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Muslim Youth League UK declares jihad against the Islamic State

Mar 31, 2015 2:37 pm By Robert Spencer

Rehan Ahmed Raza“Our efforts are aimed at deterring further ISIS recruitment in Britain and defending the Muslim community, who feel their religion has been hijacked.” Stopping Islamic State recruitment in the West is just what we have not seen from Muslims who condemn the Islamic State, so that’s all to the good. But “a seven-point declaration calling the killing of any person un-Islamic”? It would be interesting to see how the Muslim Youth League UK explains these Qur’an 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.”

4:89: “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.”

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!’”

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.”

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.”

“Young British Muslims declare own jihad against Isis and other terrorists who ‘hijack’ Islam,” by Lizzie Dearden, the Independent, March 31, 2015:

A group of young British Muslims have declared their own “jihad” against Isis and all other terrorist groups.

The Muslim Youth League UK announced an ideological holy war against the Islamic State at a conference in Glasgow on Sunday, saying militants had “no link with Islam or the Muslim community”.

It is concerned that recruitment by the group is on the rise in the UK, targeting teenage girls and boys with gory propaganda videos and social media accounts boasting of life under the “caliphate”.

Shaykh Rehan Ahmed Raza, president of Muslim Youth League UK, said: “Our efforts are aimed at deterring further ISIS recruitment in Britain and defending the Muslim community, who feel their religion has been hijacked.”

He announced a seven-point declaration calling the killing of any person un-Islamic, whatever their faith, and condemning extremists’ “deviation” from the teachings of Prophet Muhammad and the Koran.

“The emergence of the terrorists, who would use the name of Islam to justify their atrocious activities, was prophesied by Prophet Muhammad. He declared them as being out of the ambit of Islam,” the declaration continues.

“We challenge Isis, similar groups and their supporters ideologically and intellectually.”

The league also announced that it rejects Islamophobic “labelling” of Muslims as extremists or terrorists by politicians, the media and public.

“We ask Muslims from all walks of life, regardless of the school of thought to which they belong, to stand united against extremists who have hijacked the true teachings of Islam,” its declaration added.

“We call upon scholars and community leaders to raise a united and unwavering voice against extremism.”

While an unknown number of British men, women and teenagers have joined Isis in Iraq or Syria, its atrocities against civilians and the murder of foreign hostages has provoked widespread condemnation.

The Muslim Youth League and other groups are fighting back against its propaganda online and through engagement work in schools and communities….

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  1. Buraq says

    Mar 31, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    Smoke and mirrors for dhimmi wishful thinkers! The Muslim Youth League UK is angling for a tasty chunk of taxpayers’ subsidy from the British government.

    Clowns on both sides!

    • kevin says

      Mar 31, 2015 at 3:10 pm

      Yes i was just about to comment the same thing, they will certainly be looking for government money to subsidize them for pretending to be peaceful, like all these other muslim “moderate” groups that the government finances, they will take with one hand and secretly give to terrorist sponsoring charity groups with the other

    • Mirren10 says

      Apr 1, 2015 at 10:14 am

      ” The Muslim Youth League UK is angling for a tasty chunk of taxpayers’ subsidy from the British government.”

      *Exactly* what I thought, as soon as I read this specious nonsense. As Robert points out, they have made no attempt to either get to grips with the koranic verses, *or* the character of the vile mohammed, which is the entire bedrock of this vile religion.

      ”The Muslim Youth League UK announced an ideological holy war against the Islamic State at a conference in Glasgow on Sunday, saying militants had “no link with Islam or the Muslim community”.

      More specious rubbish. The father of the three mohammedan bints who went to Syria is on record supporting islamic supremacism, choudhary, and abdelejo. I’d say that was a very clear link to the ‘muslim community’.

      Robert says;

      ”Stopping Islamic State recruitment in the West is just what we have not seen from Muslims who condemn the Islamic State, so that’s all to the good”

      I disagree. Why stop it ? We need to flush out these people; out of our country, cancel their passports, and never let them back in. Stopping them from going just leaves them free in our countries with the opportunity to plot to murder us all.

      • Huck Folder says

        Apr 2, 2015 at 1:19 am

        “…’prophesied’ by ‘Prophet’ Muhammad. He declared them as being out of the ambit of Islam”

        Citations please.

  2. Don McKellar says

    Mar 31, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    “But “a seven-point declaration calling the killing of any person un-Islamic”? It would be interesting to see how the Muslim Youth League UK explains these Qur’an passages…”

    Well we will never know because they’ll never address them or any of the other bloody violence endorsed and fully sanctioned in their own religion. It’s called kitman, isn’t it? I believe that’s the name of the form of Islamic lying that we see endless moslem spokesmen use where they only quote parts of passages and omit other, violent parts when lying to infidels. Almost certainly the Muslim Youth League will sharpen up their kitman and taqiyya chops while crafting such a deceptive document. If they don’t practice those two forms of Islamic lying, they’re going to get themselves in a lot of trouble and simply recruit more jihadis for the Islamic State. After all, that’s how the Islamic State continues to gain momentum: by being the most pure and unapologetic practitioners of Islam and the example of the warlord Mohammad, and quoting and following the Koran and hadiths as accurately as possible.

