The Mufti of Egypt has shown himself to be a disingenuous purveyor of deception rather than reform twice recently — see here and here. And here again we see it: if he is really going to “clarify and explain the facts about ‘true Islam,’ why isn’t he meeting with Muslims? At least according to this story, he is only meeting with non-Muslim governing officials. So it seems as if this is just another exercise in fostering complacency in Infidels rather than working for any genuine reform.
“Grand Mufti heads to Europe in efforts to combat radical Islam,” by Menna Zaki, Daily News Egypt, April 19, 2015:
Egypt’s Grand Mufti, Shawki Allam, headed to Europe Sunday in efforts to clarify and explain the facts about “true Islam”, with the aim of combating extremist ideologies.
Allam leads Dar Al-Ifta, Egypt’s foremost religious authority for issuing fatwas (religious edicts).
Allam is scheduled to have high-level meetings with political and executive leaders in Europe, including the Dutch Foreign Minister. He will also visit the Dutch Parliament and the French Senate.
The meetings come within the efforts to modify the image of Islam, which the Mufti believes has been distorted by “terrorist groups”. The Grand Mufti reiterated his condemnation of radical Islam and extremism on several occasions, as the ideologies of radical Islam are on the rise, especially with the spread of “Islamic State” (IS) and its affiliates worldwide…
Earlier in April, controversial posters were plastered on public transportation in Philadelphia criticising Islam, in what Dar Al-Ifta described as a “racist” campaign….
What race is Islamic antisemitism again? I keep forgetting.
Renee says
Well Mr Koenders, please ask the Mufti if in his view Mr Wilders should be killed for criticising islam and Mohammed. Then most likely, you can cut the conversation really really short. Unless the Mufti does not adhere to true islam, which would be news!
Lucian Eugen says
I am willing to bet my neck he will never respond directly to a question like this. No mufti facing a non-muslim will ever do.
gravenimage says
Egypt’s Mufti going to Europe to fight “radical Islam” by meeting with non-Muslims
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In other words, this is all Taqiyya for the Kuffar, and nothing else. Somehow I imagine the “extremist ideologies” he is intent on combatting is more peaceful “Islamophobia” than violent Islam.
And Shawki Allam has been doing this for some time, going on a campaign of Da’wa in the MSM: WSJ, Newsweek, the Huffington Post.
And to show what he *really* thinks of the filthy Infidel, he has a grotesque piece on his Facebook page extolling dhimmitude. He also extolls Shari’ah law.
https://www.facebook.com/DrShawkyAllamENG
Mirren10 says
Of course, as you rightly say, it’s taqiyya.
Anyone with a functioning brain cell should be able to figure *that* out. As Robert points out, if this was at all an honest exercise, this Mufti would be talking to **muslims**. We, after all, are not the ones beheading, murdering, etc, in the name of islam. That would be the Mufti’s fellow muslims !
But there will be **no** Western government figure, let alone a *religious* figure, who will have the balls to point this out.
No, we will be treated to yet more abysmal handwringing, and be expected to swallow this meretricious **bullshit**.
I am so **sick** of it all.
gravenimage says
I am sick to death of this too, Mirren—when Muslims “fighting extremism” means insisting to credulous Infidels that “real” Islam isn’t violent. It;’s just such obvious bullsh*t, and insults our intelligence.
The depressing thing, of course, is how many how many clueless, hopeful Kuffar are eager to swallow this crap.
particolor says
Is He A Muslim ? Did His Lips Move ? Ill say no more ! 🙁
Lucretius says
gravenimage, could you point more specifically to where Shawki Allam extols dhimmitude?
I read an article on jihad linked to his English language Facebook page:
http://eng.dar-alifta.org/foreign/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=12&text=humanity
It’s entitled “Jihad: Myths and Facts. And it’s a good title if one understands it to mean “Jihad: I will tell you myths and you will think they’re facts.”
It doesn’t say he authored it, but by linking endorses it. Jihad is presented as “a just war of the sort that can be found in every religious law and civil code.” It is rooted in Islam, “the last revelation from God to all mankind,” so that like all other concepts of Islam, it “transcends the boundaries of space, time and race to encompass all of humanity in its fold.” The article then begins to condition this concept by referring to the “greater and lesser jihad”, claiming the jihad al-nafs is “the hardest because it requires discipline and hard work,” (and the jihad al-qitaal does not?). There is no hint that this “greater and lesser jihad” hadith is widely considered weak or fraudulent. Dr. Muhammad Amin even ridicules the idea the “greater” jihad is more difficult. (See http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Lesser_vs_Greater_Jihad )
Next the article claims the Quran extols the sanctity of human life, quoting 5:32, “we ordained for the children of Israel that if anyone kills a person, except for murder and spreading mischief”…”if anyone saves a life, it is as if he saved all mankind.” As usual there is silence on the context of his quote, wherein the Jews are said to have continued being transgressors even after being forbidden, and that the punishment for such transgressors is “only to be killed, or crucified, or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides….” So keep mum that Islam’s idea of life’s sanctity is no bar to such cruelty.
There is too much else that is slippery in this article to cover here, but one claim in it stuck out, that “in jihad, one finds himself…more than ready to sacrifice his life for…establishing freedom of religion and thought.” How Voltairesque ! And this encapsulates the whole bent of the article, to make it seem that there’s nothing at all incompatible in jihad with enlightenment principles. And it achieves this impression, as with all the claims it makes, simply by never mentioning, let alone wrestling with inconvenient texts, such as those regarding apostasy and blasphemy.
