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Pamela Geller, Breitbart: What Qasim Rashid Doesn’t Want You to Know About Islam

May 27, 2015 1:44 pm By Robert Spencer

Qasim Rashid74Pamela Geller here calls Qasim Rashid a “one-man cottage industry of deception and hypocrisy,” and she’s right: previously Rashid has whitewashed Muhammad’s support for torture and the reality of jihad violence and Sharia oppression; dissembled about the Qur’an’s sanction of deception of unbelievers; lied about the presence of violent passages in the Qur’an; lied about the Qur’an’s sanction of beating disobedient women; lied about the nature of Sharia; and called for limitations on the freedom of speech and expression to outlaw behavior and speech some Muslims may find offensive. When challenged about the “facts” he has presented, he (like virtually all other Islamic supremacists) responds with furious ad hominem contempt, but no substance.

And here we go again.

“Opinion: What Qasim Rashid Doesn’t Want You to Know About Islam,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, May 27, 2015:

Ahmadi Muslim spokesman Qasim Rashid is a one-man cottage industry of deception and hypocrisy, churning out article after article purporting to prove that the Muslims who are killing, enslaving, and terrorizing people all over the world in the name of Islam are really misinterpreting their faith.

Rashid believes that his minuscule group  – the Ahmadiyya constitute no more than three percent of Muslims worldwide, if that, and is mercilessly persecuted as heretical in Pakistan and Indonesia – represent the true, benign, peaceful Islam.

Rashid’s latest deceptive piece in Salon is especially cynical. Not only does he claim that Islam is something other than what its most devout adherents claim it is every day, but instead of trying to show those devout Muslims where they’re wrong, he points the finger at those non-Muslims who have dared to tell the truths he’s trying so desperately to obscure.

Rashid claims – linking to his earlier exercises in deception – that Islam champions free speech and secular governance. Rashid is thus claiming that the overwhelming majority of Muslims worldwide, including the world’s foremost Muslim leaders, have no idea what their religion is all about. If Islam champions free speech, why has the 57-government Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the largest voting bloc at the United Nations, endeavored for years to compel the UN and Western governments to enact “hate speech” laws that would effectively criminalize criticism of Islam? Why has no Muslim government, and not even any Muslim cleric, denounced that endeavor?

If Islam is for free speech, then why, after the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre of Muhammad cartoonists, did we see protests in Pakistan, Iran, Chechnya, and other Muslim countries against the cartoonists, and not a single protest by Muslims anywhere in favor of the freedom of speech?

If Islam calls for secular governance, why were there no secular governments at all anywhere in majority-Muslim countries until the 20th century, and the foremost one, Turkey, is now rapidly re-Islamizing?

Rashid’s entire piece is full of distortions. He takes issue with Jeffrey Tayler’s characterization of Muhammad as a “triumphant warlord leading military campaigns that spread Islam throughout Arabia,” saying it’s “but one example of the numerous historical fantasies he writes.” Rashid is counting on his readers never hearing of Muhammad’s role in the Battle of Badr, the Battle of Uhud, the Battle of the Trench, the Battle of Tabuk, and many other battles. He knows most of his readers won’t know that Muhammad says in a hadith: “I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah” (Sahih Muslim 33).

Rashid calls me “internationally recognized hatemonger Pamela Geller.” Internationally recognized by whom? Islamist supremacists, Islamist apologists, and their leftist lapdogs.

I submit that the majority of the world, certainly the free world, supports my defense of freedom, as evidenced by the many awards and accolades I’ve received from numerous pro-freedom groups and organizations. I stand for the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, the equality of rights of all people before the law, and individual rights, and so to the enemies of all those principles, I’m a “hatemonger.”

Rashid’s hypocrisy is outrageous. He says in Salon that he supports the United States’ “proud free speech model” — but at a conference in 2013, he called for using cyber-bullying laws to limit speech and expression critical of Islam.

While Rashid dissembles in Salon, I am flanked by a team, a phalanx of security guards 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for the crime of telling the truth.

Rashid claims that “‘Christian’ terror groups like the Lord’s Resistance Army and CAR militias commit terrorism that is as bad or worse” than that which is committed by ISIS. Really? What nation-sized territory do these groups control? What threats have they issued to perpetrate terror attacks in the U.S. and Europe? Where are their sex slaves?

