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Howard Dean on the Charlie Hebdo murderers: “I stopped calling these people Muslim terrorists. They’re about as Muslim as I am.”

Jan 7, 2015 5:30 pm By Robert Spencer

DeanThe gunmen screamed “Allahu akbar” and declared, “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad” as they murdered people in the offices of a publication that had mocked him. They couldn’t be Muslim terrorists! But Howard Dean says, “They have no respect for anybody else’s life, that’s not what the Koran says.”

Well, let’s look at what the Qur’an says:

Perhaps Houllebecq skipped over these passages:

2:191-193: “And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is more grievous than slaying. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, slay them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate. Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers.”

4:34: “Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that Allah has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for Allah’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. If they then obey you, look not for any way against them; Allah is All-high, All-great.”

4:89: “They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.”

5:33: “This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement.”

5:38: “And the thief, male and female: cut off the hands of both, as a recompense for what they have earned, and a punishment exemplary from Allah; Allah is All-mighty, All-wise.”

8:12: “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, “˜I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers” hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!–

8:39: “Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s entirely; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the things they do.”

8:60: “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to terrify thereby the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.”

9:5: “Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”

9:29: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden — such men as practise not the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book — until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been humbled.”

9:111: “Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph.”

9:123: “O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing.”

47:4: “When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send their works astray.”

“Howard Dean: Don’t Call Paris Shooters ‘Muslim Terrorists,'” MRC Newsbusters, January 7, 2015 (thanks to Claire):

Howard Dean—that celebrated scholar of Islam—has weighed in on today’s murderous rampage in Paris, declaring that he refuses to call the shooters in this and similar cases “Muslim terrorists.”…

…HOWARD DEAN: You know, this is a chronic problem. I stopped calling these people Muslim terrorists. They’re about as Muslim as I am. I mean, they have no respect for anybody else’s life, that’s not what the Koran says. Europe has an enormous radical problem. I think ISIS is a cult. Not an Islamic cult. I think it’s a cult….

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  1. Angemon says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:38 pm

    HOWARD DEAN: You know, this is a chronic problem. I stopped calling these people Muslim terrorists. They’re about as Muslim as I am. I mean, they have no respect for anybody else’s life, that’s not what the Koran says.

    Cue in Ben Affleck:

    ““Hold on – are you the person who officially understands the codified doctrine of Islam?”“

    • PRCS says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 5:59 pm

      I was thinking the same thing.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 7:38 pm

      Hello Angemon —

      Let me jump in, as a lifelong Democrat — Obama’s words — “THE FUTURE MUST NOT BELONG TO THOSE WHO SLANDER THE PROPHET OF ISLAM ”

      Check out the Howard Dean video at 55 SECONDS. He is a very smart guy but completely saturated in Western Privilege Guilt.

      If you want to send him a Reality Check : polite and brief : hdean@democracyforamerica.com

      ———————

    • Sovereign Man says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 9:26 pm

      Perfect comment, Angemon.

      • mortimer says

        Jan 8, 2015 at 1:51 am

        Let me jump in.
        Howard, any Muslim who doesn’t support Sharia isn’t a Muslim…he’s an apostate. The following is Sharia:

        BLASPHEMY PUNISHMENTS FROM SHARIA AND KORAN
        From Islamic Commentaries:
        -“Insulting the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is one of the worst of forbidden actions… whether done seriously or in jest. The one who does that is to be EXECUTED even if he repents and whether he is a Muslim or a kaafir.” – Al-Saarim al-Maslool, 2/438
        -as-Suyuti writes: “(If they break their oaths…) This ayah (K. 9:11-12) is used as a proof by those who say that if a dhimmi attacks Islam or the Qur’an or mentions the Prophet in a bad manner, HE IS KILLED, whether he has broken a treaty or not. Those who say that his repentance is accepted use as a proof, “hopefully they will stop.””
        -“(And if they) the people of Mecca (break their pledges) which are between you and them (after their treaty (has been made with you) and assail your religion) and defame the Religion of Islam, (then fight the heads of disbelief) fight the leaders of disbelief: Abu Sufyan and his host. (Lo! they have no binding oaths in order that they may desist) from breaking their pledges.” -Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs

        -“It is related that a man forged lies against the Prophet and he sent ‘Ali and az-Zubayr to kill him. Ibn Qani’ related that a man came to the Prophet and said, “Messenger of Allah, I heard my father say something ugly about you, so I killed him,” and that did not distress the Prophet. – Hadith
        Koranic Verses Censoring Criticism of Islam:
        K.2:193. “And fight them until there is no more Fitnah” (disagreeing with Mohammed)
        i.e. fight and kill disbelievers until no one expresses disagreement with Mohammed.
        K.9:11-12 “But if they violate their oaths after their covenant, and taunt you for your Faith, – fight ye the chiefs of Unfaith, for their oaths are nothing to them, that thus they may be restrained.”
        K.58:5 “Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be laid low”

        The Muslims you get your info from aren’t Muslims or else they’re lying about Sharia’s blasphemy rules.

