The Mufti doesn’t elaborate, or if he does his words are not recorded in this story, but the former Deputy Imam of al-Azhar, Sheikh Mahmoud Ashour, said that “there is no religion that accepts the killing of a human soul.”
“And slay them wherever ye find them…” — Qur’an 2:191
“…and slay them wherever ye find them…” — Qur’an 4:89
“…slay the idolaters wherever ye find them…” — Qur’an 9:5
“…they shall fight in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain.” — Qur’an 9:111
“Egypt’s Grand Mufti: ISIS not part of Islam,” Al Arabiya, September 8, 2014:
Egypt’s Grand Mufti said on Monday condemned the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), saying its horrific actions fame it “far from Islam.”
Last week leading Muslim institutions denounced ISIS’s killing Steven Sotloff, the second U.S. journalist to be executed by the jihadist group.
Former Deputy Imam of al-Azhar Sheikh Mahmoud Ashour told Al Arabiya News that Sotloff’s killing was not only against humanity but “there is no religion that accepts the killing of a human soul.”
In the United States, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, published a statement on its website saying: “No words can describe the horror, disgust and sorrow felt by Muslims in America and worldwide at the unconscionable and un-Islamic violence perpetrated by the terror group ISIS. The criminal actions of ISIS are antithetical to the faith of Islam.”
“Our hearts go out to Mr. Sotloff’s loved ones and to all the loved ones of those murdered by ISIS,” CAIR added.
“In August, CAIR had condemned the killing by ISIS of journalist James Foley and had called for Sotloff’s immediate release.”
Wellington says
Blah, blah, blah.
Sorry, but Muslims trying to exonerate Islam moves me not in the least.
Islam is rotten to its core. If this isn’t a bottom line, then nothing is a bottom line.
mortimer says
Memo to Egypt’s Mufti re Shari law!
O9.8: The Objectives of Jihad
The caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (N: provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya, def: o11.4) -which is the significance of their paying it, not the money itself-while remaining in their ancestral religions) (O: and the war continues) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax (O: in accordance with the word of Allah Most High)
Caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is doing the above…so what is the problem?
Does the Mufti not know Sharia law…or is he LYING?
adams says
it is better to be a rotten rather than being a western sissy like you
Beagle says
Makes sense. IS jihadis don’t kill human souls, just the corporeal bodies. That’s 100% Islam as they say.
Champ says
The “Grand Misleader” is lying; nothing to see here but more smoke ‘n mirrors, folks …
IS and islam are One.
Arthur Galvin says
To adjust a quote from a fellow American: “Muslim man speaks with forked tongue”.
Jaladhi says
All Muslim liars are coming out in droves to defend Islam by lying(of course what else) and no Western political or religious leader is coming out to confront their lies. On the contrary they join them spouting the same lies!!! Aren’t we doomed with such leaders?? The church that started crusades to defend Christians has now joined them forgetting their legacy.
gerard says
Egypt doesn’t want to be ruled by ISIS, that’s the only reason they condemn it. They’re still reeling from MB. Their condemnation of violence is phoney and is just convenient at the moment.
fair_dinkum says
vague. is he being cryptic?
it’s barely a sentence, let alone an admonishment . even..
there. that’s how weak it is..i cant even comment.
Edward says
“there is no religion that accepts the killing of a human soul.” – Egypt’s Grand Mufti
Acute denial: mental disorder of a “person who is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.” (the Quran’s passages as written by Muhammad)
Ref: wikipedia key words – denial or denialism
“Several motivations and causes for denialism have been proposed, including religious beliefs and self-interest, or as a psychological defense mechanism against disturbing ideas”
mortimer says
“there is no religion that accepts the killing of a human soul.” – Egypt’s Grand Mufti
… except for Islam which mandates the murder of disbelievers until they submit to Islam.
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article, quoth the Grand Mufti – “there is no religion that accepts the killing of a human soul.”
Suuuure.
But: how does he define “human”?
Does he regard us infidels as *human* …or as Untermenschen? After all, the Quran describes us as “the worst of beasts”.
One must remember that under the sharia, the penalty for killing a non-Muslim is a good deal less than the penalty for killing a Muslim.
sidney penny says
Ah,Some humans are better than others.
or should I say not all humans are humans?
kangi_nunpa says
I can’t claim to have written this, and I know nothing about the person who did, except that it’s foxie1 on Disqus. (http://disqus.com/foxie1/)
Nonetheless, it made me laugh and I thought it deserved more traction. Posted on a story about Brits who joined ISIS and are now disillusioned.
“Hello Mudda, hello Fadda,
Here I am at Camp Raqqada.
Jihad’s tough but entertaining,
And they say we’ll have some fun when we stop training.
I went fighting with Abdullah;
He said he may have killed a baby.
You remember Al Bagdadhi;
He got sarin poisoning last night after prayin’
All the imans hate the mullahs,
And the latrine’s full of bits of kuffars,
And the Caliph wants no sissies,
So he reads to us from something called the “Hadith”.
Now I don’t want this should scare ya,
But my bunk mate has Ebola.
You remember Intafada,
They’re about to organize a searching party.
Take me home, oh Mudda, Fadda,
Take me home, I hate Raqqada!
Don’t leave me in this prison where
I might get chopped into a pair.”
duh_swami says
They all know the truth, but they dare not admit it, lest they slander Islam and shoot themselves in the foot doing it.
ISIS is doing nothing that Allah does not approve of.
Michael Copeland says
“Permissible Lying” (in the cause of Islam) is section r8.2 in the Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller” (a free download on the internet). We can all consult it.
pennant8 says
What’s he doing wearing a Santa Clause hat?
Crazysooner964 says
I don’t think Christmas will ever be the same for me now. Thanks for pointing that out pennant8. One does have to wonder about his interpretation of the word “human”.
sidney penny says
“In the United States, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, published a statement on its website ”
If it has nothing to do with Islam why is CAIR putting out a statement?
Will says
But what do Muslims across the world do about this?
Flock to support IS
It sort of, makes the whole Islamic thing show exactly what it is : lying bull effluent.
It’s too late now to try and remove the blood from Islam.
Only the removal of Islam will do this.