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Leading Saudi Muslim cleric prays that female activist lose her hand and eyesight for saying that Muhammad’s arch-enemy had a beard longer than the prophet’s

Jan 23, 2014 4:09 pm By Robert Spencer

Suad-Al-Shammari

Adel Al Kalbani has served as imam of the al Haram mosque in Mecca, the mosque that surrounds the Kaaba. So he is not some fringe character. His prayers to curse her are yet another indication of the culture of violence inculcated by a religion that sanctions wife-beating (Qur’an 4:34), the killing of Infidels (Qur’an 9:5) and their subjugation (Qur’an 9:29), and so much more in the same vein. But to investigate this culture of violence, and its possible role in world conflicts, is dismissed out of hand as “Islamophobic.” And so the violence continues.

“Tweet sparks new controversy over religious issue,” by Habib Toumi for Gulf News, January 20:

Manama: A Saudi activist said that she would sue a religious scholar after he called for putting her on trial over a tweet in which he claimed she had insulted Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). Suad Al Shimmari said that Shaikh Adel Al Kalbani wronged her by claiming that she had ridiculed the Prophet by denigrating the significance of beards that men are expected to grow as required by some religious schools.

“I call for a swift trial of Suad Al Shimmari for her offences to the Prophet [PBUH] and her scorns in the tweet she posted,” Al Kalbani said, quoted by local news site Sabq. In her tweet, Al Shimmari said “one of the dumbest statements is that breeding beards is to be different from the heathens. These include past and present Orientalists, Jews, priests, Communists and Marxists beards. Abu Jahl [an arch-enemy of the Prophet and the flag-bearer of disbelief and hatred towards Islam] had a beard longer than that of the Prophet.”

Reacting to the tweet, Al Kalbani prayed that Suad lose the use of her hand and her eyesight. The activist however rejected the charges and said they were part of a campaign to discredit her.

“Those who reacted negatively to my tweet had isolated it from the other tweets raising the same theme. They maliciously clipped them to target me and to make me look as if I was scorning the Prophet,” she said in remarks published by Sabq.

“I wanted to stress in my tweets that when we criticise bearded men, we do not mean to ridicule God’s teachings, verses and Messenger. In my tweet, I wanted to show that other religions also included breeding beards that are in fact longer than those that some Muslims have. This includes rabbis and clergymen,” she said. Buddhists in India are different from Muslims through, among other features, their beards, she added.

“The length of a beard does not define the degree of religious devotion or the piety of the person. Those who say they want to emulate the example of Prophet Mohammad [PBUH] should adopt his morals as well,” she said.

“I am shocked by all the insults and derogatory remarks. I wish Al Kalbani had really appreciated the significance of my tweets before rushing into cursing me,” she said. His negative attitudes have fuelled public antagonism against her, she added.

“Al Kalbani did what he did because he wanted to gain some popular mileage and to reconcile with his group. I am now considering a law case against him for what he said against me. Islam teaches us not to rush into statements and conclusions until we are sure and certain about all the facts in order to be fair. I am responsible for what I say, but I am not responsible for what they understand or how they perceive things. I am not at all responsible about them if they want to put pressure on society or seek a deal with the state or target me because of my positions towards the Muslim Brotherhood,” she said….

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  1. Larry S says

    Jan 23, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    Suad presumably even yet adheres to the hate-filled excuse for a religion in which she has been immersed for much, if not all, of her life. She reminds me of the communists of yore who, under Stalin, faced their executions staunchly maintaining their faith in communism.

  2. Softly Bob says

    Jan 23, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    Only the childish religion of Islam could get so hot and bothered about how long somebody’s beard was. What a pathetic and disgusting ideology this is. Only a complete idiot would ever believe in Islam!

  3. PRCS says

    Jan 23, 2014 at 5:09 pm

    My sister has a longer beard than your made up phrophet, cry baby.

    Take that!

  4. No Fear says

    Jan 23, 2014 at 5:30 pm

    Exactly the sort of behaviour I would expect from the “Religion of the Perpetually Burning Infidel”.

  5. Salah says

    Jan 23, 2014 at 5:44 pm

    Everywhere he went, Muhammad the Prophet of Islam needed women to pick the lice from his hair. I must admit, I don’t know about lice in his beard, but…!!!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/09/muhammad-s-lice.html

  6. PJG says

    Jan 23, 2014 at 5:57 pm

    “Those who say they want to emulate the example of Prophet Mohammad [PBUH] should adopt his morals as well,” she said.”

    What is she asking for? She’s asking for what she got. Anger, vindictiveness, childishness, a call for her mutilation. That’s the Prophet’s ‘morals”. So what is she complaining about, the pious twit?

    • LemonLime says

      Jan 24, 2014 at 1:21 am

      Good point, PJG. I was going to note essentially the same thing: She is enabling and supporting the same monster — Muhammad — whose adoration is causing the same disease that is now attacking her.

      Co-dependent Stockholm Syndrome: that is the norm among Muslims who end up being victimized by the Islam they co-dependently enable. In fact, I don’t see any Muslims who don’t do that — including all the so-called “moderate Muslims” (or their late permutation, the MINOs — “Muslims in name only”).

