Egypt’s Al Azhar University — seen by many as Sunni Islam’s most authoritative voice — continues to incite enmity for and violence against non-Muslim “infidels.”
(So much for President Sisi’s exhortation before Al Azhar that its sheikhs and ulema reform Islam in a way that makes the Muslim world cease to be “a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world.”)
Political writer and thinker Dr. Khalid al-Montaser revealed in a February 2 article for El-Watan News that Al Azhar continues to encourage enmity for Christians and even incites their murder.
Montaser begins by asking, “Is it possible at this sensitive time — when murderous terrorists rest on texts and understandings of takfir,* murder, slaughter, and beheading — that Al Azhar magazine is offering free of charge a book whose latter half and every page — indeed every few lines — ends with “whoever disbelieves [infidels] strike off his head”?
Montaser goes on to mention an assortment of people who fit this profile — including Sufis, Shiites, philosophers, and Christians — as all people “deserving to be killed” according to this Al Azhar sponsored book.
In reality, however, in Egypt, it is the Christian Copts who are most targeted due to their sheer numbers (at least ten million) and the fact that, unlike the others, they — and their churches, and their crosses — stand out very clearly as true and original “infidels,” whereas Sufis, Shiites, and “philosophers” are not just much fewer in number but can and often do dissemble their identity when threatened by their more zealous kinsmen.
* Takir is when one Muslim denounces another Muslim of not being a true Muslim.
Don McKellar says
I alsways wondered what Santa does in the off season. I guess he’s pointing to the north pole in the picture?
Don says
Exactly what I was going to say.
Don McKellar says
Great Dons think alike.
Joseph says
I thought he just picked his nose, pulled out his brain and now is showing everyone how smart he is because of its size.
Or is he telling everyone his IQ?
Or is it his sperm count?
Joseph says
THAT is a good one, never thought of it. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.
Katnis says
Bad Santa
Champ says
LOL!!! 😀
Ayatrollah says
A White House aid was over heard saying “Al Azhar is islamiphobic”, after hearing this report. When someone told the aid that Al Azhar was the biggest university in the muslkms world the aid said “reporting such a story is islamiphobic”.
Don McKellar says
There is absolute, sad truth to this post.
Jay Boo says
Who are they calling Infidels?
The Serpent of Satan recited,
“…there is no god but He”
But it was clearly seen
in verse 53:19 that Muhammad came only to deceive.
Behold, Islam’s messenger is clearly from the mushrikeen.
Peter says
Apparently, no Muslim clerics have yet completed the “Islam is a religion of peace” course at the Western political elites’ Islamic Peace University.
tjhawk says
“The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something … That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not sense much ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ in what the islamic scholars are telling people to worship. Unless of course, the neighbor is a muslim.
MKG says
That was good.
Joseph says
Sure they show love. They would love to see you dead, chopped into little pieces.
Angemon says
Upon hearing this story, Obama reportedly said “Yes, but think of the crusades”…
AnneM says
Just doing what the REAL Muslim god, SATAN is telling him to say. Allah = SATAN.
Champ says
Exactly, AnneM! …he’s pointing up to honor the god of the underworld: allah/satan.
Yeah and allah is NOT the God of the Bible:
http://kingmessiahproject.com/is_allah_not_God.html
Champ says
Montaser goes on to mention an assortment of people who fit this profile — including Sufis, Shiites, philosophers, and Christians — as all people “deserving to be killed” according to this Al Azhar sponsored book.
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Thank you for bringing us the the truth about islam and company, Robert! …we certainly won’t hear this news on MSM.
What an evil perp.
R Cole says
Sisi appears to have a clear view from Egypt – whereas our leaders seem to think there is nothing wrong with Islam that needs fixing. He gets by the Islamophobia accusations for being a prominent Muslim leader. Muslims in the west have also been labeled Islamophobes – when they take a stand against political Islam – and those actively engaged in the formation of an Islamic state in place of the free west.
Reform is a bad word for these Muslims – the suggestion of – they claim is an attack on a “billion” Muslims – and ranks something like Hilter-esque on the hate scale – but yet as the proclaimed ‘peaceful’ Islam continues to slaughter its way into the 21 century – we – the rest of the world are required to pretend that their king has clothes on.