Qasim Rashid is a spokesman for the Ahmadis, who are all too frequently slaughtered by mainstream Muslims. Why is he carrying water for the very ideology that slaughters his own people?

Rashid anticipates my criticisms here when he writes:

Critics dismiss the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community by claiming we are a ‘minority’ or because extremist Muslims consider us heretical. These arguments are specious. I find it peculiar that such critics point to the roughly 30,000 members of ISIS and the past year as ‘proof’ Islam is violent, but ignore the tens of millions members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community living progressively in 206 nations for well over a century as ‘a minority’ that ‘doesn’t represent Islam.’

Tens of millions out of 1.5 billion: less than three percent. And his argument is specious in other ways as well. We don’t cite merely the members of ISIS as proof of the Islamist threat. No, we cite the thousands of jihad groups worldwide and the millions of Muslims who are waging holy war in the cause of Islam. And we note how they use Islamic texts and teachings to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims.

The Ahmadiyyas changed Islam, which mainstream Sunnis believe is something more egregious than blasphemy. The Ahmadis said that Muhammad was not the final prophet. The horror! Rashid calls me a hatemonger for holding an art exhibit, yet what he practices is the most reviled in a long line of prohibitions in Islam. So if I am a hatemonger, he is a loathsome, vile heretic and apostate. Maybe even an “Islamophobe.”

And ultimately, why is he talking to Jeffrey Tayler, Bill Maher, and me? Why isn’t he talking to the millions of Muslims who subscribe to the view that he is the one who is deviating from authentic Islam?

Why is Rashid taking it up with the targets, rather than with the targeters? Why is he taking it up with the victims? Why isn’t he going to the imams and the mosques that support ISIS and criticizing the Muslim publications that are pro-ISIS and pro-al-Qaeda?

We aren’t the problem. They can kill and kill and kill the victims, and attacking those same victims is still not going to solve the problems within Islam, unless everyone converts — and that’s what they want. Muslims have to solve their problems, and Qasim Rashid has to stop blaming the targets.

He’s part of the problem, not the solution. And shame on Salon for repeatedly running this kind of tripe without giving us a chance to respond.

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  1. USMAN says

    May 27, 2015 at 1:49 pm

    At the inception of Sharia Law in Zamfara State of Nigeria, A Fulani man was accused of stealing a cow. The local Sharia Court tried him and found him guilty. He was amputated and the freshly amputated hand was immersed in boiled oil. Later the Islamic clerics who handed down the judgement realized they made a mistake since the said stolen cow actually belonged to the amputee. They then called the amputee and compensated him with a bag of maize.
    So you see, Islam is barbaric and awkward and is only practiced by insane people parading themselves as devout Muslims.

    • Susan says

      May 27, 2015 at 8:15 pm

      Brilliant.

    • Raja says

      May 28, 2015 at 9:55 pm

      Thank you Usman for highlighting another injustice in the name of Islam….Regards,..

  2. Brian says

    May 27, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    There is an ongoing jihad against the West (Judeo-Christian) by Islam since it’s foundation by the mass murderer, slave owner, serial rapist and all round psychopath Muhammad.

    In Jihad, ANY and ALL methods can be used, including Taqyyia, Kitman and Hiyal. Obama uses jihad by pretending to be a Christian when in fact he is a closet Muslim and is secretly flying in hundreds of thousands of Muslims from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.. Islam apologists LIE about what is contained in the Koran/Qur’an and Hadiths to make it look good.

    This video in a nutshell shows the REAL evil Islam…

    • Celtic says

      May 28, 2015 at 5:52 am

      Well I have sincere doubts about this theory. Obama may come from a Muslim background, but he is a faggot and in a youtube interview with a supposed illuminati insider which was recorded back in 2007 the guy mentioned somwhere within the 2 hours 32 minutes interview, that the next president of the US probably will be the first black president, a 32nd degree free mason named Barack Obama.

      So Obama is a mason. And the true masonic “religion” has neither to do with christianity, nor with Islam or Judaism – even though so called “jewish” “muslim” and “christian” lodges do exist – this is only superficial.

      Islam actually is used to play a role in a plan to create a 3rd world war with the ultimate goal to create a global government and abolishing all religions except the religion which is considered to be the right one for the new age of the world.

