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Tanzania: Muslim cleric says “there is a thick line between Islam and terrorism”

Aug 8, 2014 1:41 pm By Robert Spencer

alhad mussa salum2The problem is that Islamic terrorists keep coloring outside the lines. The problem with these flat assertions — and there are so very many of them from Muslim spokesmen — is that they never address the Islamic texts and teachings that Islamic terrorists use to justify their actions and make recruits. And so those Islamic jihadists continue their work. “It is a misguided mentality… linking Islam and these bomb attacks or any other kind of terror activity,” says Alhad Musa Salum. But it is the Islamic jihadists themselves who are responsible for that link.

“Terror, Islam Not Linked – Cleric,” by Christopher Majaliwa, Daily News (Tanzania), July 30, 2014:

ISLAM should not be linked to the terror attacks that have been gaining momentum in Tanzania and in other areas in the world, the Dar es Salaam Region Chief Sheikh, Alhad Musa Salum, said in the city on Tuesday.

He pointed out that a Muslim found to have participated in any terror operation should be judged individually instead of connecting the act with his faith.

Speaking at the Idd el-Fitr prayers held on Tuesday at national level at the Mnazi Mmoja Grounds in Dar es Salaam, Sheikh Salum noted that Islam is a religion of peace, and preaching peace has been a top item on its agenda.

He observed that recent bomb attacks that rocked several parts of the country must be condemned in the strongest terms possible.

“There is a thick line between Islam and terrorism; they are not the same. Being a Muslim does not mean you are a terrorist, this is a thing that we must all understand,” he stressed.

Mr Salum observed that the religion has been preaching love, unity and respects to all people regardless of their religious affiliations.

“It is a misguided mentality… linking Islam and these bomb attacks or any other kind of terror activity. Doing so is not correct. We hate terrorism and we are in the forefront in opposing it, we will always do this,” he vowed.

Recently, Tanzania has witnessed a number of bomb attacks carried out in Zanzibar, Arusha and Mwanza regions, leaving a number of casualties, others even losing life later.

Some people have been linking the incidents with Islam as some attacks targeted churches while at times those who were injured were Christian clerics. Sheikh Salum noted that Islam in itself was a religion that highly advocates peace and unity while denouncing all forms of atrocities, including terrorism.

He urged Muslims in the country to live peacefully with members of other faiths, saying that unity was the only way that would make Tanzanians live in a peaceful atmosphere. He also condemned the ongoing Gaza Crisis, which has involved human rights violation committed against Palestinians.

He appealed to the international community to immediately help end all raids, incursions, blockades and collective punishment of the Palestinian population as well as to condemn Israeli settler terrorism and provide international protection to the people.

The cleric was, however, saddened by the silence of powerful countries and other human activists as they failed to condemn the incident. “Palestinians are being massacred and yet no one denouncing or even taking immediate action.

It is high time the incident is strongly condemned and eventually stopped to save the lives of innocent people,” he noted. He called on all Tanzanians to pray for the war-troubled zone so that peace is reinstated regardless of their belief.

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  1. mariam rove says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 1:47 pm

    He pointed out that a Muslim found to have participated in any terror operation should be judged individually instead of connecting the act with his faith.

    He is only kidding!!!m

  2. somehistory says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    There is a direct line between islam and terrorism…much like the lines detectives draw between criminals and crimes they commit. And the line is getting *thick*er by the minute.

  3. Karen Jourden (@KarenJourden) says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    “Mr Salum observed that the religion has been preaching love, unity and respects to all people regardless of their religious affiliations.” How does he explain the passage in the Qu’ran that says you will cut off the head and finger tips of those that don’t believe?

  4. General Pershing says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:08 pm

    Is there?

    I have not noticed!

  5. Beagle says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    He’s confusing det cord for a thick line.

  6. Gary Kuemper says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    Taqiyya is being applied when Alhad Musa Salum speaks. Look up Taqiyya.