At the moment Islam is a hair-trigger religion in search of an enemy – and almost anyone and anything will do!
Just reform it!
Arthur says
If you take away all the hate, violence, and perversion from Islam, is there anything left?
To reform Islam is to make it something that it is not. Islam claims perfection as is, and, by doctrine, cannot be changed or reformed. Ask an apostate what part of Islam he/she would retain.
Zimriel says
You do realise that to “reform” something means to remake it into a different form. To reform Islam would mean to admit that God was wrong all these centuries.
MKG says
“To reform Islam would mean to admit that God was wrong all these centuries.”
There in lies the real obstacle. Who in this world, with the exception of a few disillusioned, are willing to acknowledge the path they are following, or the religion they believe is false.? And so, man proceeds to argue, fight and kill each other in the name of religion, for the sake of vanity. If a people wish to reform themselves, that is hard enough, but when a people try to reform others they will be met with resistance. This goes equally for muslims, christians, philosophers, pagans and atheists.
Good post Zimriel.
Demsci says
Yes, good post, Zimriel.
But ….. from clerics, especially Shiite ones, but not limited to them, to kings, politicians and of course our own leaders and academics we keep hearing that what ISIS does had “nothing to do with Islam”!!!
Muslims try to blame ISIS’s atrocities on Jews and Americans, claiming the Saudi’s and Qatari support ISIS BECAUSE America forces them to (Especially Iran does this a lot).
But if they can’t keep up this despicable ludicrous theory any more, they hope to hush hush all these Islamic signs ISIS carries. to begin with this black flag with Arabic letters.
But if we Westerners keep cornering “ordinary Muslims” pointing out the obvious Islamic nature and justification of ISIS, then we see …
That “normal” Muslims really claim to have a different INTERPRETATION of Quran-Hadiths-Sira.
Let us pressure them on THAT: YOUR MOST HOLY TEXTS ARE MULTI-INTERPRETABLE.
From our view: too VAIO! Vague, Ambiguous, Incomplete, Obsolete.
This should enable Muslims to ALSO formulate an interpretation that better fits Democracy, human rights.
And STILL uphold the notion that GOD WAS RIGHT, only misunderstood! or insufficiently understood, as times changed!
That or Islam is completely hopeless at odds with modern Democratic system.
I guess I am saying I hope Democratic persons will hold Muslims more and more ACCOUNTABLE for their interpretation of Quran-Hadith-Sira, whose fault, but also rescue, maybe MULTIPLE INTERPRETATION-possibility.
And we should demand accountability of Muslims
that is heavily contradicted by the deathpenalty for apostasy. Which is, and should be targeted as the WORST possible tenet or interpretation of Islam’s holy texts and clerical leaders, like those of the 4 schools of jurisprudence, as Robert Spencer points out.
As it righly is shattering and should be shattering the trustworthyness of all Muslims, because they are, by religious choice, in the same organisation as the worst, barbarous killers and oppressors of mankind. And are UNWILLING to separate from them, even FORCING them to stay in the same organisation.
Champ says
Reform islam? …talk about beating a dead horse!
Champ says
…and islam is wholly evil, and evil cannot be reformed.
Tjfan says
How can any sane human being be a muslim.
Thank you Brave Robert Spenser and Pamela Geller.
religion says
Question to those muslim fanatics: Why needs allah people to do his dirty jobs? So why is he not killing those so called unbelievers by him self if he so powerfull?
gravenimage says
Al Azhar “freely” promotes slaughter of Christians and infidels
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And Al Azhar is not only authoritative for Sunni Islam, but Sunni Islam is the foul creed’s largest sect—so this is the very definition of mainstream Islam.
More:
Montaser goes on to mention an assortment of people who fit this profile — including Sufis, Shiites, philosophers, and Christians — as all people “deserving to be killed” according to this Al Azhar sponsored book.
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This covers Infidels, minority-sect Muslims, “heretics”, and apostates and the “insufficiently Islamic”—all deserving to be slaughtered by pious orthodox Muslims.
And through the doctrine of Takfir, any Muslim deemed insufficiently Islamic can be rendered a virtual non-Muslim.
And what does that mean? That any non-Muslim is fair game for murder.
God, I hate Islam.