“Kuwaiti Researcher Abdulazziz Al-Qattan: ISIS Is the Product of Islamic Heritage,” MEMRI, March 5, 2015.
He says, referring to the ideology of the Islamic State: “Our Islamic heritage is a minefield of these deviant ideas…The problem of us Arabs is that we are not being honest with ourselves…All the books of Islamic heritage, without exception, from all Islamic sects and denominations, have enough ISIS ideology to turn your hair white.”
He then says that this ideology doesn’t come from the Qur’an or Muhammad, which is, of course, false, but understandable that he couldn’t indict the Qur’an and Muhammad while sitting in a TV studio in Kuwait. He says that the ideology comes from the Islamic jurists, and calls for a thorough reevaluation of Bukhari and the other Hadith collections, noting that they’re not infallible. It will be interesting to see what kind of reaction he gets, if any, from Muslim authorities.
Will his saying that “our Islamic heritage is a minefield of these deviant ideas” get him denounced as an “Islamophobe” by the Western Leftists and Islamic supremacists who attacked Bill Maher and Sam Harris for saying that Islam was the “mother lode of bad ideas”?
jayell says
“The problem of us Arabs is that we are not being honest with ourselves”….or anyone else!!!
Jay Boo says
He says “this ideology doesn’t come from the Qur’an or Muhammad”
He must have been studying ISIS though FBI training manuals.
mortimer says
This is good news that the dialogue is beginning among Muslims. They realize that ISLAM IS THE PROBLEM, rather than the solution.
The meticulous implementation of Islam leads to ceaseless warfare and crimes against humanity.
This is a HUGE CRACK in the edifice of Islam. Once Islam begins to be questioned by ordinary Muslims, it is finished!
Lia Wissing says
Dear Mortimer, I agree. Pres. el-Sisis has opened a crack and now the rest feel empowered to speak. Praise God!
mortimer says
Kuwaiti Researcher Abdulazziz Al-Qattan has just called the normative heritage of Islam ‘deviant’.
So, now we have permission to blame the Persians who wrote the hadiths!
But still, a MEDINAN (ibn Ishaq) wrote the Sira. Was he also a ‘deviant’?
Nat says
This is a good sign. The dialogue is starting between Muslims themselves. Take this as a glimmer of hope.
Jaladhi says
As usual this Muslim is in denial or plainly lying – he doesn’t think these “deviant ideas” come directly from Quran. He must not know how to read Quran in Arabic – or on second thought he understands Quran in Arabic better than Robert Spencer! But, but these deviant ideas have been followed by Muslims or last 1400 years waging jihad against us and in the process killing more than 300 million non-Muslims!1
The same old, same old.. Nothing wrong with Islam, Quran, Mo/allah. Keep moving….
cs says
Perhaps good intentions but he is wrong all the same.
shabeer_hassan says
@killing more than 300 million non-Muslims!1
EVIDENCE?
The Biggest Mass Murderers in History
4. Suharto —— 8m + 10k’s of Allied POW’s
3. Joseph Stalin —— 20m
2. Adolf Hitler —— 6m (Holocaust) + 42m (European deaths in WWII)
1. Mao Tse Tung —— 70m Chinese + countless others of the Far East
1 MAO ZEDONG
China (1949-76) Regime Communist Victims 60 million
China’s so-called ‘Great Helmsman’ was in fact the greatest mass murderer in history. Most of his victims were his fellow Chinese, murdered as ‘landlords’ after the communist takeover, starved in his misnamed ‘Great Leap Forward’ of 1958-61, or killed and tortured in labour camps in the Cultural Revolution of the Sixties. Mao’s rule, with its economic mismanagement and continual political upheavals, also spelled poverty for most of China’s untold millions. The country embraced capitalism long after his death.
2 JOSEPH STALIN
Soviet Union (1929-53) Regime Communist Victims 40 million
Lenin’s paranoid successor was the runner-up to Mao in the mass-murder stakes. Stalin imposed a deliberate famine on Ukraine, killed millions of the wealthier peasants – or ‘kulaks’ – as he forced them off their land, and purged his own party, shooting thousands and sending millions more to work as slaves and perish in the Gulag.
3 ADOLF HITLER
Germany (1933-45) Regime Nazi dictatorship Victims 30 million
The horror of Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship lies in the uniqueness of his most notorious crime, the Holocaust, which stands alone in the annals of inhuman cruelty. It was carried out under the cover of World War II, a conflict Hitler pursued with the goal of obtaining ‘Lebensraum’. The war ended up costing millions of lives, leaving Europe devastated and his Third Reich in ruins.
dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2091670/Hitler-Stalin-The-murderous-regimes-world.html
ADVICE THE CRIMINALS
Bunyip says
Shabeer, your argument is childish and does nothing whatsoever to exonerate your religion. How do the actions of Stalin, Hitler and the others, whom anybody in their right mind would be ashamed to support, change the fact that the koran is FULL of the same genocidal injunctions to eradicate entire populations who do not follow Mo’s depraved ideas of morality and justice?
Go back and re-read your koran. If you can show us that it isn’t so, please do- without recourse to puerile “whataboutism”.
Nat says
Those were the evils of the time period. Islam is the current evil. So add that to your list as number 4.
lairdKintyre says
Perhaps Ben Affleck should give this Islamophobe alQattan a lecture and ask him if he is “the one who fully understands the codified system of Islam”. After all, what could that reasearcher who was born and raised and studdied Islam in Classical Arabic know about Islam that Mr Affleck does not?
Mirren10 says
IS is so embarrassing for mahoundians world wide.
So we have yet another one, flailing around, trying to put the blame on anyone or anything, except where it lies; in the koran, and the character of mohammed.
Apparently its all the fault if the ‘jurists’.
So where do the ‘jurists’ get their interpretation of islam, then ? Oh, right, it’s bad hadiths. Yawn.
Beagle says
Another Muslim being honest about Islam’s problematic theology, at no small risk to his life and family. Another example of the tiny minority of non-extremists. I wish him luck.
Beagle says
By “honest” I mean short of assuring his own death. To question the Quran or Muhammad in Kuwait would do that. Cracks and fissures, too bad the West’s institutions are too deluded and infiltrated to exploit them.
Zimriel says
The metaphor of the “lode” is actually a very good one where it comes to the Hadith.
The Hadith is not like the Qur’an which Muslims have to take-it-or-leave-it. The Hadith is a VAST collection of tradition – Bukhari and Muslim just scratch the surface. (Muslim maybe a little deeper.) Try Bayhaqi. Try Ibn Abi Shayba. Or – for ISIS – Nuaym bin Hammad.
A lode is there to be mined. And there are some very bad ideas to be drilled out from those mines of Hadith. Some may be Muhammadan; some may not. It won’t matter much to al-Baghdadi.
Solange says
Mohammad did not capture the hearts and minds of his followers. He used force and terror to convert them. His entire cult is based on this.