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Muslim leader claims Muhammad would reject Boko Haram, doesn’t mention that he approved abduction and enslavement of women

May 16, 2014 10:50 am By Robert Spencer

QasimRashidThe only way that future abductions and enslavements can be prevented is by confronting their Islamic justification, and working for reform. So why would a putative “moderate” like Qasim Rashid want to obscure the Islamic justifications for the abduction of Infidel girls, instead of confronting them and refuting the jihadist interpretations of the Qur’an and Hadith passages they use to justify the practice? One clue may be in the fact that, although he is an Ahmadi, and thus a member of a group that mainstream Muslims violent persecute as heretical, he consistently carries water for his persecutors, whitewashing the reality of jihad violence and Sharia oppression. Rashid has lied about the Qur’an’s sanction of taqiyya, the deception of unbelievers; lied about the presence of violent passages in the Qur’an; lied about the Qur’an’s sanction of beating disobedient women; lied about the nature of Sharia; and called for limitations on the freedom of speech and expression to outlaw behavior and speech some Muslims may find offensive. So it is hardly surprising, given these revealing indications of his true sentiments, that he would publish this cynical and deceptive piece. And why is Fox so clueless as to publish it?

“What Prophet Muhammad would say to Boko Haram,” by Qasim Rashid, FoxNews.com, May 8, 2014:

I found myself awake at 3 am, reading the names of my Nigerian daughters—hundreds of them. Some shared the same name as my wife, Ayesha. Others shared the names of co-workers and friends, cousins and acquaintances.

I call them my daughters because as a parent I don’t know how else to think of them—girls whose only crime was education.

As the international community finally expresses outrage and multinational efforts ensue to #BringBackOurGirls, I’m forced to remind everyone that I condemn this act not only as a father and a human being, but also as a Muslim.

Boko Haram’s claim that Islam motivates their kidnappings is no different than Adolf Hitler’s claim that Christianity motivated his genocide. This terrorist organization acts in direct violation of every Islamic teaching regarding women.

Rashid is trying by this sly and cynical rhetorical strategem to suggest that Islamic terrorism is Islamic in just the same way was the Holocaust is Christian, but you’ll notice that he doesn’t quote Hitler claiming that Christianity motivated his genocide. He didn’t do so for a good reason: no such quote exists. Hitler did say this, however: “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?” And: “If Charles Martel had not prevailed in Poitiers…we would have better received Mohammedanism, those doctrines of the reward of heroism: combatants alone have the seventh heaven! With that the Germans would have conquered the world. It is only by Christianity that we have been held distant.”

Boko Haram violates the Koran 24:34 which commands, “and force not your women to unchaste life,” i.e. a condemnation of Boko Haram’s intention to sell these girls into prostitution. They violate Koran 4:20 which declares, “it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will; nor should you detain them,” i.e. a specific repudiation of Boko Haram’s kidnapping and detention.

Here again we see an Islamic apologist ignore the verses that Muslims like Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau point to in order to justify kidnapping young girls and selling them into sexual slavery — even to offer a mitigating explanation of them:

“If you fear that you will not act justly towards the orphans, marry such women as seem good to you, two, three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own; so it is likelier you will not be partial.” (Qur’an 4:3)

And:

“And also prohibited to you are all married women except those your right hands possess.” (Qur’an 4:24)

See also 33:50-52 and 70:29-30. In light of these verses, Rashid’s next claim is flatly false:

The Koran could not be clearer that no person has the right to force any woman for any reason. I delve deeper into this topic in my upcoming book, Extremist.

This claim is obviously false because those women whom “your right hands possess” are slave girls, and slave girls by definition are forced to do whatever they are told, and their own will counts for nothing. Maulana Maududi, an internationally respected Qur’an scholar, explains that “this expression denotes ‘slave girls,’ i.e. female captives of war who are distributed by the state among individuals when no exchange of prisoners of war takes place.” The twentieth-century Qur’an commentator Maulana Bulandshahri explains the wisdom of this practice, and longs for the good old days:

During Jihad (religion war), many men and women become war captives. The Amirul Mu’minin [leader of the believers, or caliph — an office now vacant] has the choice of distributing them amongst the Mujahidin [warriors of jihad], in which event they will become the property of these Mujahidin. This enslavement is the penalty for disbelief (kufr).

He goes on to explain that this is not ancient history:

None of the injunctions pertaining to slavery have been abrogated in the Shari’ah. The reason that the Muslims of today do not have slaves is because they do not engage in Jihad (religion war). Their wars are fought by the instruction of the disbelievers (kuffar) and are halted by the same felons. The Muslim [sic] have been shackled by such treaties of the disbelievers (kuffar) whereby they cannot enslave anyone in the event of a war. Muslims have been denied a great boon whereby every home could have had a slave. May Allah grant the Muslims the ability to escape the tentacles of the enemy, remain steadfast upon the Din (religion) and engage in Jihad (religion war) according to the injunctions of Shari’ah. Amen!

