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Raymond Ibrahim: Loyalty and Enmity — Parallels between Islam and the Mafia

Oct 23, 2014 10:18 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Don Corleone[Via FrontPage Magazine]

Editor’s note: The following is Part Two of a three-part series examining the many parallels between Islam and the mafia following Bill Maher’s recent exclamation that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”  Click here for Part One.

Death to Traitors (AKA “Apostates”)

Once a Mafioso takes the oath of loyalty to the mafia—including the Omertà code of silence and secrecy—trying to leave the “family” is instantaneously seen as a betrayal and therefore punishable by death.  Any family member, great or small, is given authority to kill the traitor, the “turncoat.”

Compare this to Islam.  To be born to a Muslim father immediately makes the newborn a Muslim—there are no oaths to be taken, much less an option in the matter.   And, according to Islamic law, if born Muslims at any point in their lives choose to leave Islam, they are deemed “apostates”—traitors—and punished including by death.   Any zealous Muslim, not just the authorities, is justified in killing the apostate (hence why Muslim families that kill apostate children are rarely if ever prosecuted).

In the words of Muhammad—the messenger (underboss) of Allah (godfather):  “Whoever leaves his Islamic faith, kill him.”

The charge of “traitor” is especially applicable when the Muslim converts to another religion—most frequently Islam’s historic competitor, Christianity—as opposed to simply losing faith in their hearts.  Put differently, the very recent plight of Meriam Ibrahim—a Sudanese Christian wife and mother who, while pregnant, was imprisoned and sentenced to death for “apostasy”—is the tip of the iceberg of the plight of apostates under Islam.

Loyalty and Enmity

Loyalty is an absolute prerequisite of the mafia.  Following elaborate rituals of blood oaths, mafia members are expected to maintain absolute loyalty to the family, on pain of death.

Compare this with Islam’s “Loyalty and Enmity” doctrine, which calls on Muslims to be loyal to each other and their appointed emirs, even if they dislike them.

For example, Koran 9:71 declares that “The believing [Muslim] men and believing [Muslim] women are allies of one another” (see also 8:72-75). And according to Muhammad, “A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He neither oppresses him nor humiliates him nor looks down upon him…. All things of a Muslim are inviolable for his brother in faith: his blood, his wealth, and his honor”—precisely those three things of a Mafioso that are inviolable for his mafia “brother.”  (This is why Muslims like U.S. Army Major Nidal Hassan, whose “worst nightmare” was to be deployed to fight fellow Muslims, often lash out.)… Keep reading

 

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Oct 23, 2014 at 12:39 pm

    Muslim occupation of Sicily started in 9th and 10th century. It stands to reason that mafiosi learned all these Islamic tricks from them(though the present day mafia was not present in Sicily at that time but people learn from their neighbors and rulers).

    No wonder Islam is like mafiosi organization or vice versa!!

    • cassandra says

      Oct 23, 2014 at 6:06 pm

      Exactly:

      “That area of Southern Italy, in fact, was an Islamic emirate (the Emirate of Sicily) between 827 and 1091. Therefore, the Sicilian adjective mafiusu (in Italian: mafioso) may derive from the slang Arabic mahyas (مهياص), meaning “aggressive boasting, bragging”, or marfud (مرفوض) meaning “rejected”. In reference to a man, mafiusu in 19th century Sicily was ambiguous, signifying a bully, arrogant but also fearless, enterprising, and proud, according to scholar Diego Gambetta”…

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia

  2. Kash says

    Oct 23, 2014 at 12:57 pm

    I’d trust the Mafia over Islam any day.

  3. bobm says

    Oct 23, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    course; no connections or roots interwoven with Roman church orthodoxy or say…. Jesuits!?

  4. cassandra says

    Oct 23, 2014 at 6:03 pm

    The Mafia originated with the muslims who conquered Sicily: muffia or a derivative means “the strong, aggressive man”:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia

    http://www.umich.edu/~themafia/RevisedHistory.htm

    Islam is the mafia and the mafia is islam.

  5. tpellow says

    Oct 23, 2014 at 6:52 pm

    Supplementary.

    “Muslim Mafia:

    Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America.”

    by P. David Gaubatz (Author), Paul Sperry

    (‘Look Inside Book’)-

    http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize/dp/1935071106/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414104502&sr=1-1&keywords=muslim+mafia

  6. PeterB says

    Oct 24, 2014 at 11:25 am

    Another clear indicator that Islam can align with any crime or criminal organization is the term “thug”. A thug comes from the secret group of highway robbers, called “Thugees”. Google it.

    The Thugees were primarily Muslim, and they focussed their enterprise on theft and justifying the robbery and murders that they are obeying God and they deserve all the booty and slave women

  7. onisac says

    Oct 24, 2014 at 2:29 pm

    The Mafia and jihadists do not exactly parallel each other, because there are very different motives and commitments. While they will both kill anyone that doesn’t comply. One is doing it for money. The other truly believes that all kafirs are sent by Satan as evil non-believers. They are following their Qur’an, Muhammad, the Hadith, the Sira, and the ideology of Islam exactly.

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