“Why do the wicked prosper, growing old and powerful?” Job 12:7
Raja says
How many Islamist have said radical Islam is from the devil? to my knowledge NONE. Alternatively how many “good muslims” have claimed the terrorists are from the Satan the devil? I haven’t come across any!!!
On the one hand Islam seems to be perfectly peaceful on the other hand Islam is the root cause of most violent evils. I infer that Islamists not only lie and deceive about their religion they are superb contradiction-mangers in a leftist centered society. Don’t they know that action speaks lauder than words ?
In this monkey business of managing Islam the leftists will eat all your pie / votes in guise of protecting you, similar to the story of a monkey and two cats..
If the world had any empathy for all millions slaughtered in the name of Islam (The Armenians, Iraqis, Syrians, Hindus Jews and so on) the world would have been a much better place today. Today the world doesn’t care about those butchered and the leaders hardened scoundrels to beat around the bush!!!! A really sorry state of affairs !!!!
tilda says
First principles: if you want to know what something is, then look at what it does.
Joseph says
if he is really going to “clarify and explain the facts about ‘true Islam,
“true Islam”
IT IS TRUE
They want to kill, enslave or tax non-believers
They will kill apostates
They will kill mockers of Mo or Islam
They will kill other Muslims if their “flavor” of Islam is different
They believe F.G.M. is OK
They think wife beating is OK
They think rape of non-believers is OK
They think Rape of minors is OK (underage marriage)
They believe sex with animals is OK
They believe stoning to death for adultery is OK
They believe stoning to death a rape victim is OK
They believe child abuse is OK (teaching children to murder and hate)
They believe slavery is OK
They believe amputation for minor theft is OK
They believe violence against non-believers(terrorism) is OK
They think worshiping Satan is good.
IN FACT THEY BELIEVE EVERYTHING THAT IS EVIL IS OK
The only thing they don’t believe in is living peacefully with the rest of the world.
I believe Islam must go!!
Michael Copeland says
They are REQUIRED to believe all those things: there is no freedom of conscience
They are INSTRUCTED to do so, with “no option”.
“It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger to have any option about their decision: if any one disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he is indeed on a clearly wrong Path.”
Koran 33:36 (part of Islamic law)
Citing this verse, Dr Salah al-Sawy issued a fatwa:
“the [muslim community] possesses no power except to acknowledge and obey”.
He was the Secretary-General of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), 28 March 2011:
Joseph says
You hit the nail on the head when you said “there is no freedom of conscience” I could not have said it better.
To have a conscious one would see what is wrong is wrong. Hate is a powerful tool. All dictators like Hitler knew this.
More Ham Ed says
The fakeness of islam needs daily PR, excuses, whitewashing, image-fixing, liberal-media-hype, apologetics, deception, lying, smoke & mirrors, window-dressing, etc.
Charli Main says
and while he is here, he will probably demand that more stringent action is taken against Islamophobes, all restrictions on Muslim immigration into Europe be lifted and Muslim benefit cheques doubled.
Michael Copeland says
A previous Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, already gave the “true facts” about Islam:
“Muslims must kill non-muslims wherever they are unless they convert to Islam.”
gravenimage says
Thanks for the horrible reminder, Michael.
Kasey says
No wonder he won’t meet many Muslims, as he’s really condemning all the actions of Muhammed in his time, now being replicated by IS and its supporters. They are following the directive of Allah straight from the Koran. These need no interpretation…just application by all “true” Muslims. Some might even kill him as a apostate if they got a chance for not being a true Muslim [in their eyes].
Baucent says
Not much of a scholar our Mr Mufti if he can’t see Islam is not a “race” but a religion.
ruth says
The Bible says satan comes as an angel of light -mohammad….He brings another gospel-koran…It teaches another Jesus-Issa and another spirit-allah.. 2 Corinthians 11-3,4,14… Verse3 says this deception is the same deception as Eves deception….Islam by their evil actions are showing us exactly what original sin was and why humanity became like the devil…Genesis 3-2…They lie, steal, murder, rape molest children practice bestiality, practice polygamy. etc/ etc/ etc// Anyone who believes allah who condones these actions is god does not know god from satan..
mortimer says
The mufti’s whole tour is hinted at by the comment that Philadelphia bus ads are ‘racist’. Hmm.
REMARKABLE that the close collaboration of German master-race supremacists and Arab master-religion supremacists is not ‘racist’! VERY INTERESTING!
PUBLICIZING the racially motivated German-Arab collaboration is considered ‘racist’, while their collaboration in itself is not considered ‘racist’.
It isn’t racism when Muslims do it.
R_not says
Sounds like a supped up interfaith dialog with politicians. aaahhh, taqiyya dribble and placate the non-moslems so they continue to stick their heads up their butts instead of a fartwad to tell the violent jihadists to stop it. (it wouldn’t work for many because of the idea that it was issued to placate us – what the crapran says is to fight to get to Allah’s whorehouse in the sky and by golly that is what they are going to do!) islam is slippery and smarmy that way. Look to Mohamed – if he did it then it is a-ok.
Heather says
Christians know about Satan because it’s in the Bible. If you believe in the one true God and/or Jesus you believe in Satan.
My question is: Does the Islam book have any mention of Satan????
I’ve never heard of any experts analyseing it to mention Satan. If it doesn’t, is that because the Islam book is about Satan???