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Islamic Supreme Council of Canada: Islamic State created by West

Mar 14, 2015 8:30 pm By Robert Spencer

Syed-SoharwardyNo surprise here. For Islamic supremacists, everything is always the Infidel’s fault. The Islamic State can’t be Islamic, and it has to have been created by Western funding, because to say that Muslims were involved would mean a Muslim did something wrong — and that’s something Islamic supremacists can never admit.

“Canadian Imams In Anti-ISIS Fatwa: ISIS Was Created By Western Interests To Remove Syrian Government; Joining It Is A Mortal Sin,” MEMRI, March 12, 2015:

On March 11, 2015, the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, a Calgary-based body headed by Imam Syed Soharwardy, issued a ‘historic fatwa’ against joining the Islamic State (ISIS). The fatwa states that ISIS is a ‘khawarij’ group,[1] and that whoever joins it or encourages others to do so in any way is committing a grave sin that excludes him from the fold of Islam.

The fatwa, signed by several dozen imams from across Canada, explains that ISIS is actually a group of ‘strangers’ that was ‘created by the funding of Western countries to overthrow the Syrian regime,’ and that it was ‘planted in Muslim countries to serve anti-Islam interests by deceiving Muslims in the name of Islam.’ It adds that ‘ISIS and other terrorists are using the policies of the United States and other Western countries in the Middle East as an excuse to control Muslim sentiments and then use them for their own political and personal gain.’

The authors of the fatwa clarify that they strongly condemn those policies of the Western countries, including Canada itself, which are ‘completely unjust, based upon Islamophobia, bias and intolerance towards Muslims.’ They also ‘condemn the highly destructive and hateful role of the media in intentionally promoting intolerance towards Islam and Muslims.’ However, they say, Muslims cannot counter anti-Islamic efforts by choosing the path of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram, and other organizations of their ilk. This is because, even while countering anti-Islamic aggression, Muslims are utterly forbidden to commit many of the deeds that ISIS has committed, such as beheading enemies, Muslim or non-Muslim, or driving them from their homes; murdering Muslims, including religious scholars, who disagree with them; and destroying mosques and tombs. The fatwa also stresses that only governments are authorized to declare a war, and that the Islamic State does not have the status of an actual state or government.

Turning to the issue of Canada’s security, the authors emphasize that Canadian Muslims have a religious duty to protect this country against anyone who wishes to harm it. They note that Canada is home to over one million Muslims who enjoy complete freedom of worship, with over 1,000 mosques and over 700 Islamic schools across the country. Hence, any attack on Canada is an attack on the freedom of Canadian Muslims. The fatwa therefore states that ‘any person who inspires people to cause harm to Canada and Canadians must immediately be reported to the Police.’

The following are excerpts from the fatwa:[2]

“A Few Years Ago, ISIS/ISIL Was Created By The Funding Of Western Countries To Overthrow The Syrian Regime”

“[The] overwhelming majority of worldwide Islamic scholars have already individually declared ISIS/ISIL un-Islamic ‘outsiders’ (KHAWARIJ) group. The attached Islamic edict (Fatwa) by the Canadian Muslim Imams and scholars is the first formal Fatwa in the world regarding ISIS/ISIL and its recruitment activities… This Fatwa has been issued in order to help Muslims especially youth to understand what Islamic laws and ethics stand for and how ISIS/ISIL is violating those laws and ethics. The consistent and constant misinterpretation and misuse of the verses of the Holy Qur’an and Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) by the ISIS/ISIL to control Muslim lands and people should be exposed and condemned.

“We hope this Fatwa will help Muslims and non-Muslims to understand what Islam requires from its followers. We also hope this Fatwa will help the Canadian government, Ministers and the Media not to link Islam, Muslims and Islamic terminologies e.g. Jihad with the violence and extremism caused by terrorists organizations like ISIS/ISIL.