    • Aly G says

      Jan 25, 2014 at 4:12 am

      If she said it as it is, she would be beheaded the next day.

  7. Dr.Bushra Qader says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 9:27 am

    Suad Al Shammari is specifically one of the prominent servants of the radical muslim king of Saudi Arabia who intents to create a theater and characters playing a game as if there is freedom and activists for women rights under his oppressive islamic government, on the other hand he lets the clerics to attack them as they miss understand islam then the activists I mean the game characters at the end of the day they will explain how does islam holds morals and protects the women rights .This game is very dangerous and it is a global islamic campaign of all terrorists governments, parties and organizations.
    My jihad campaign of the terror linked CAIR is one of those dangerous games which combines strongly the same source .

  8. mortimer says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 10:15 am

    Islam: A culture of VIOLENCE, MISOGYNY and XENOPHOBIA by divine command.

  9. Dr.Bushra Qader says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 10:22 am

    In Saudi Arabia as well as all other islamic states there is no rights for someone who criticize islam or muhammad or even any islamic figure to sue a religious scholar or to defend himself before the law and that what islam says: ”should be sentenced to death for apostasy”.

  10. mortimer says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 10:26 am

    The postmodern ‘whatever’ culture assumes studying anything is superfluous when ‘assuming something is true’ is spontaneous. A postmodern is ‘not even obscurantist’, ‘not even wrong’, because no facts or evidence or fallacies of logic are ever required to support a postmodern assumption…unlike Islam, I might add. Islam needs pseudofacts, pseudoevidence and dozens of circular arguments to reach its absurd, unfounded conclusions.

    And yes, Salah, TRUE, RESPECTFUL Muslims need to have LICE in their beards and the hair on their heads so they can imitate Mohammed ALL THE WAY!

  11. Marbran says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 11:22 am

    These people are insane, but I had to jump on this gem from Al Shimmari:

    “I am responsible for what I say, but I am not responsible for what they understand or how they perceive things.”

    Now, can someone please go and tell this to Obama, Hillary, the NYT, CAIR, MSA, etc.?

  12. exsgtbrown says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    it’s the truth and Muslims can’t stand the truth…

  13. cornholio says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    Moral of the story – never denigrate the length of any part of the Prophet PBUH (Prophet’s Beard Utterly Humongous ) .

  14. gravenimage says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    Leading Saudi Muslim cleric prays that female activist lose her hand and eyesight for saying that Muhammad’s arch-enemy had a beard longer than the prophet’s
    …………………………………..

    Just goes to show you can’t spoof Islam. Doesn’t this sound like something Ahmed the Dead Terrorist would say?

    Of course, the other reason this stuff is so hard to spoof is because it is so ugly. Look at the *very specific* grisly ills this pious Imam wants for this woman—he’s obviously given it some thought—in fact, it appears to be the *only* thing he has given any thought.

    More:

    Adel Al Kalbani has served as imam of the al Haram mosque in Mecca, the mosque that surrounds the Kaaba. So he is not some fringe character.
    …………………………………..

    Nope—this pettiness and viciousness are mainstream Islam. *Ugh*.

    More:

    His prayers to curse her are yet another indication of the culture of violence inculcated by a religion that sanctions wife-beating (Qur’an 4:34), the killing of Infidels (Qur’an 9:5) and their subjugation (Qur’an 9:29), and so much more in the same vein. But to investigate this culture of violence, and its possible role in world conflicts, is dismissed out of hand as “Islamophobic.” And so the violence continues.
    …………………………………..

    True—although in this one instance it’s quite possible that his “prayers” for a man who had said the same thing would be just as psychotic.

    More:

    “Tweet sparks new controversy over religious issue”
    …………………………………..

    “Religious issue”—the length of someone’s beard. This just shows what “spirituality” is is Islam…

    More:

    “Those who reacted negatively to my tweet had isolated it from the other tweets raising the same theme. They maliciously clipped them to target me and to make me look as if I was scorning the Prophet,” she said in remarks published by Sabq.
    …………………………………..

    She can’t win here—he’s an Imam! But she’ll try—no Muslim can every admit that Islam is the problem.

    More:

    “The length of a beard does not define the degree of religious devotion or the piety of the person. Those who say they want to emulate the example of Prophet Mohammad [PBUH] should adopt his morals as well,” she said.
    …………………………………..

    Unfortunately, that’s *exactly* what this devout Imam is doing. The “Prophet” cursed his critics and even had them assassinated.

    More:

    Islam teaches us not to rush into statements and conclusions until we are sure and certain about all the facts in order to be fair.
    …………………………………..

    As if—Islam teaches you to take offense and curse your enemies—as well as call for violence against them. I think the not-so-good Imam understands islam better than this female activist does, I’m afraid…

  15. HERKEY ANDERSON says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 10:15 pm

    SAVAGES ONE AND ALL!!!!!!

  16. Roddy P Carbonell says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    During the Spanish Inquisition, a woman was burned at the stake because she laughed in church. It seems Muslims are five centuries behind.

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