  3. Jaladhi says

    May 27, 2015 at 2:01 pm

    >”Rashid claims – linking to his earlier exercises in deception – that Islam champions free speech and secular governance. “<

    If this is not lying then I don't know what lying is!! Maybe in the eyes of Muslims lies are truths and truths are lies as everything in Islam is upside down or exactly opposite of what the normal meaning is. That is how Rashid thinks when Mo/allah asks Muslims to kill all non-Muslims, he is actually telling them to love non-Muslims. Except for Rashid and his followers Muslims do what it actually means – killing is killing and not love!

    The liar thinks that we don't know anything about Quran, Muslims, Islam and Mo/allah. The whole cult is based on lies, superstition, threats, intimidation. If Muslims come to know the real truth about Islam and its founder the whole religion will fall apart. For that matter if non-Muslims really learn the truth about Islam their support for Muslims will disappear!!

  4. miriamrove says

    May 27, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    Of course it is lying!! Muslims are allowed to lie in order to advance their cause. M

    • tilda says

      May 28, 2015 at 2:52 am

      Which begs a question: What lies did Mohammed tell in order to advance his religion?

      That is the question that muslims really have to face.

      If Mohammed allowed lies to advance his religion then did he lie about speaking to Gabriel? Did he lie about the 72 virgins? Did he lie when he said killing is prescribed by Allah? Did he lie about a night flight to Jerusalem on a strange horse? Did he lie about the sun setting in a muddy pool?

      • qedlin says

        May 28, 2015 at 4:00 am

        Tilda, Mo’s lies are extensive, he made foolish claims and deceitful statements while alive, but much came later by arab muslim writers to cover his rear and to build him up into the false-prophet he now is. I suggest Rafat Amari’s book “Islam: In Lght of History.” In brief:

        There is no factual basis for any of the historical foundational beliefs in the Quran or the Hadith: Abraham and Ishmael did not found Mecca in the 21st century BC, the Kaabah was added to compete with the other kaabahs in the area that were eventually removed, Mo was not from Ishmael, rather from Ham through Cush and Yemenites, of the Quraish tribe, and on and on.

        The allah of islam came from the Arabian Star Family Worship cult. The local tribes occupying Arabia and the area that eventually became Mecca (first appearing in the 4th century AD) practiced this religion, replete with kabaahs and Hajj’s in major villages. Allah was the Thamud tribe moon god, eventually replaced by Athtar/venus, Ellat was his wife, the sun, and there were 2 daughters al-Uzza and Manat, which were 2 planets.

        The net is Allah is not the God of the Bible, the God of Abraham or any other Jewish patriach, ergo, Allah is Satanically inspired.

        • tilda says

          May 28, 2015 at 8:51 am

          quedlin — thanks for the book recommendation. Will see if I can find it locally.

      • raja says

        May 28, 2015 at 10:17 pm

        Tilda,

        A few centuries back the world, specifically Europe then had better knowledge about Mohd. as he was contemptuously called Mahound. This is found in Wikipedia: Mahound or Mahoun is a variant form of the name Muhammad, often found in Medieval and later European literature. The name has been used in the past by Christian writers to vilify Muhammad.[1] It was especially connected to the Christian belief that Muhammad was a god worshipped by Pagans, or that he was a demon who inspired a false religion.

        Now you have Leftists lapdogs(described elegantly by Robert) everywhere to support the religion of evil and hate.

        It seems the Europeans have gone cuckoo for their love of Leftists idiots US included to a great extent.

  5. Angemon says

    May 27, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    Not only does he claim that Islam is something other than what its most devout adherents claim it is every day, but instead of trying to show those devout Muslims where they’re wrong, he points the finger at those non-Muslims who have dared to tell the truths he’s trying so desperately to obscure.

    So he’s the poster-child of islamic spokespersons in the West, then.

  6. mortimer says

    May 27, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    Ahmadi Muslims normally begin their disinformation by lying about who they are. They are heretical Muslims, considered worthy of death by orthodox Sunnis. Ahmadis conveniently hide that almost every time. They especially trick journalists who need a quote to ‘BALANCE’ their stories…but the Ahmadis aren’t orthodox Muslims, so their non-jihadist Islam is a fraud.