  7. Jaladhi says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:24 pm

    How wonderful these Muslims are – they always come out with these clever lines . Yeah, the terrorism line is not separate from Islam and is so thick that it covers the entire Islam.

    Islam is terror!! He knows it, we know it except for our elite media, academia and government!!

    He can fool the self delusional Western media and government but not those who know the truth about Islam and Muslims

  8. Anon says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 2:31 pm

    “…Muslim spokesmen — … they never address the Islamic texts and teachings that Islamic terrorists use to justify their actions and make recruits.”

    Correct, AND

    They never approve of, nor take, FORCEFUL action against Islamic terrorists.

    Islam does not police itself, nor will it ever reform.

  9. dlbrand says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    “This Qur’an,” asserted the prophet of Islam, “ has been revealed to me so that I may warn you [and frighten you] by it, [people of Mekka] and anyone else it (the Qur’an) reaches [among jinn or man] .”

    (Al-Anam 6:19, Tafsir Al-Jayalayn, Jalalu’ D-Din Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al-Mahalli and Jalalu’ D-Din as- Suyuti, Aisha Bewley’s Translation , Dar Al Taqwa Ltd. London, 2007.)

    “ There is no changing the words of Allah.” (Ibid, Vs.: 34.)

    What does it mean to frighten someone? On-line freedictionary tell us, to frighten someone is to fill one with fear, it provides, frightening one is synonymous with terrorizing one.

    So what does it mean, thus, to terrorize one? Again, same source tells us, to terrorize one is to “fill [one or many] with terror; make deeply afraid….To menace or threaten; intimidate.”

    (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/terrify)

    Hence, that end—to frighten, fill with terror, make deeply afraid, to menace or threaten; intimidate—is the stated purpose of the so-called “Revelation” of the Qur’an, asserted in its core by the man who brought the book.

    Thus, for no small reason the same man, Islam provides, made this boast:

    “Allah’s torment reached them from a place where they were not expecting it, and He cast terror into their hearts so that they destroyed their own dwellings with their own hands and the hands of the believers. So then take admonition, O you with eyes (to see).” [59:2] ….

    For such reasons, as lines from the pages of Qadi Iyad’s ash-Shifa assert, their prophet boasted: “I was helped by terror being cast in the hearts of my enemies a month in advance of my arrival.” (ash-Shifa, p. 86.)

    Why a month in advance? Because word traveled as far and as fast as the strong camel ridden, and it carried with it the tales of the savage actions of the Prophet and his companions on the unbelievers.

    Thus, when townships, environs, cities, heard tell of the approaching of Muhammad and his raiders, a month before his/their arrival, terror gripped the hearts of the people. That terror forced them to flee, or prepare to die, or to submit to the Muslims as captives, or to embrace Islam—just as we witness today in Iraq and elsewhere where the Army of Muhammad marches unstopped.

    Terror is both a central tool and tenet of Islam; anyone who states otherwise is one grossly uninformed on Islam or one prevaricating.

  10. Jaladhi says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 3:11 pm

    Islam is terror. All Muslims live under terror of Mo/allah and Islam. Anybody living under Islamic state lives in terror.
    Mo/allah says he has been made victorious by terror.
    Anybody following this god is a terrorists.
    terrorism and murder are holy in Islam.

  11. wes says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 3:29 pm

    Wait a minute, here. Christopher Majaliwa of the Daily News must’ve misinterpreted Alhad Musa Salum. Notice the discrepancy between the actual quote and what Majaliwa attributes to him:

    “We hate terrorism and we are in the forefront in opposing it, we will always do this,” he vowed.
    …
    He also condemned the ongoing Gaza Crisis, which has involved human rights violation committed against Palestinians.

    He appealed to the international community to immediately help end all raids, incursions, blockades and collective punishment of the Palestinian population as well as to condemn Israeli settler terrorism and provide international protection to the people.

    Since Islam is “in the forefront of opposing terrorism” (always will), surely he was condemning Hamas, not Israel. Why can’t journalists get these things straight? Surely a prominent Muslim cleric wouldn’t contradict himself!