Ignoring all this, Rashid then turns to Muhammad:

Prophet Muhammad’s dying words embodied these commandments. He implored, “Do treat your women well and be kind to them, for they are your partners and committed helpers.” While he came to an Arab society entrenched in patriarchy and misogyny Muhammad instead taught, “It is the duty of every Muslim male and every Muslim female to attain education.”

Rashid then goes on to expatiate on how Islamic tradition values education, even for women. That’s fine. He glides by, however, the fact that Muhammad is depicted as saying in the hadith he quotes that every “Muslim female” should “attain education.” What about non-Muslim females? Rashid doesn’t quote this hadith, which — unlike his about female education — is in Sahih Bukhari, the hadith collection that Muslims consider most reliable:

“Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: That during the battle with Bani Al-Mustaliq they (Muslims) captured some females and intended to have sexual relation with them without impregnating them. So they asked the Prophet about coitus interruptus. The Prophet said, ‘It is better that you should not do it, for Allah has written whom He is going to create till the Day of Resurrection.’ Qaza’a said, ‘I heard Abu Sa’id saying that the Prophet said, “No soul is ordained to be created but Allah will create it.”‘” (Bukhari 9. 93.506) Note that Muhammad doesn’t say, “You shouldn’t be taking female captives, much less having sex with them.” He takes that for granted as acceptable. The only open question is whether they should practice coitus interruptus when they rape these women, and Muhammad says that it is better that they don’t, because if the women get pregnant, it is Allah’s will.

Rashid doesn’t quote that because it would explode his entire case, and show that Boko Haram is on perfectly firm Islamic ground when it captures and enslaves schoolgirls. Until Muslims confront and reject or reform such passages, they will continue to inspire such behavior, Rashid’s smooth deceptions notwithstanding.

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  1. mariam rove says

    May 16, 2014 at 11:22 am

    you mean stealth jihadist muslim leader…. m

  2. VLParker says

    May 16, 2014 at 11:50 am

    In order to reform islam you would have to say that allah and mohammad were wrong. Impossible. Don’t see it happening.

  3. Jaladhi says

    May 16, 2014 at 11:50 am

    Muslims are pathological liars!! And this guy is only defending Mo’s moon religion by lying – taqiyya!!

  4. David Schell says

    May 16, 2014 at 11:59 am

    My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter.

    In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross.

    You are mistaken about Hitler, I fear.

    • ecosse1314 says

      May 16, 2014 at 1:12 pm

      Fraid it is you that is mistaken. Hitler would suit his conversation to suit the company. The fact that there are 20 times more anti Christian rhetoric from Hitler than otherwise proves the polnt. Also the fact that Hitler never attended a Christian service for the last 45 years of his life(barring political based services) just reinforces the point.

    • gravenimage says

      May 17, 2014 at 10:51 pm

      David Schell wrote:

      You are mistaken about Hitler, I fear.
      ……………………….

      You are the one who is mistaken. Hitler held that it was Germans’ acceptance of Christianity that had held them back from world conquest. He said, “Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”.

      Doesn’t sound like a devout Christian to me. By the way, Hitler admired Islam as a brutal martial creed, and believed it was only the “racial inferiority” of Arabs that had held them back from world conquest under Islam.

  5. Steffen Larsen says

    May 16, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    There’s a nice little twist often given to verses such as Q 35:28: “”Those truly fear Allah, among His Servants who have knowledge: for Allah is Exalt in Might, Oft-Forgiving.”

    By this is clearly meant knowledge of Allah and his claims and demands. But to make it look good and apologetic the word “knowledge” is easily transformed into “education”, and it becomes an entirely different thing.

  6. Salah says

    May 16, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    “What Prophet Muhammad would say to Boko Haram,”

    He would say: “Where is my 20%?” Qur’an 8:41

    • gravenimage says

      May 17, 2014 at 11:05 pm

      Hah! Excellent point, Salah!

  7. RodSerling says

    May 16, 2014 at 12:59 pm

    This Qasim Rashid is a vicious and particularly aggressive and obnoxious liar.

    He writes:

    “Boko Haram violates the Koran 24:34 which commands, “and force not your women to unchaste life,” i.e. a condemnation of Boko Haram’s intention to sell these girls into prostitution. They violate Koran 4:20 which declares, “it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will; nor should you detain them,” i.e. a specific repudiation of Boko Haram’s kidnapping and detention.”

    Hilarious. Several of these apologist clowns are circulating and parroting from each other a misquote of Qur’an 4:20. They are not even bothering to check their own materials anymore, so confident they have become that no one, especially not the editors of the publications for which they write, will even bother to check. Verse 4:20 actually deals with exchanging wives:

    “And if ye wish to exchange one wife for another and ye have given unto one of them a sum of money (however great), take nothing from it. Would ye take it by the way of calumny and open wrong?”

    That’s 4:20, which is completely unrelated to the facts at issue in the Boko Haram case.