We encourage other Muslim Imams and scholars to endorse this Fatwa OR issue their own fatwa in order to help Muslims not to be misguided by ISIS/ISIL…

“O ye who believe! If a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly, and afterwards become full of repentance for what ye have done. (49:6) When the Hypocrites come to thee, they say, ‘We bear witness that thou art indeed the Messenger of Allah.’ Yea, Allah knoweth that thou art indeed His Messenger, and Allah beareth witness that the Hypocrites are indeed liars. (63:1). There are several other verses in the holy Qur’an and there are several Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) clearly warning Muslims that there are and will be people apparently claiming to be Muslims but who, in fact, will be imposters who deceive Muslims in order to destroy them. Muslims must not trust such individuals or groups…

“No Muslim ever heard the name of ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)’ OR ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL)’ OR ‘Da’esh’ (داعش) OR the names of its leaders until few years ago. The sudden appearance of hitherto completely unknown persons, trying to take over the Muslim lands and the leadership of the Muslims in the Middle East, is very doubtful and suspicious. A few years ago, ISIS/ISIL was created by the funding of Western countries to overthrow the Syrian regime. These strangers cannot be trusted. Their claim to establish a ‘Caliphate’ (Khilafah Al-Islamiyah) is very suspicious, and cannot be trusted. The reasons are discussed later in this Fatwa…”…

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  1. gravenimage says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 12:10 am

    Islamic Supreme Council of Canada: Islamic State created by West
    ……………………………….

    The only thing that slightly surprises me is that they didn’t blame the Joooooooooos…

    • Lioness says

      Mar 15, 2015 at 11:25 am

      They blame Israel, that is why once a year they have a hate fest in Calgary against Jews, with the blessing of law enforcement.
      What is funny is that this clown once showed up on TV and claimed that the Muslims in Canada now are treated like the Jews in Hitler’s Germany. What an irony.

      • Bettina says

        Mar 16, 2015 at 4:02 pm

        Good info, Lioness!

    • Bettina says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 4:00 pm

      That’s right, Graven — These idiots dropped the ball by not accusing the Jooos, their perennial victim, of creating their new-not-so-new victimizers, ISIS and various assorted whacked-out muslims.
      We remember well how these nut jobs accused Israel (and the US) of setting up 9/11, don’t we?
      Is there no end to muslim paranoia and its dastardly twist on reality?
      They’re all a stupid, sorry bunch of would-be Hitlers. Very bizarre!

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 12:15 am

    Syed Soharwardy lives safely in Calgary a long way from Pakistan where he would be murdered the day after, if not the same day as he made such an announcement condemning jihadists.

    He and his cohorts do not condemn the genocide or the ethnic cleansing…just the fact that ISIS assassinates brother Muslims.

    Syed Soharwardy is actually condemning ISIS for being ‘too Islamic’. ISIS would condemn him because he is not Islamic enough.

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 12:19 am

    Ha. The caliph is not ‘a government’? He surely is. He can’t declare war? This document is a joke.

  4. livingengine says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 1:25 am

    Ezra Levant and Syed Soharwardy

  5. Jaladhi says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 7:45 am

    Does any Muslim bent on joining ISIS give any attention to these fake fatwas. All these Muslims do really want ISIS to succeed but to show us that what ISIS is doing is not Islamic the imams will issue such fatwas. To think of tt, the imams wil, say what Mo/allah did is not Islamic!

    these people are liars to the core!!

    • Bettina says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 4:10 pm

      Jaladhi, these strange people are a fine example of souls corrupted thru and thru. To call them liars is so mild and civilized, compared to the evil, mind-bending machinations ingrained in them, by islam and inbreeding. Bunch of retards!

  6. Jack Diamond says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 10:43 am

    “Muslims are utterly forbidden to commit many of the deeds that ISIS has committed, such as beheading enemies, Muslim or non-Muslim, or driving them from their homes; murdering Muslims, including religious scholars, who disagree with them; and destroying mosques and tombs.” Of course Muhammad and his companions did all those things and more. Naturally there follows no serious refutation from the Qur’an and Sunnah to the Islamic justifications of ISIS or to back up this ludicrous statement. That all these jihad waging proxies have been backed at the highest levels in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. doesn’t quite fit the narrative here, and naturally the ISIS claim to the Caliphate is “suspicious” to those of the Muslim Brotherhood (most of the “councils” in North America) who think they should be the Caliphate.

    Once again the issue (for Muslims) is (only) when the Beast turns its violence against other Muslims, Muslims who stand accused of being hypocrites and apostates (and also “excluded from the fold of Islam”) and subject to harsh Qur’anic punishments. This is in the great tradition of Islamic cannibalism and is hardly anything new. Far from being reassuring to Infidels, this whole “fatwa” is framed in the context of Western anti-Islamic conspiracies (including creating fake jihadis) where even Canadian Muslim loyalty to Canada is framed entirely (and conditionally) on the status of Islam in Canada, a loyalty that presumably could change (since it only based on a truce).

