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Raymond Ibrahim: Why Muslim Aversion for Valentine’s Day is Problematic

Feb 14, 2014 8:34 am By Raymond Ibrahim

536067_532399823457741_90678810_nAnother Valentine’s Day is here, and another Islamic fatwa condemning it has appeared.

Popular Egyptian Salafi preacher, Sheikh Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini, said yesterday that the celebration of Valentine’s Day is “forbidden according to Sharia.”

He would be one of countless Islamic clerics to condemn that day in recent times.

During his televised show, Huwaini said that “I am shocked at those [Muslims] who celebrate that day, when all of Cairo turns red,” adding that “What man whose heart is full of the love of Allah could do such a thing?”

After Huwaini quoted Muhammad, the prophet of Islam’s famous saying—“I have placed humiliation and contempt upon those who oppose me, and whoever imitates a people is of them”—the cleric asked, “So how can we Muslims celebrate the celebrations of the infidels?”

Huwaini even invoked economics to make his point, arguing that Muslims around the world waste millions of dollars making phone calls to loved ones, going out, and buying gifts—“and then we complain to Allah asking where our money went.”

Is Huwaini—the same sheikh who justified buying and selling captured “infidel” women for sex—simply being an “extremist”?

In fact, yesterday a popular Muslim website revealed that 84% do see Valentine’s Day as a forbidden “aspect of imitating the West.”

Here we come to the crux of the issue: the problem is not that many Muslims are averse to Valentine’s Day—so are many non-Muslims—but rather why they are: because Muhammad ordered Muslims not to imitate non-Muslims.

Now if Muslims meticulously follow the teachings of their prophet concerning this seemingly trivial matter, does that not indicate that they likely also follow the teachings of their prophet concerning other, problematic matters—such as deceiving, subjugating, and plundering infidels, all in the name of “jihad”?

Once again, then, we connect the dots and ask: Is it not logical to assume that those Muslims who outwardly seek to appear different from non-Muslims, simply because Muhammad told them to, must also be following his more problematic commandments, specifically, those that deal less with appearances and more with intentions?

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  1. Habib Horny says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 11:40 am

    When the whole World say “I love you” Islam say “I hate you”!!!

  2. jewdog says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    Once again, we learn from Rabbi Ray.
    That’s a great point: that those who practise one detail of islamic teaching, probably practise many others.
    It was bad enough that the Arab barbarians conquered Egypt in the seventh century, but the real tragedy is that they also conquered so many minds.

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 10:48 pm

    Amor vincit omnia (love conquers all).

  4. Graham Turner says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 5:05 am

    For me, the absence of joy and fun in Islam is one of our best hopes for seeing it collapse — certainly within the younger generations

  5. joeblough says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    … because Muhammad ordered Muslims not to imitate non-Muslims.
    It has to be said that Mohammedans are highly selective about following this edict. They have no problem using western technologies to conduct their jihad, or getting western educations for the sake of making money.

    That said, however, this is a large part of the reason why it is very unlikely that any substantive humanitarian reform will come to the Mohammedan nations in the foreseeable future. Because it would be precisely by imitating non-Muslims that the Muslims could save themselves.

  6. gravenimage says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    During his televised show, Huwaini said that “I am shocked at those [Muslims] who celebrate that day, when all of Cairo turns red,” adding that “What man whose heart is full of the love of Allah could do such a thing?”

    Is Huwaini—the same sheikh who justified buying and selling captured “infidel” women for sex—simply being an “extremist”?
    ………………………………………

    Islamic values in action: a celebration of romantic love and affection is un-Islamic, but taking sex slaves is perfectly Halal. *Ugh*

    And Raymond Ibrahim is quite correct—this is indicative of a larger rejection of Infidel values on the part of pious Muslims that bodes ill for us all wherever Islam is in ascendancy.

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