumb Iranians to attack their electronic infrastructure. Nice! Who could’ve have guessed…
Bettina says
Thank you, Charli, for the light you shed on this group. Looks like whenever we find the word “National” this or that, we’d better think twice before gracing them with our egalitarian, democratic attention!!
gravenimage says
Iranian MP: Sunni jihad groups are misunderstanders of Islam and serve Israel’s interests
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This is *very* common. If a Muslim can’t accuse his enemies of being Joooos, the next best thing is to accuse then of being tools of the joooooos.
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Takfir is the practice of one Muslim individual or group declaring another Muslim individual or group to be non-Muslim, and hence to be killed as a heretic or apostate.
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Yes—this is very important. It not only marks the enemy as “non-Muslim”, but also—as noted—makes him him fair game to murder, just as though he were an Infidel.
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Boroujerdi, being a Shi’ite, thinks that the Sunni jihad groups opposing Iran’s client Assad in Syria are misunderstanding Islam — not in the sense that mainstream (deceiving or deceived) Western analysts would assume, for their thinking that jihad involves warfare against those they consider unbelievers, but because they’re Sunni and are fighting against Shi’ites.
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It is well worth noting that one of the reasons Sunni Jihadists have given for fighting against Assad is that he is—supposedly—weak on Israel, and though a Jihadist, not intent enough on destroying Israel.
In other words, Sunnis and Shi’ites have declared *each other* Takfir over being ‘soft on Israel’.
A comedy of errors—just one with a notably high body count…*Ugh*.