Wherever Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi is located, he should expect a knock on his door, and Barack Obama, David Cameron, Philip Hammond, Yvette Cooper, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Rev. Professor David Thomas, and a host of other non-Muslims to walk in and explain to him that he is misunderstanding Islam, and that the Islamic State has nothing whatsoever to do with the genuine article.
Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi also faces a good deal of opposition on this from Muslims as well. How has it come about that Egypt’s Grand Mufti can say that the Islamic State is “far from Islam” while Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi affirms just the opposite, that “there is no such thing as ‘ISIS ideology’ – it’s Islam”? There needs to be a public discussion about this dichotomy and how it came about, and whose position is better represented among Muslim populations worldwide, as well as in light of Islamic tradition, theology and law. But that would require some honesty and balance in the public square, which doesn’t appear to be on the horizon.
“Jordanian-Palestinian Politician: There Is No ISIS Ideology – It’s Islam; Syrian Soldiers Deserved to Be Slaughtered,” MEMRI, August 31, 2014 (thanks to Michael):
Palestinian-Jordanian politician Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi recently defended ISIS, saying that its doctrine “stems from the Quran and the Sunna.” The Syrian soldiers recently killed at the Tabqa airbase “deserved to be slaughtered 100,000 times over,” said Al-Tamimi, a member of the Jordanian Umma movement. According to Internet reports, the show was not broadcast by the Jordanian ANB TV channel that had produced it, but it was posted on the Internet by ANB TV on August 31, 2014.
Interviewer: What is our position, here in Jordan, with regard to ISIS and the ISIS ideology?
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Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: I reject the use of the terms “ISIS” and “ISIS ideology.” It sounds like you are talking about a Satanic weed or a Satanic ideology, which has come from out of nowhere.
Interviewer: But isn’t that true?
Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: No, it is not. The problem with the analysts and the TV commentators who talk about the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is that what they say is completely off-track. They have accused ISIS of being an Iranian product, an American product, the product of the Syrian regime, the product of all the world’s devils…But it has become evident that ISIS is waging an all-out war against each and every one of these players. It is waging war in Iraq against Iran. Yesterday, it made incursions into Iranian territory in the province of Azerbaijan, where it took over seven towns. Now it is crushing the Nusayri Alawite regime in Syria, shattering the backbone of its military forces: the 17th Division, the 93rd Brigade, and the Tabqa military airbase. ISIS is on the march against the Nusayri Alawite regime in Syria, and against Iranian influence in Iraq. The ISIS doctrine stems from the Quran and the Sunna. The Quran and the Sunna constitute their ideology, doctrine, and conduct. If we want to tell the truth, we must cross the t’s and dot the i’s, and analyze this phenomenon…it is no longer just a phenomenon, but a fact on the ground…Today, the whole world is divided into two camps – one led by America and its satellites and the other led by the Islamic State. The war is raging between these two camps and everybody leans towards one camp or the other. This is true especially of the Muslims of the world. They support the U.S. and its collaborators and Iran and its Safavid agenda, or else they support (ISIS)…There is no such thing as “ISIS ideology” – it’s Islam.
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The (Syrian soldiers) who were slaughtered yesterday at the Tabqa airbase deserved to be slaughtered 100,000 times over. They had killed tens of thousands of Muslims. They would drop 100 barrel bombs on Aleppo every day. They killed women and children. They destroyed Syrian cities. The Taqba airbase was where the barrel bombs were manufactured. These bombs were used to kill all the Syrian people. If these Muslims are terrorists – I salute those terrorists! I salute the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria! Blessed be your hands! March on!
Jaladhi says
Oh boy, that is refreshing!! A Muslim speaks and admits the truth about Islam and ISIS instead of all the lies being spread by Muslim mufties, our Western leaders and the media and academics!
mortimer says
The dishonesty and denialism of many major scholars of Islam is shockingly INSULTING to our intelligence. They are no doubt being ORDERED and COMMANDED by governments to make such egregiously false statements about Islam…but they are wrong.
Have they heard “THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE”?
