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Tunisia: Imam gets six months prison for using mosque loudspeakers to tell his followers to murder police officers

Jan 30, 2014 11:30 am By Robert Spencer

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To call the police officers taghout is a serious charge: the word means “rebels,” “evil powers,” even “idolaters.”

“Have you not seen those who were given a portion of the Scripture, who believe in superstition and false objects of worship [taghout] and say about the disbelievers, ‘These are better guided than the believers as to the way’?” (Qur’an 4:51)

“Have you not seen those who claim to have believed in what was revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and what was revealed before you? They wish to refer legislation to Taghut [tyrants], while they were commanded to reject it; and Satan wishes to lead them far astray.” (Qur’an 4:60)

How did this imam come to misunderstand so severely the Qur’an’s message of peace?

“Six months prison for an imam for incitement to murder in El Kef,” a translation of this French news article, “6 mois de prison à un imam pour incitation au meurtre au Kef,” from BusinessNews.com.tn, January 28 (thanks to Halal Pork Shop):

An imam in the city of El Kef was sentenced to six months in prison, beginning immediately, for inciting hatred and murder against the police. This imam was sentenced following a complaint by the police unions.

This imam has made a habit of encouraging the killing of law enforcement officials, calling them “Taghout.” The police have filed a complaint and the city attorney came to El Kef to see for himself, what this imam was saying, because he was using the speakers of the mosque to disseminate his claims.

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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jan 30, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    This photo of the minaret with loudspeakers bolted onto it broadcasts a message that spans most of the history of Moslems. In the olden days, the minaret was used as a military defense tower, long typical on the walls of forts, but for the Moslems instead on the walls a house of worship.

    But in the age modern media, the minaret sends out sound waves instead of big rocks, arrows, or burning oil. Minarets nowadays don’t hold weapons and fighters, yet they are more powerful than before.

    • mariam rove says

      Jan 30, 2014 at 12:54 pm

      Yes. Far more powerful. Last year when I went to Iran it was exactly like that. The minute noon time came the call for Azan was being broadcast all over Tehran. M

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 31, 2014 at 12:25 am

      Alarmed Pig Farmer wrote:

      Minarets nowadays don’t hold weapons…
      ……………………..

      Actually, APF, contemporary Mosques *are* quite often used as weapons magazines. Aggressive Muslims have no problem multi-tasking, and offering both homicidal “Kutbahs” *and* explosives and Kalashnikov storage at the local Masjid…

  2. Jay Boo says

    Jan 30, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    All along the watchtower
    Islamic mosque prisons built on the filth of Muhammad

  3. gravenimage says

    Jan 31, 2014 at 12:20 am

    Tunisia: Imam gets six months prison for using mosque loudspeakers to tell his followers to murder police officers
    …………………………

    How common *is this*? Imams regularly tell their devout followers to murder the “insufficiently Islamic”.

    Of course, if Shari’ah become the law of the land in Tunisia, will this sort of thing still be considered illegal?

    More:

    To call the police officers taghout is a serious charge: the word means “rebels,” “evil powers,” even “idolaters.”
    …………………………

    This is also very common—anyone considered “insufficiently Islamic” is, through the handy doctrine of Takfir, denounced as an ipso-facto apostate.

  4. fair_dinkum says

    Jan 31, 2014 at 5:30 am

    what isnt common is the arrest and jailing of such imams.
    in most moslem countries he’d have gotten away with it. nothing compared to what afghan or pakistani or bangladeshi imams carry on with. and Iraqs id dare say.

    and as mentioned above, this sort of dialogue is common.

    but i remember somewhere way down in the depths that tunisia is trying to re secularise. maybe we’ll see more of this..

  5. pdxnag says

    Jan 31, 2014 at 4:41 pm

    How is this different than a competitive moralist in the West yelling “Islamophobe/Blasphemer” to the world about a targeted individual or group? The incitement is to sever someone’s head from their body, under sharia law.

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