    • Georg says

      Mar 31, 2015 at 6:43 pm

      I wish this weren’t such a pragmatic warning/prediction, but they’ve burnt bridges and remain anyway, so we’re left with no choice but to defend ourselves and begin from a place somewhere between skepticism and disdain considering the disrespect with which they
      have and do respond to the good will of the British people– our hand has been forced, and forgiveness is now dependant upon future deeds, not present words. We are long passed congeniality.

  3. Raphael Gamaroff says

    Mar 31, 2015 at 3:36 pm

    What translation of the Qur’an are THEY reading!

  4. Georg says

    Mar 31, 2015 at 4:07 pm

    I conditionally approve of and congratulate their step in the right direction. I will however be expecting not to see:

    Requests for oodles of money

    An equivalence drawn between reasonable criticism of Islam and the unreasonable ideology of Islamists

    No Muslim Brotherhood anyway, anyhow

    No whackos involved

    No $ from whackos

    No blaming the British police/intslligence for being responsible for jihadis’ flights from Britain

    • Georg says

      Mar 31, 2015 at 4:14 pm

      And no other amount of irrationality/unreasonableness that turns the whole venture into an anti-British/White/Kuffar source of bigotry or whatever else rendering the venture a farce (please excuse any double-negatives above)

  5. Caroline says

    Mar 31, 2015 at 4:47 pm

    The Islamists showed their hand too soon. The British public are waking up to what these people really are. I would not trust any of them as far as I could throw them. The Muslims in Britain are starting to worry about the backlash.

  6. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Mar 31, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    Hypothesis: This report by the Independent constitutes journalistic malpractice.

    (1) ==QUOTE== Shaykh Rehan Ahmed Raza, president of Muslim Youth League UK, said: “Our efforts are aimed at deterring further ISIS recruitment in Britain and defending the Muslim community, who feel their religion has been hijacked.”
    He announced a seven-point declaration calling the killing of any person un-Islamic, whatever their faith, and condemning extremists’ “deviation” from the teachings of Prophet Muhammad and the Koran. ==UNQUOTE==

    Okay, where is the link to the text of this seven-point declaration, and what are the seven points? (I can see only two, neither of which cites scriptural justification.)

    (2) ==QUOTE== “The emergence of the terrorists, who would use the name of Islam to justify their atrocious activities, was prophesied by Prophet Muhammad. He declared them as being out of the ambit of Islam,” the declaration continues. ==UNQUOTE ==
    What? A prophecy by the Prophet (pbuh)? What exactly does it say? Name the hadith that is its source. Is it a sahih hadith? Or is this prophecy in the Quran? If so, cite sura and aya.

    Part of the job of a journalist is to find answers to the questions that a reader will have. In this report, there is no effort to answer these obvious questions.

    • Hiffy says

      Mar 31, 2015 at 8:13 pm

      Their full declaration is on their website: http://myl.org.uk/jihad-against-isis.aspx

      They are using the following theses as their theological evidence against ISIS. All the points in the seven-point declaration have been drawn from there:
      http://www.quranandwar.com/FATWA%20on%20Terrorism%20and%20Suicide%20Bombings.pdf

      • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

        Apr 1, 2015 at 12:03 am

        Thank you, Hiffy, for these links; you are a better journalist than the Independent.

        http://myl.org.uk/jihad-against-isis.aspx
        lists the seven points, but gives no scriptural justification for any of them. Point 3 is particularly interesting, because it promises a prophecy by Muhammad but does not report exactly what it says or where it comes from. What a disappointment!

        The other reference is to a 512-page(!) .pdf document with lots of squid-ink prose. Page 3 refers to Quran 5:32, but does not mention that it applies only to Jews; and the punishments of 5:33 are not discussed.
        Chapter 3 (page 91) is titled “The Unlawfulness of Indiscriminately Killing Non-Muslims and Torturing Them”. So kafirs must be killed and tortured only discriminately.

        • John Magne Trane says

          Apr 1, 2015 at 2:43 am

          Excellent work. Robert Spencer has already taken apart that fatwa from those who want “the infidels executed like dogs”… One of them is the general secretary of Norway’s “CAIR”, so I am accustomed to their ilk.

  7. citycat says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 12:00 am

    Islam is creeping with engagement work

    Islam is creeping with new approval

    It is not that the voice is against extremism,

    it is that the voice is Islam United

    whatever whatever whatever
    Islam says, does, or doesn’t, is only one thing

    Jihad- kill or convert.