    The verse these apologist parrots are trying to quote is 4:19, which refers to legal rules of inheritance, as in inheriting property from someone who has died, including wives. It has nothing to do with this case involving Boko Haram, jihad and taking captives, or buying a selling slaves.
    http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=4&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2
    http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo=86&tSoraNo=4&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2
    http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=2&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=4&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2
    http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=696&Itemid=59

    Qasim Rashid is either lying, or he is Qur’anically illiterate. There is no other reasonable possibility.

    As for verse 24:33 (which Rashid mistakenly cites as 24:34), again, this prohibits Muslim men from forcibly pimping their own female sex slaves to other unauthorized males and collecting money from it. It does not prohibit Muslim men from owning female sex slaves, nor from buying and selling them, nor from seizing them forcibly and raping them in jihad. Taking the non-Muslim females captive in jihad is standard in Islam. The verse does not prohibit Muslim men from owning shares in a female slave. Multiple Qur’anic verses permit Muslim men to have sex with their female “right hand possessions,” i.e., slaves and captives or females regarded as such (i.e., females of the harbis) 23:1-6, 70:29-30, 4:3, 4:24, 30:50-52.

  8. Richard Sherman says

    May 16, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    Boko Haran is precisely emulating the sociopath Muhammad, who after personally decapitating 900 unarmed Jewish men…then kidnapped approximately 1000 Jewish girls and women…Boko Haram is following the example of “the perfect man” Muhammad.

  9. Richard Sherman says

    May 16, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    Boko Haran is precisely emulating the sociopath Muhammad, who after personally decapitating 900 unarmed Jewish men…then kidnapped approximately 1000 Jewish girls and women…Boko Haram is following the example of “the perfect man” Muhammad.

    • Champ says

      May 16, 2014 at 7:53 pm

      Boko Haram is following the example of “the perfect man” Muhammad.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Yeah, the perfect criminal, eh? 😉

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 17, 2014 at 9:11 am

    Safiyyah of Khaybar says that this b*st*rd is a liar.

    So does Rayhana of the Banu Qurayza.

  11. gravenimage says

    May 17, 2014 at 10:39 pm

    Muslim leader claims Muhammad would reject Boko Haram, doesn’t mention that he approved abduction and enslavement of women
    …………………………

    And of course, the “Prophet” didn’t just approve of abduction, rape, and enslavement of Infidels, he *practiced it himself*—and he is considered the “ideal man” and model for Muslims for all time.

    Qasim Rashid is an Ahmadi, and shills for Islam even though all orthodox Muslims want to see him dead. He also practices Taqiyya to snow the credulous Kuffar over at the Huffington Post.

    Qasim Rashid:

    “I found myself awake at 3 am, reading the names of my Nigerian daughters—hundreds of them. Some shared the same name as my wife, Ayesha…”

    Well, this is *just sickening*. What Rashid won’t tell you is that his wife and some of these girls are named for little Ayesha, whom the “Prophet” “married” at six and raped when she was just nine.

    He also won’t tell you that the leader of Boko Haram has taken the name “Abubakar Shekau”, in honor of the “companion” of Muhammed who sold his little girl Ayesha to the pedophile “Prophet”.

    And Rashid is doing something very sly here—by referring to the name “Ayesha”, he is implying that most of the victims are *Muslim girls*.

    But this is not true. While there were some Muslim girls who abducted, most of them were released when they were determined to be Muslim. The girls still in captivity now were all Christian at their abduction—though some of them have been terrorized into converting to Islam while being held.

    More:

    Boko Haram violates the Koran 24:34 which commands, “and force not your women to unchaste life,” i.e. a condemnation of Boko Haram’s intention to sell these girls into prostitution.
    …………………………

    More crap. These girls are not technically being “sold into prostitution”—they are being raped as booty and then sold into either sex slavery or “marriage” to Boko Haram Jihadists. This may well be a distinction without a difference for any civilized person, but for pious Muslims this difference makes it all Halal.

    Just check the comments on his site to see how many ignorant Infidels—including credulous Christians—are swallowing his Taqiyya. *Ugh*.

    http://qasimrashid.com/

  12. gravenimage says

    May 17, 2014 at 11:15 pm

    Here’s more disgusting Taqiyya from Qasim Rashid:

    http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2012/09/11/tolerance-vs-sept-11-terrorism-a-victory-of-pluralism-over-prejudice/11180

    The best thing about this meretricious piece is the first comment, from one s stokes, which reads:

    “Two words: STEALTH JIHAD”

  13. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 18, 2014 at 8:12 am

    A poster at this forum, some time ago, whose name I cannot at the moment recall, once defined Islam as “Thuggery + Image Management”.

    Boko Haram has committed the thuggery – brazen and brutal, and boasted about it all over the internets; now, in those parts of the world where Muslims suddenly feel a little insecure because their nasty agenda has been made public and *some* of the Infidels seem to getting suspicious, lots of Muslims (like this bloke) and Islamophiles (like the fool Carla Power over at Time mag) are frantically piling on with the Image Management.

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