Of course his words were taken out of context. When has a non-Muslim opponent of jihad terror ever quoted an Islamic supremacist’s words in their proper context? Greasy Islamophobes seem to be physically incapable of quoting the Qur’an or the words of any jihadist imam in context. It takes a mind of particular refinement to be able to understand correctly the glorious complexity of these utterances. “Vienna imam tried over teen jihadists,” The Local, September 17, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The imam of a Vienna mosque told the District Criminal Court on Tuesday he had nothing to do with the disappearance of two young girls who left Austria in April to fight in Syria’s civil war.
“I have never seen the girls,” said the imam, who goes by the name Ebu Tejma.
The tabloid daily – Österreich – claimed the 15 and 16 year-old girls of Bosnian origin were “driven” to the so-called holy war in Syria by the imam, who preaches a particularly radical form of Salafism at the Altun-Alem mosque in Vienna’s second district.
The 32 year-old preacher has gone so far as to file a legal complaint against the media for misrepresentation.
“There are no facilities for women in our mosque. There is no place for women,” he told Judge Gerald Wagner.
The newspaper has “totally ruined my reputation. I have never spoken to the girls. My name has been dragged through the mud.”
However, the defendant’s legal representative, Peter Zöchbauer, wants to examine the evidence, suggesting it is also possible that he came in contact with minors outside the mosque.
Zöchbauer named a witness he claims can confirm the imam had “confronted (the girls) with religious content.”
The hearing has been adjourned until early October.
Before setting the date, the judge played Youtube clips in which the imam was shown preaching.
Along with praise of Osama bin Laden, he also mentioned “duty” to a “defensive war”.
The imam described the sequences as being taken out of context.
“If I said so, I was not right in the head. I do not recommend even adult men to go into battle.”
ralph says
How can anyone ever believe a lying Muslim? even THE black Muslim president OF THE USA stills Lies…
Neil Jennison says
To be fair to Obama, he isn’t exactly the only President to lie is he? Clinton wasn’t known for telling the truth, or Nixon for that matter.
ringgo1 says
Covering for The Mighty O are we? It is true that others have been less than honest, but none other a muslim, intent on destroying the US.
voegelinian says
After nearly a quarter-century of a mélange of mendacity, misfeasance, and Mohammedanish megalomania (Clinton, Bush & Obama, respectively), Nixon is looking rather good right about now…
Neil Jennison says
Ringgo1 and Vogey,
Indeed so. One wonders whether Reagan would have been so pathetic? I doubt it somehow,
No, I am not covering for Obama, he is far and away the worst President the US has had in my lifetime. And he is up against some pretty stiff completion.
I was just saying lying isn’t unknown in politicians.
Neil Jennison says
Sorry, that should read “competition”.
Paul says
“Muslim president OF THE USA”??
Why do you believe that President Barry is a Muslim? What evidence do you have to support your allegation?
mach37 says
Wearing a wedding ring with Arabic/Muslim calligraphic symbolism, going to grade school in Muslim school in Indonesia, having a Muslim father … his statements in “Audacity of Hope.” Circumstantial evidence, but evidence.
Paul says
“Arabic/Muslim calligraphic symbolism”? What exactly is that? Even Arab Christians might have on their jewelry what appears to be “Muslim…symbolism”, for they, too, use the Arabic word for God.
Attending an Islamic school in his youth is no evidence whatsoever, for several reasons. First, that was decades ago. Second, Obama was sent there by his mother and stepfather.
Now, Obama’s father was an atheist, so you must be referring to Lolo Soetoro, Barack’s stepfather. Soetoro died in 1987, which was almost 30 years ago. This, too, hardly counts as “circumstantial evidence”.
I think a better case could be made for the claim that you and Ralph are just paranoid. Probably spending too much time at TheBlaze, too.
Semeru says
#1 The ring is a Majapahit design, which is quite common for Indonesian hand made wire (Gold Silver) jewelery. The religions of the Majaphit was Hinduism, Buddhism, Kejawen and Animism.
#2 Obamas ring seems to be a casted copy of a hand made museum piece. Here is
#3 Script on rings are not written vertically ( top to bottom) but horizontally (left to right) or in this case being left to right. To view the swiggely lines that are alleged to be arabic the ring must be held vertically.
http://goo.gl/bDdS26
The down-side of this mythe about Obamas ring gives the counter jihad opponents Iand leftists to call you conspiracy theorists and loons. Let’s stick to the facts.
Another down-side is, you are obliterating the truth about the Hindu/Buddhist origins of the ring
Here are a few images of the same era showing similar rings which can be found inThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://goo.gl/lF8jE9
The ring in the next image is rather amazing as it shows like many other rings in this style are made of only one piece of wire
http://goo.gl/0K05Lc
Other Images
http://goo.gl/v2glsP
http://goo.gl/DvJjbR
Not only does Obama wear a ring of Hindu origin, but when he went to school in Indonesia he attended the Indonesian-language Santo Fransiskus Asisi (St. Francis of Assisi) Catholic School around the corner from their house for 1st, 2nd, and part of 3rd grade. The he completed his 3rd grade an 4th grade at the Indonesian-language government-run Besuki School, one and half miles east in the exclusive Menteng administrative village.