  8. orrick says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 3:39 am

    “He announced a seven-point declaration calling the killing of any person un-Islamic, whatever their faith,….”

    So, beleiving and following the koran is un-islamic?

  9. duh_swami says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 5:21 am

    There may be a few nominal Mahoundians who think ISIS is hijacking something, but it’s very difficult to get around their founding documents, particularly the Quran. The perfect book, good for all time, the direct and living words of Allah. How to get around Allah’s words and avoid apostasy is tricky. Shaykh Rehan Ahmed Raza can easily become a target of ISIS fans who think it is he who is hijacking the religion…

  10. ECAW says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 6:24 am

    Some great points above. Why not take them to where they’re needed:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/young-british-muslims-declare-own-jihad-against-isis-and-other-terrorists-who-hijack-islam-10146534.html

    Registering to comment at the Independent is very straightforward and they don’t appear to zap anything off the party line.

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Apr 1, 2015 at 2:52 pm

      ECAW, Thanks for that information. I was about to follow your suggestion, when I noticed that someone named ECAWBLOG (who dat?) had beaten me to the punch, writing:
      ==QUOTE==
      …a seven-point declaration calling the killing of any person un-Islamic”
      Do they imagine we haven’t read the Koran?
      This is a remarkably incurious piece of journalism. See the comments here for some of the questions the journalist should have asked:
      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/03/muslim-youth-league-uk-declares-jihad-against-the-islamic-state
      ==UNQUOTE==
      I’m still wondering about the source and text of that Mo-prophecy.

      • ECAW says

        Apr 1, 2015 at 3:23 pm

        “I’m still wondering about the source and text of that Mo-prophecy.”

        You mean this Mark?

        “..the Prophet’s promise to Christians (A.D. 628) that Christians and their places of worship were to be protected “till the end of days”

        I find it infuriating the way Muslim apologists are so lax about giving sources. It’s almost as though they know that no sane Kafir is going to waste much time tracking them down so they can say pretty much what they like.

        I haven’t bothered with the Independent for a long time, it was just that it was here in front of me this morning. As you will have seen the number of commenters and voters is miniscule. The Guardian is much better but they tend to zap anything too close to the truth. What they seem to particularly dislike is quotes from the Koran etc unless they come from someone called Mohammed or Abdul and prove how peaceloving Islam is.

        • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

          Apr 1, 2015 at 3:39 pm

          Thanks for that reference, ECAW, but where is it from, and who does it apply to — to all Christians and Muslims ever and everywhere, including on a colonized Moon and Mars? And who gave Muhammad the right to bind all future Muslims to his promises? Also, a promise is not a prophecy.
          I share your frustration that we have to depend on kafirs for proper citations of Islamic sources.

        • ECAW says

          Apr 1, 2015 at 4:13 pm

          Yes, I think the poster must have been referring to the Covenant:

          18. No one shall bear arms against them, but, on the contrary, the Muslims shall wage war for them.

          19. And by this I ordain, that none of my nation shall presume to do or act contrary to this my promise, until the end of the world.

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

          Robert Spencer pointed out why it is likely to be a later forgery:

          http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/huffington-post-muhammads-beliefs-on-how-to-treat-religious-minorities-make-him-a-universal-champion-of-human-rights

  11. liveandletlive says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 6:26 am

    This is a step in the right direction. We should not forget that the Qur’an is as open to interpretation as the bible. There are plenty of passages there that command the killing of a various sorts of people. Just a few examples:

    “If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you … Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die.” — Dt.13:6-10

    A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27)

    Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15)

    • Mirren10 says

      Apr 2, 2015 at 7:12 am

      ”This is a step in the right direction. We should not forget that the Qur’an is as open to interpretation as the bible. There are plenty of passages there that command the killing of a various sorts of people.”

      Yet another moronic moral equivalencer.

      People like you quote from the Old Testament, (never from the New Testament, I notice) in order to apologise for islam.

      What you **never, ever do** is to notice that there are **no** Christians or Jews, today, acting on these quotes.

      There are, however, millions of mohammedans who are, today, **acting on** the tenets of the koran.

      You assert the koran is ‘open to interpretation’. So, explain why it is, that the ‘interpretation’ of the koran is interpreted by pious mohammedans everywhere in exactly the same way; death to the infidels, rape, torture, beheadings, crucifixions, theft and destruction.

  12. Mark says

    Apr 4, 2015 at 10:50 am

    All muslims in our countries are DOING JIHAD!

    At the moment the majority of them are doing jihad with the tongue, warfare lying, al taqiyya, to disguise everything about islams past, its mainstream teachings, (quran, hadith and sunna) and their evil agenda for all us non muslims.

    So they can ultimately deceive our leaders into doing nothing, build up in numbers, then turn round and do jihad with the sword.

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