    • Jack Diamond says

      Mar 15, 2015 at 11:47 am

      Jan. 17, 2004, column written by Soharwardy:
      “Sharia cannot be customized for specific countries. These universal, divine laws are for all people of all countries for all times.”

      • Jack Diamond says

        Mar 15, 2015 at 12:28 pm

        and this was his reaction to 9/11: http://www.mediamonitors.net/soharwardy5.html

        The real victims of 9/11 are Muslims. It couldn’t have been carried out by Muslims, too sophisticated, and who benefits? –the enemies of Islam (who probably did it and framed Muslims); who will suffer most from it? Muslims; and it will become the pretext for making war on the Islamic world. The intention all along. Someone from the “dark corners of the world” did it, and one might even suspect who since “the world focus on the new Palestinian Intifadha has vanished. Now whatever Israel does in the occupied Palestine is no more important for the western world. Palestinian cause is no more the centre of world’s attention.”

        “Muslims around the world are shouting and telling the western world that they are too Against Terrorism. They have also been victim of terrorism, hate and discrimination in Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya, Kossovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, India, Burma, USA, Canada, UK and many other countries.”

        Sound familiar?

  7. Western Canadian says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 11:40 am

    This imam (Im Mentally A Moron…. apologies to real morons everywhere), is the same shrieking loon who was demanding that the local police immediately throw Ezra Levant, a local lawyer/publisher, in jail for publishing the mad mo cartoons……. Need any further information??

  8. CRUNCHY says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    Western Canuk- AMEN Brother the best comment on this page! imam lol ! you’ve got that description spot on!!

  9. LairdKintyre says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    I’m a Canadian, we know all we need to know about this old boy, Syed, check him out below,

    http://www.ezralevant.com/calgary_court_bans_syed_soharw/

    http://www.clarionproject.org/content/syed-soharwardy-sharia-cannot-be-customized-specific-countries?page=1

  10. Don says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 5:12 pm

    Well we clearly had been sending them weapons that why we had a man in Benghazi. Though I’m not a big fan of the NYT they have had ample evidence that we did indeed, if only initially, give these murderers there start.

    • Western Canadian says

      Mar 15, 2015 at 7:44 pm

      What you mean “we”, pale face???

      How about fools and frauds, the worse of which are the thug in chief in the white house, and the boot licker at 10 Downing Street, and their friends??

      • Don says

        Mar 15, 2015 at 7:59 pm

        By we I meant to say the west led by the obama administration. Now if you canucks were a part of that I can’t say but your lead people had to have known.

  11. Jon says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 7:37 am

    Uhm,… the West did fund and train ISIS. So did the Saudi’s and Qatari’s though

  12. Me says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    Western leaders are in the pockets of incredibly wealthy Sunni Muslim oil sheiks.
    Saudi foreign policy is Western foreign (and to an extent domestic) policy.

    So Saudi doesn’t like Shia Iran therefore we don’t like Iran (even though it’s no worse than Saudi)
    Saudi doesn’t like Yazidi Bashir al Assad & Syria, so we don’t like Bashir al Assad & Syria (even thought it’s a much more tolerant and accepting country than any Sunni one).
    Saudi liked Sunni ISIS when they attacked Syria – so we liked ISIS and were going to send troops to fight with/ for them, but public opinion stopped that so we sent military equipment instead.

    Saudi didn’t like ISIS any more when they said they were going to destroy the Kaaba in Mecca, so we didn’t like them any more either !

    Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal announces that they should open negotiations with Bashar al Assad and waddya know John Kerry says we should open negotiations with Bashar al Assad !

    Now Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal says Saudi is concerned about Iran’s involvement in Iraq and a nuclear armed Iraq, so watch out for a hardening of American attitude towards Iran’s nuclear program which will be attributed to Israeli / Jewish influence !

    Saudi decides America (and the West) complies.

    If you have any doubts that Western leaders are in the pockets of Sunni Islam take a look at how wealthy some previous leaders have become. Tony BLiar has received nearly all his wealth from Sunni Islamic potentates for some dubious consultancy work. You might have doubts about the reality of this, but remember that clever people will always be able to hide payments which are in reality bribes, and disguise them as something else. A failure on all our parts to ask the questions and to be suspicious will only allow a potential situation and to get worse.

    No one doubts the money outpouring from the Middle East for the promotion of Islam and its interests, why wouldn’t they seek to buy influence with leading politicians?

  13. bullfrogger says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 9:44 pm

    I’m curious as to which verses were misinterpreted or misused . We hear this same line from both sides but never the verse itself . What a shocker .

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