Don McKellar says
“Today, the whole world is divided into two camps – one led by America and its satellites and the other led by the Islamic State.” – Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi
This man lives in a very tiny world where China and Russia and India and South America and a whole raft of other countries who don’t fit into either “two camps” simply don’t exist! But that’s a true Muslim for you. For Muslims, there are only “people of the book” with America viewed as a Christian country, as well as its “satellites”, except for Israel which is viewed only as the “zionist entity”. The rest of the world doesn’t exist. It is invisible.
As he has proven himself a true Muslim with an Islamic world viewpoint, we should really heed what he says. He is right about ISIS.
PRCS says
“Today, the whole world is divided into two camps – one led by America and its satellites and the other led by the Islamic State.” – Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi
That crossed my mind, too.
As you said, he’s a true, small world view Muslim.
I wonder if he’s ever heard of Fiji, or Kamchatka, or Machu Picchu, or….
John C. Barile says
Speaking of Fiji, Al-Nusra and the Islamic Front have released the 45 Fijian peacekeepers they held captive, BTW.
sidney penny says
The Muslims in Fiji would have died if they were harmed or not released.
TH says
It’s not that they are not interested in the rest of the world. They figure that once they have conquered the West, the rest will fall into their hands like apples when the tree is shaken.
Cedric says
It kind of reminds me “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”
somehistory says
.” It sounds like you are talking about a Satanic weed or a Satanic ideology, which has come from out of nowhere.
Interviewer: But isn’t that true?
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It is a satanic weed, a satanic ideology that comes straight from the devil in the original form of islam all those years ago and is rearing its ugly, beastly heads in this time of the end…the end of satanic ideology.
http://islamforbids.com says
This common knowledge is what is going to throw a wrench into Obama’s plan .
mortimer says
ISIS THEOLOGY? Yes!
They are making war on modern nation-states ruled by man-made constitutions in order to replace them with PURE SHARIA LAW. They are making war to remove lines on a map created by the European superpowers and redraw the boundaries according to the wishes of the new caliphate.
Is that not Islamic? This has been done by caliphates before!
Chabuco says
An honest Muslim… too bad they’re a minority.
jewdog says
Sure, ISIS may not be cuddly, but it’s as Islamic as falafel pie and child marriage. Great to hear that ISIS is making progress in Iran; those Mullahs may soon find out that there’s something much bigger to worry about than Israel.
Anushirvan says
We always have to hear the real truth from non-taqqiyya Muslims like Anjem Choudary, Omar Bakri or this man, for instance. Or IS, Boko Haram, Al-Shabab, and the likes.
And still our politicians will peddle the same denialist drivel over and over again, simply because they can’t bear the thought of it being actually true and they can’t genuinely consider the consequences this is inevitably going to have !
For too long, ever since the Second World War came to a close, the West has been trying to build an internationalist set of standards with regards to human rights, predicated on the illusory notion that sooner or later, the whole world would be eagerly emulating this ideal. We have been made to believe this for decades. A pseudo-intellectual idiot like Francis Fukuyama for instance was the main subscriber to such a view, not all that long ago.
And yet, in 2014, this illusion is crumbling to bits as we speak ! We have been proven wrong, plain and simple !
Makes me think of Bruce S. Thornton’s piece in FrontpageMag: Western Arrogance and Decline
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/western-arrogance-and-decline/
“Yet we Westerners have a vice peculiar to ourselves–thinking the rest of the world is just like us and wants what we want because we are the destination towards which historical progress is inexorably moving. Because the rest of the world does imitate us in certain respects, desires our technologies, even enjoys our popular culture, we think that they have the same attitudes we have toward religion, or social relations, or violence, or the supremacy of ideals like peace, tolerance, cooperation, openness, equality and the like. This arrogant assumption lies behind the whole edifice of international law, and the diplomatic processes and institutions that administer it, that we think can provide global order, peace, and prosperity.”
“Blinded by our arrogant assumption that we are the vanguard of the future, we ignore those values and beliefs that contradict our own, or patronizingly explain them away as the consequence of ignorance, superstition, poverty, or the machinations of malignant elites and psychopathic dictators.”
“The whole “war on terror” has, under both parties, been compromised by the failure to understand historical Islam in its own terms, particularly its doctrine of violent jihad against the infidel.”
“Assured of our superior knowledge and morality, we presume to explain to millions of Muslims that they don’t understand their own religion.”