  12. Xero_G says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 3:35 pm

    Islam, the #1 Religion most often:
    Misunderstood, Taken out of context, Wrongly translated, Misinterpreted…as related to terrorism.

    (Please disregard jihadist terrorists accurately citing Islamic scripture for explanation and justification of their attacks)

  13. JeffS says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    Of course there is a thick line between Islam and terrorism. Bombings, rocket attacks, beheadings, crucifyings and rapes are love and peace and brotherhood. The terrorists are those dastardly Joooooz and Amerikans. Just ask the Issssssssssssslamissssssssssssssst.

  14. bobm says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 4:54 pm

    .. Why aren’t you fatwaing you ass out there fighting them then you lying sack of pigs feet…..the thick line is blood thick… rivers of it leading into your judgement eternal.

  15. Boston Tea Party says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    This pattern is blatantly obvious after a while. It all makes sense once you realize that the highest value in Islam is NOT God, or truth, or love, or life, or justice—the highest value in Islam is Islam itself, and EVERYTHING else must serve the quest for the supremacy of Islam in any way possible.

    The reason this man denounced “terrorism” is not out of any love nor sympathy for the victims of Islam–he’s just concerned that the reputation of Islam is being damaged. OF COURSE, his drawing of a “thick line” between Islam and terrorism is a speech meant only for the filthy kuffar. These Muslim spokesmen are never going to challenge their fellow Muslims who actually commit atrocities in the name of Islam. There’s no major Muslim protests anywhere in the world against ISIS, or against Hamas, or against Boko Haram, there’s no “not in our name” protests by Muslims anywhere. Oh, when it’s hatred against the Jews, or when the filthy kuffar dares to draw an offensive cartoon or burn a Quran, then there will be global protests by Muslims. But when beheadings, massacres, gang rapes and all manner of terrorism are committed by Muslims in the name of Islam? Not a peep–well, not a peep to their fellow Muslims, that is—they’ll make sure to let the filthy kuffar know that Islam is to be venerated and praised at all times, above all else.

    • Mirren10 says

      Aug 9, 2014 at 11:30 am

      Boston Tea Party says:

      ” It all makes sense once you realize that the highest value in Islam is NOT God, or truth, or love, or life, or justice—the highest value in Islam is Islam itself, and EVERYTHING else must serve the quest for the supremacy of Islam in any way possible”

      Absolutely true, BTP.

      I read what you said, and something nudged my brain as to what your description of islam reminded me of; none other than Shelob in Lord of the Rings.

      ”But still she was there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dûr; and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness”

  16. dumbledoresarmy says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 6:58 pm

    He’s gaslighting, so to speak.

    Helping keep the foolish kuffar offbalance just a bit longer, by a spot of goodcop to the ghazi raiders’ badcop.

    “You didn’t see what you just thought you saw and you didn’t hear what you thought you heard”.

    Every common or garden domestic Abuser does the same, messing with the heads of those they are victimising.

    He knows damn well that all the murderous ghazi raids – those attacks on churches and Christian priests – are straight out of the Book, the playbook of Islam, Islam, Islam.

    And he also knows, even as he squeals and demands that individual Muslims must be judged individually – there must be *no* such thing as Pattern Recognition, NO such thing as collective punishment, oh noes…that he himself and the rest of the Mob feel perfectly entitled to collectively punish the dirty Infidels all day long. As witness the screaming mobs descending on entire neighbourhoods of Christians or Hindus in Pakistan, if just *one* member of the Christian or Hindu community is accused of “insulting Islam!!”; or the raging mobs in western cities howling “Kill the Jews!” and attacking synagogues and bashing up people in the street, by way of collectively punishing the hated Yahood – all Yahood, anywhere the Muslims can get at them – in response to Israel’s attempts at self-defence against jihad.