  2. Asma Marwan says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    An ignorant man shows just how ignorant he is about the Koran.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 6:40 pm

      But Asma Marwan understood about the Holy Ko-Ran, probably soon after the Yathrib Jews kindly took in the destitute Holy Prophet and his Companions. She certainly understood after Abu was offed in a night time contract murder. For her it was a short lived knowledge, but she knew, and she sang what she knew, and that much was good. She today is a lesson for us all, just like the journalists at Charlie Hedbo.

      • Salah says

        Jan 8, 2015 at 2:06 am

        “When the apostle heard what she had said he said, ‘Who will rid me of Marwan’s daughter?’ ‘Umayr b. ‘Adiy al-Khatmi who was with him heard him, and that very night he went to her house and killed her. In the morning he came to the apostle and told him what he had done and he said, ‘You have helped God and His apostle, O ‘Umayr!’ ”
        Biography of the Prophet, Ibn Ishaq p.676

        http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/03/assassin-english.html

        I wonder if Howard Dean considers Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, to be a true Muslim???

      • Roderick MacUalraig says

        Jan 8, 2015 at 4:37 am

        Indeed, HPAPF…

        Je Suis CHARLIE!

  3. Dracula says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    I guess that means Howard Dean converted to some Islamic school.

    Think he’d actually look pretty distinguished with a Muhammadan beard, though.

  4. Mike says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    This guy lacks horse-sense. He tried to be President of the US. Think of where we would be now if he had won.

    • Wellington says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 6:08 pm

      I’d say approximately where we are now with Obama.

  5. bobm says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    You have just legitimized and lifted up islam; Mr. Dean ; should we put you on watch list?….. you cannot find veracity in any part of the tree of islam… from root to fruit…. it is a cult.

  6. Wellington says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    Again can be seen that willful ignorance of evil is worse than evil itself. Fitting that it should be Howard Dean here, who while he won’t condemn Islamic terrorists as Muslims has said truly vile things about Republicans (e.g., that Republicans aren’t really Americans).

    Memo to Howard Dean: I’m a Republican And an American, you twit, and you are so profoundly ignorant of Islam that you are an abettor to Islamic evil. You are a bad and stupid man, Howard Dean.

  7. James Foard says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    This idiot is a medical doctor who once ran for President. He’s wealthy and educated. I’m nobody, living on a pension, struggling with medical bills, but I see the world clearer than he does. Perhaps that is why our Lord said, “Blesses are the poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God”. Luke 6:20
    I constantly wonder how these men of prestige, position and power can be so ignorant.

    • citycat says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 6:11 pm

      I guess then that they are not ignorant but wilful cowardly traitors

    • Roderick MacUalraig says

      Jan 8, 2015 at 4:42 am

      And In the grand scheme that makes you and I far more than him.

      R/ Mac

  8. bobm says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    in the garden ; the one who walked about in splendor covering al things ; who became satan; the father of islam (lies)…….. I am he that covereth;;;;he would say today;… only now he and his agents are covering up the in your face truth and reality of islam…. putting all to sleep…. the sand man.

  9. Bezelel says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    He drank the koolaide, that magical potion that makes everyone say “This has nothing to do with islam.” They are forming a cult of their own.

  10. Myxlplik says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    Well that’s interesting, because didn’t Mohammed himself order the killings of several poets and satirists who mocked him and his religion? I suppose Mohammed is unIslamic as well?

  11. somehistory says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    Well, well, well. Dean is a muslim and has *outed* himself as belonging to a *cult.* Helping to build the image of the beast, wishing to ensure he is allowed to buy and sell, hoping that, although he may have lost his head just before he screamed out *Yeah* and then lost the race to president, he won’t lose his head to the blade. But, there’s no guarantee of that, as the *chief* beheader found out.

  12. Oliver says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    A ll of these people mocking this moron. he has AT LEAST ONE POINT CORRECT. COPIED/PASTED– I think ISIS is a cult.

    Of course, the rest is pure bull crap. But, what can one expect from a liberturd demorat?

  13. Slobbering Fits says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 7:03 pm

    I dont get these troll who think they have the right to define a religion .Im more comfortable with the empty words ensuring this has nothing to do with real Islam .

  14. Jaladhi says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 7:42 pm

    When these Western politicians open their mouth, they show their stupidity!! Its appalling!!