“Having reduced our faith to a life-style choice and comforting holiday traditions, we Westerners cannot imagine a religion whose believers take its commands seriously, and see the world as the arena of a long spiritual struggle they are destined to win.”
“Hence we are vulnerable to the ruthless and the fanatic, since in every conflict we prefer to bring a diplomat to a gunfight.
“So here we are, still living off that enormous capital amassed by our ancestors, and doing nothing to restore it. But those cultural and moral resources are dwindling by the day, and outside the West brutal rivals are watching and waiting, exploiting our arrogant delusions and manipulating our bankrupt ideals like “diplomatic engagement” in order to achieve their aims.”
Complacency is what makes Westerners totally oblivious to the reality that people will act according to the collective doctrine they adhere to. We simply won’t admit what’s going on beneath our noses ! And let’s face it: Islam is a militant totalitarian doctrine with adherents ready to fight everywhere and at any time. And all the while, we have lost the will to safeguard our achievements by force and this will turn out to be necessary at some stage ! And rather sooner than later !
How many diplomats will we be sending to a gunfight before our attitude will start changing and reality starts kicking in ?
Arthur Galvin says
well said.
Eric Johnson says
amen
Louise from Canada says
The truth has been told AGAIN and by a muslim. What more do we have to say for ALL people to understand that it is I S L A M that is responsible for ALL of these crimes committed all over the world.
Champ says
How refreshing! / sarc …Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi is not interested in playing deceitful taqiyya games, but tells it like it is: islam and IS are One in the same! …I knew it.
And then he goes *rabid* and congratulates IS for a job well done and said, “If these Muslims are terrorists – I salute those terrorists! I salute the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria! Blessed be your hands! March on!”
But are obama and kerry listening? Nah! …they’re too busy lying with their smoke ‘n mirrors campaign and spreading the ‘love of islam’ …puke!!!
C’mon you two, islam is wholly evil and so are YOU, dontcha know.
Champ says
…jeez I thought he was going to implode, hehe 🙂
Zimriel says
That *is* interesting. This is the first time I’ve seen even an assertion from a Sunni that Baghdadi is in line with their values. Mostly I’ve seen from mainstream Sunnis (like the bigwigs at al-Azhar) that Baghdadi isn’t following the Sunna.
I’ve been saying here and there myself that Baghdadi is not a Sunni – he’s a caliph and so he’s been implementing his own sunna. (Qur’an, yes; Muhammad’s maghazi absolutely, but nothing from classical fiqh.)
Would someone like to press Tamimi on what Baghdadi means by sunnat al-nabi? Where’re they getting all this stuff?
dlbrand says
“Would someone like to press Tamimi on what Baghdadi means by sunnat al-nabi? Where’re they getting all this stuff?”
Sunnat al-nabi is basic sunnah of the prophet, and that is precisely what good Muslims follow, including those in the Armed Forces of the Islamic State.
Lee Hicks says
Truer words were never spoken…
fair_dinkum says
no wonder it wasnt aired. this guys speaks the absolute truth. and his credentials are pretty good. to put it mildly.
wish hed talk more.
just to get this sort of acknowledgement is good.
dlbrand says
As the “sacred texts” assert, it was Allah himself, via, of course his messenger, Muhammad, that established the two nation—and two only—theory: one, that of the believers, the other, that of the non-believers.
The Mujihadun, irrespective of what banner they fight under, are simply the Armed Forces of Muhammad’s Ummah, the Islamic City/State/Nation that began with just a few streets of the city of Medinah, there from expanded, as Islamic History provides and asserts.
Talal says
This comes to Mind, from Quran…
5:47 So let the people of the Gospel rule according to what God revealed in it. Those who do not rule according to what God revealed are the sinners.
source http://www.clearquran.com/005.html
Prinz Eugen says
Odd, in 1941 we did not have many sane Americans running about claiming that Hitler never invaded Poland, France or Belgium, etc. And they did not continually repeat the lie that Imperial Japan had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor. We do, however, blame the Koch bros., Cheney and Jews for the 9/11 attacks — perpetrated by SAUDIS and Egyptians (moslems, one and all!). In the midst of islam’s war on the civilized world, mullah Barak Hussein is advocating on their behalf!
Where is the OPPOSITION from congress to these gross traitorous distortions?