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Hamas-linked CAIR leader says Islamic State is “using the name of the faith in vain. It’s a desecration.”

Sep 9, 2014 1:31 pm By Robert Spencer

isis-flag-youtube-afp“He said Islamic law forbids attacking civilians, executing unarmed captives and other acts. ‘They are using the name of the faith in vain. It’s a desecration.'” How did this misunderstanding come about? The caliph of the Islamic State has a PhD in Islamic Studies. Did he not learn that Islamic law forbids attacking civilians and killing unarmed captives? Or does he have a different perspective on these issues?

For there are indeed hadiths in which Muhammad forbids killing women and children, the Qur’an also allows for the laying aside of moral principles for purposes of revenge: “The prohibited month for the prohibited month, and so for all things prohibited, there is the law of equality. If then anyone transgresses the prohibition against you, transgress ye likewise against him. But fear Allah, and know that Allah is with those who restrain themselves.” (2:194)

And Allah commands Muslims to retaliate in the same way they were attacked — so the jihad propaganda about Americans (and Israelis) attacking civilians justifies attacks in kind: “If ye punish, then punish with the like of that wherewith ye were afflicted. But if ye endure patiently, verily it is better for the patient.” (16:126)

It would be refreshing if Safdar Khwaja would address these points and explain why he still thinks the Islamic State is transgressing against Islam. But if he sees this at all, he will just call me an Islamophobe. Unfortunately, that won’t stop the next U.S. Muslim from joining the Islamic State.

“American Muslims denounce Islamic State’s extreme tactics,” by Peter Smith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 9, 2014:

PITTSBURGH – The insurgent group Islamic State has exploded into headlines in recent months, sweeping through much of Northern Iraq, capturing the ancient strategic hub of Mosul, terrorizing religious minorities, crucifying opponents and posting online videos of the beheading of captive American journalists.

The attacks, evolved over years of shifting militant alliances in the region and are rooted in a severe interpretation of Islam that views the world in stark terms of good and evil, experts say.

While the U.S. considers how to respond to the group strategically, American Muslim leaders are taking pains to denounce the group and its actions as beyond the pale of not just mainstream Islam but Islam itself.

“These are absolutely terrible things, unspeakable,” said Safdar Khwaja, president of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Pittsburgh chapter.

He said Islamic law forbids attacking civilians, executing unarmed captives and other acts. “They are using the name of the faith in vain. It’s a desecration.”

He called the group’s proclamation of a caliphate spanning its holdings in Iraq and Syria – an ancient Islamic concept of a state ruled by a caliph, seen as God’s representative on earth – “a marketing ploy trying to capture the imagination of some impressionable people.”

National Islamic organizations have repeatedly denounced the terrorist tactics of the group, and local Muslims are working to warn their young people against the appeals of groups such as Islamic State to come fight alongside them.

About 3,000 Westerners are among more than 12,000 foreign fighters who have gone to Syria, many ending up in extremist groups such as Islamic State, according to a report by the Soufan Group, a security intelligence consulting group based in New York. That has led to fears of radicalized fighters returning home with terrorist ambitions.

“So we have to be on the watch,” Khwaja said. The local Muslim community is keeping tabs on its young people’s travels and would cooperate if an investigation is warranted, he said.

According to researchers, Islamic State traces its spiritual roots to a severe form of Islam that emerged in modern Arabia and that views itself as going back to the roots of the faith, discarding centuries of tradition, flexible legal precedents and devotion to saints and mystical prayer, said Islamic scholar Hasan Azad, who has a master’s degree in Islamic Societies and Cultures from the University of London.

This movement, Wahhabism, isn’t inherently violent, but its mindset, of sharply dividing like-minded Muslims from all others, is “very much how (Islamic State) is viewing the world,” said Azad, a doctoral candidate in religion at Columbia University, with a focus on Islamic studies.

The end result, “justifying bloodthirsty actions by religion,” represents a “fallen Islam,” he said. “It’s packaged as Islam, but it’s not.”…

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  1. Salah says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    “He said Islamic law forbids attacking civilians, executing unarmed captives..blah blah blah”

    Read your “holy” books, idiot.

    “Then they surrendered, and the apostle confined them in Medina in the quarter of d. al-Harith, a woman of B. al-Najjar. Then the apostle went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for them and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches. Among them was the enemy of Allah Huyayy b. Akhtab and Ka’b b. Asad their chief. There were 600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900.”

    Sira (Biography of the Prophet) by Ibn Hisham 241 السيرة النبوية لإبن هشام

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

    • Jaladhi says

      Sep 9, 2014 at 9:58 pm

      Yeah, how convenient for this CAIR idiot to forget neck chopping ceremony of 800 Jews of Medina by Mo/allah!! Was Mo following real Islam or was he desecrating the name of Islam. You wouldn’t think your perfect man would be doing it!! Muslims are liars of first order!! They will lie to end to prevent the truth about Islam to come out.

      • Abeer says

        Sep 10, 2014 at 9:25 pm

        And let’s not forget how Mohammad separated Jewish men and boys from the children to behead them by verifying if they had pubic hair! This is EXACTLY what ISIS is doing to Christian minorities in Iraq and Syria. I was disgusted by this when I was taught Islam as a Sunni Muslim and I am outraged that CAIR in 2014 truly believes that Muslims who are fed up with their lies will continue to be silent!
        We will counter all the BS CAIR is saying. Americans will no longer be ignorant about the subject and we will no longer tolerate the political correctness that’s suffocating our America.
        Simply put, CAIR….you can shove it where the sun don’t shine!

  2. KrazyKafir says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Moderate Muslim = anesthesia for dhimmis

  3. Buraq says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    This article is frantic back pedaling with a poorly oiled chain. It squeaks and rattles. Totally unconvincing. Clown!

  4. Tradewinds says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    It’s Islam that’s the desecration.

    • Jaladhi says

      Sep 9, 2014 at 9:59 pm

      Yes, Islam has and is desecrating this planet!!

  5. CornHolio says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    “So we have to be on the watch,” Khwaja said. The local Muslim community is keeping tabs on its young people’s travels and would cooperate if an investigation is warranted, he said.

    ————————-
    Cooperate IF an investigation is warranted.

    Really falling all over himself in his zeal to help prevent radicalization, ain’t he?

  6. tpellow says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    ” 10 Obvious Reasons why Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace.”

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Top-10-Reasons.htm

  7. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    It’s packaged as Islam, but it’s not.

    Far be it from anyone in the news entertainment industry (and that includes professors at Columbia) to insist on delinating where the packaging starts and the real Islam begins. But, this is the joint that employed Edward Said for years, and that guy was the ultimate taqiyya emission machine. Oft quoted, but always lying, was old Ed. And in Ivy League robes, too.

  8. AnneM says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    “Tayaqqia” at work.

  9. Rman says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 6:38 pm

    I am always impress of how Islamic defenders always uses. their QURAN’S “TAQIYYA DOCTRINE” when one of THEIR “FELLOW” ISLAMIC TERRORISTS makes some bobos. The antiques of Islam is just purely devious in ever angle.

  10. Arthur Galvin says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    Only one thing come to mind with the “CAIR” condemnation: ” islam is as islam does”. One can check this fact with Mr. Erdogan.

  11. Jaladhi says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 9:50 pm

    It’s real Islam, stupid!! You want to hide it but we know better!!

  12. Jay Boo says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 1:27 am

    WARNING !

    Do not click on RELIC’s link

    EVER

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