    This Mohammedan is just waving his hands like a stage magician and mouthing empty words “love” “unity” “peace” to try to distract us from that reality of Islam – the Religion of Blood and War, of division (Dar al Islam vs Dar al Harb), the Religion of Hate – just a little longer.

    So that the Ummah, in Tanzania and everywhere else, can get just a bit stronger, and a bit stronger, till finally they can dispense with all the pretences, exactly as the mohammedans in Syria and Iraq and in northern Nigeria have dispensed with the pretences and are making no bones about their purely-Islamic aim: to force-“convert”, or to subjugate, to drive out or, above all, to KILL, KILL, KILL, KILL, KILL. And to smash and burn and WRECK everything not-Islam that they possibly can. The ecstasy of destruction; to descend into the Void and drag everything else in existence down into the Void as well.

    if I were a non-Muslim cop or military person or politician in Tanzania, I’d see about bugging this guy’s house and mosque as soon as possible, if I weren’t already doing it. In fact, I think it would be a good idea to *surprise-search* both his house and his mosque, right now.

  17. Angemon says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 8:00 pm

    “There is a thick line between Islam and terrorism

    Only if the line is connecting them:

    Bukhari 4.52.220

    “Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy)“

  18. Lynne Newington says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 8:59 pm

    Thanks to Robert Spencer for puting this up, there needs to be more articles to balance the views in relation to the separation of the roads whether it feeds the mobs or not.

  19. gravenimage says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 9:24 pm

    Tanzania: Muslim cleric says “there is a thick line between Islam and terrorism”
    …………………………………

    Is that so? And yet, unaccountably, that “thick line” is breached by violent Muslims *all the time*.

    More:

    “There is a thick line between Islam and terrorism; they are not the same. Being a Muslim does not mean you are a terrorist, this is a thing that we must all understand,” he stressed.
    …………………………………

    And why doesn’t he take that up with his fellow Muslims, who appear to so greatly misunderstand that Islam is a religion of peace?

    Instead, he does what Taqiyya-spewing Muslims *always* do, and aims his criticism at any Infidels who dare notice the glaringly obvious link.

    And he is doing this during Idd el-Fitr prayers. What does Idd el-Fitr (also known as Eid al-Fitr) celebrate? Why, the first victory by the “Prophet” Muhammed over Infidels, and the subsequent founding of the Islamic state, which systematically oppresses Kuffar, and is used as a base to launch wars of conquest.

    More:

    He also condemned the ongoing Gaza Crisis, which has involved human rights violation committed against Palestinians.
    …………………………………

    No mention, of course, of the human rights violations of Hamas’ genocidal lobbing of rockets at Israeli civilians and vows to destroy Israel. As pious Muslims see it, it’s only a “human rights violation” if Infidels—Jews especially—dare to *fight back*.

  20. eib says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 10:26 pm

    The thick line looks very thin and bloody to me.

  21. eib says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 10:28 pm

    Terror, violence, dispossession, rape, mass murder and conquest are the heart and soul of Islam.

  22. Pierre says

    Aug 9, 2014 at 7:03 am

    Another liar and apologist for Islam. It is not surprising this cult has the level of brainwashing it does considering that if you become an apostate it is punishable by death. Islam is a cult of death and anyone that tells you otherwise is a liar. Ever since Muhammad came into this world there has been nothing but trouble and death. Muslims and whatever they say are just lying in the name of their cult.

    Qur’an 9.33: “He it is Who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions.”

    The “God” of Islam is not a peaceful God, it comes out of the pagan worship that they did at the Ka’ba where Muhammad’s early life was shaped by ritual sacrifices.

    Qur’an 21:44: “Do they not see Us advancing, gradually reducing the land (in their control), curtailing its borders on all sides? It is they who will be overcome.”

    Qur’an 3:56: “As for those disbelieving infidels, I will punish them with a terrible agony in this world and the next. They have no one to help or save them.”

    Find the verse in the Quran where it says to love your fellow man. Islam is nothing but a pack of lies run by Satan.

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