  15. Dennis says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    Howard is another useless idiot.

  16. Gabriel says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 9:47 pm

    Think about your comments as you now judge yourselves. This is not what Allah wanted for us to do such actions to people. Let their own ignorance be and look past no further than your own nose for how can this please the great Allah? Can we just let Allah do the work and judge, this is not our job. To do such things is showing the great Allah you are greater than Him, who created all things! My respect goes to Muhammad and Jesus as well. This man does not know the Kuran, yes. Yet to pull only sections out of context is false, for the Kuran as a whole was given to Islam, not only sections. For it is the same with the Bible, to take only part of the story, one can manipulate it. If Allah wanted this so, only that section would of been given. So shall we be ignorant to the rest of the book, both the Bible and Kuran? If one is so proud to judge than again I say judge oneself. What was published was wrong and I agree was a lack of respect. All of us must face Allah one day, on his time not ours. Please stop and Pray. Peace be with you.

    • Richie says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 10:27 pm

      The Koran is demonic, the cult of Islam a death cult. You can’t polish a turd, at the end of the day Islam is crap

      • Gabriel says

        Jan 7, 2015 at 10:49 pm

        Your personal cult is a cult for calling another faith a cult. Verbally acting like a radical to argue against radicalism makes you a radical indeed. I myself believe in the trinity and believe Muhammed was a good man as well. Are you not being “demonic” for saying such ignorant words fueling this violence? Peace be with you my friend. I wish you well.

        • Richie says

          Jan 7, 2015 at 11:31 pm

          Muhammad was a child rapist and a serial killer, the man- assuming he existed at all, had no redeeming qualities. Muslims are currently committing genocide against Christians all over the middle east, and are practicing slavery. How is my opposing such depraved behavior a cult? To suggest Islam is not committing these barbaric acts would be ignorant

        • Western Canadian says

          Jan 8, 2015 at 1:44 am

          You do not wish him peace, you wish him stupid enough to swallow your drivel and lies.

        • Tradewinds says

          Jan 8, 2015 at 2:17 pm

          Warlord Muhammad was evil. He inflicted evil Islam upon the world. Just shut up, Muslim.

    • Western Canadian says

      Jan 8, 2015 at 1:38 am

      Spoken like some moron who has never read the Bible…. and lies about the filthy koran.

      You should be ashamed of yourself, but being a muislim, you are not capable of it, no matter how much deserved.

    • Champ says

      Jan 8, 2015 at 2:10 am

      Wow Gabriel you are one mixed up guy, and you wouldn’t know the Truth of God if it bit you in the arse! ..just sayin’

    • duh_swami says

      Jan 8, 2015 at 5:59 am

      Gabriel never existed, Gabby…If Gabriel did exist and really did reveal all this trash to Mahound, how do you know for sure that these are the words of Allah and not Gabriele’s? How do you know for sure that Gabriel was not Iblis in disguise, or maybe Dajjal? You don’t know that and you cannot know that.
      Why didn’t Allah appear to Mahound in person? He did it for Moses when he had a conversation as a burning bush…No burning bushes for Mahound…I guess Allah liked Moses more than he liked Mahound. Is that racist?

  17. Richie says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 10:25 pm

    Dean is a nutcase. Even in liberal circles he is considered to be out to lunch

  18. patsw says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    What actions would Muslims have to take before Howard Dean could call them “Muslim terrorists”?

  19. patsw says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    Then what must a Muslim do before Howard Dean can call them a “Muslim terrorist”?

    • Oliver says

      Jan 9, 2015 at 2:01 pm

      To PatSw,

      perhaps when Muslim terrorists who have nothing to do with Islam are about to decapitate him.

  20. Andy says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 11:00 pm

    Don’t you realize that allahu akbar is the very password to kill, torture, rape, stab, others? And the word “This is nothing to do with islam” is “Access granted” from the ignorant people to let jihadist spread out the massage that islam is the greatest

  21. Rob says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 2:06 am

    This guy is a total idiot. More to the point, he is a dhimmi. This song was written about people like him. Disgusting! Here it is:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydBD-6izYfE&spfreload=10

  22. duh_swami says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 6:09 am

    The mentally ill elite make statements about Islam, without ever cracking a book, or studying anything connected. Pretending that you know something when you don’t is dishonest. That’s not a good path, but it is the one they are on. It’s called the ‘Primrose Path’, and they are trying to lead us down it. To what end? The elite don’t know but they don’t want us to know that they don’t know. So they lie, and then lie some more.

  23. Tradewinds says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 2:19 pm

    Dean is a jackass. He defends mass-murdering Islam.

  24. D.C. Watson says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    A witless buffoon if there ever was one, this Howard Dean. If he has actually opened a Qur’an and read its verses, he would know exactly what they say. All I have heard on the news today is that terrorists are “perverting” Islam and that we are threatened by “radical” Islam. Politically correct and pathetic, the media is once again derelict in its duty to report the news factually. .

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