Paul says
Semeru,
You may be wasting your time on ralph and mach37. They are the type of person who finds evidence of Allah in a tomato.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Allah+in+a+tomato&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=allah+in+a+tomato&sc=0-12&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=5388ba3ce76242c1870d56e444cdc901
It’s by the way that Indonesia’s Muslims may have set theirselves up for a renaissance of Gotama’s teachings. Probably you know about Pancasila “the official philosophical foundation of the Indonesian state”, as it reads at Wikipedia. Of course, the foundation is utterly polluted with superstition (#1), collectivist thought (#2 through #4), populism (#4), and leftist rabble rousing (#5) with which Fascists, too, are familiar for reasons having much to do with the fact that Fascism is a creature of the left. Still, the term, Pancasila, is plainly not of Islamic origin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancasila_(politics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Precepts
Beagle says
The only way to avoid context-based dissimulation is to play entire videos, which the judge apparently did. And yet, the imam uses it anyway.
Then they trot out the old you have to read it in the original Arabic or that it’s part of their religion and therefore above criticism under freedom of religion: “confronted (the girls) with religious content.” Islam being peaceful, how could “religious content” cause them to wage jihad in Syria? Those harmless lies aren’t harmless.
When that fails, lawfare: “My name has been dragged through the mud.”
And finally, as here, “If I said so, I was not right in the head.”
Never let it be said Muslims are not geniuses when it comes to gaming our system.
Beagle says
Also, I love the seamless transition from “never seen” to “met outside the mosque”. Oh, those girls? I thought you meant some other girls I never met.
ninetyninepct says
“My name has been dragged through the mud.”
The dragging was likely intended to help clean off the pig dung, but some seems to have been missed. Are there some specks in the beard?
DP111 says
The “out of context” excuse has been ongoing for at least 13 years. Before that, it was only the original Arabic version was authoritative. In addition, only properly trained Islamic scholars could pronounce what was meant by the Arabic koran. Islamophobia and “This is not Islam”, are more recent excuses.
Mirren10 says
“If I said so, I was not right in the head. ”
Oh, that’s really rich ! ”I was not right in the head”. Of course he wasn’t, and isn’t – he’s a mohammedan !
mach37 says
“If I said so, I was not right in the head. ”
So he is basically admitting to saying that, but pleas the insanity defense.
valhalla says
In reply to Paul –How can President Obama-not- be a muslim ? he has said so himself-his grandmother and brother are muslim his father was muslim and as you know the children in islam are always the religion of the father and -once a muslim -always a muslim-he did attend a muslim school in Indonesia-there are many quotes that support his islamic back ground and thinking such as -“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of islam “I made clear that America is not -and never will be at war with islam ” etc.any reference to terorrism and islam is down graded -we all have our opinion-we will have to agree to disagree.
Michael Copeland says
“When I look in the mirror I realise I am no longer the strapping young socialist muslim I used to be.”
Obama, after dinner speech, White House.
Paul says
When and where, exactly, did he say so himself? Further, what source are you relying upon? Surely you have something better than a blog set up by Joe Sixpack or an article at TheBlaze.
“his grandmother and brother are muslim”: So what? Most members of my family are Christians. Further, one aunt was a nun, my mother’s younger brother was a priest, and her elder brother was a lawyer involved with of Serra. Yet I rejected Christianity years ago.
“his father was muslim”: His father was a Marxist and an atheist, as Marxists tend to be. See also my remarks above to mach37.
“once a muslim-always a muslim”: One weakness of this dogmatic generalization is that a single counter example is enough to falsify it. (Yes, I do know of one. She was from Iran. Search the Internet and you’ll finds sites set up by other former Muslims.)
“he did attend a muslim school in Indonesia”: So what? Lots of Muslims attend one of the popes’ schools. Does that make them Christian? Well, no.
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of islam”: So what? Any PC dhimmwit could say the same thing while pandering to an audience of Muslims.
“I made clear that America is not -and never will be at war with islam.” So what? Obama is a politician, and politicians are skillful pragmatists. For example, LBJ and Congress used terms like police action to describe their little war in Vietnam.
“any reference to terorrism and islam is down graded”: So what? Imagine that a clique of paranoid, nonmuslim leftists comes to power. They continue to spit “Islamophobe” at every critic of Islam who suggests that Islam is a totalitarian cult unworthy of tolerance. It’s part of their religion to do so, and now that they’re in power, they’re parsing and twisting their words even more to avoid associating Islam with aggression, violence, thievery, etc.
“we all have our opinion”: Irrelevant.
“we will have to agree to disagree.”: A sophomoric, self-serving cliché to provide yourself with a license for pig headedness.
Suffice it to say that you’ve not made your case. Perhaps you should spend less time at JihadWatch and more time studying logic.
phillippe says
his beard looks very fake.
Oliver says
The girls, it says, were (are?) Bosnians. Aren’t people from Bosnia allmsot all Muslims?
If so, (not defending this (in my opinion, from what I have read rabble rouser,), couldn’t the girls “just decide to go to Syria (or Iraq or wherever) because it is their ” duty” as good Muslims?
Just asking.