    It would be so boring to start with every speech with: “Y’know, we Ahmadis aren’t real Muslims, though we say we are. The other 97% of Muslims are all wrong. We the 3% are correct.”

    Journalists, beware. When you talk to Ahmadis, they will lie to you.

    • Porkistan says

      May 27, 2015 at 4:20 pm

      The Ahmadis lie about a lot of things. I’ve seen opinion polls in Ahmadi communities and they overwhelmingly support EVERYTHING violent in islam EXCEPT direct warfare jihad. By large majorities they agree with the death penalty for blasphemy or insulting Mohammed. They also support taking over non-muslim societies from within through immigration and high birth rates.

      They are the epitome of stealth jihad.

    • RonaldB says

      May 28, 2015 at 1:22 am

      Mortimer and Porkistan are right on the money. Amadiyyas are Muslims who follow and revere a prophet figure who came after Muhammad, and so are considered heretics by Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. Of course, the Shi’ites revere historical associates of Muhammad a bit too much, and so are considered heretics by the Sunnis.

      But, the Amadiyyas are lapdog Muslims who pant after the approval of real Muslims by shouting their devotion to Muhammad and the Koran. And yes, the Amadiyyas are a stealth force for Dawa, adding their (small) political support to suppression of any attempt by the US to defend itself against Muslim subversion through stealth jihad.

      By the way, here is an example of the moderation and tolerance shown by the Amadiyyas on the occasion of the creation of Israel by uppity Jews who had the nerve to settle on Muslim land and create their own government:

      “In this context it is worthy of note that the first voice raised against the establishment of Israel was the voice of the Ahmadiyya Community…
      We have received a tract which comprises an address of Al-Syed Mirza Mahmud Ahmad Sahib [Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement, 1947] which he delivered in Lahore. In this address he has urged the Muslims to unite and has drawn attention to the need of solid and effective efforts towards rescuing Palestine from the grip of Zionist criminals and has asked the people of Pakistan to render immediate help to the Palestine Arabs. Reminding the Muslims of their common allegiance to the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and arguing from verses of the Holy Quran the speaker has urged them to organize themselves to with-stand the onsets of the Zionist criminals who are being supported by the United States and Communist Russia in pursuance of their interests and special purposes. He has asked the Muslims not to display weakness or distress, but to keep in mind their obligations of Jihad for the upholding of Islam and Muslims.”

      https://www.alislam.org/books/truth/israel.html

  7. Dyann says

    May 27, 2015 at 3:29 pm

    As always, Pamela has captivated my attention to the end of her article with her unique (and most truthful) depiction of Islam that I have ever read. I just can’t for the life of me understand how liberal, no-information voters can continue to keep their heads in the sand (pun intended).

  8. TH says

    May 27, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    It’s takiyha, stupid, part of islamic duaistic ethics. What’s good for the goos is not necessarily good for the gander.

  9. qedlin says

    May 27, 2015 at 7:50 pm

    Rashid may be one one of the devious taqiyya-soaked jihadi “good muslims” or just one of the useful idiot “bad muslims” that distract the kafirs, but will be treated no differently once the “good muslims” get a hold of him and the rest of the infidels.

  10. Lucretius says

    May 27, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    What a beautiful slap-down! Every word was golden and spot on. Really enjoyed it.

  11. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 28, 2015 at 2:55 am

    Islam’s Muslims really DO NOT want the World knowing ANYTHING concerning the TRUTH about the REAL Islam – they would prefer the World to accept Islam’s “Grand Deception”, Taqiyya and Kitman Lies, AND if that doesn’t work, then Territorial Acquisition with Forced Kafir Slavery, and if that doesn’t work – THEN Bloody “DEATH to the Infidel” by Jihad.

  12. Argumentum says

    May 28, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    I agree with this article, but the Ahmadis are one of the few muslim groups that might see the light and join the counter-jihad. Ahmadi is basically a different religion than Islam, and actually is generally peaceful.

    We should be networking in the larger Ahmadi community and making sure that those who represent them on TV are those amongst them who oppose Jihad, Shariah and the Caliphate.

    • Angemon says

      May 28, 2015 at 7:16 pm

      Argumentum posted:

      “I agree with this article, but the Ahmadis are one of the few muslim groups that might see the light and join the counter-jihad. Ahmadi is basically a different religion than Islam, and actually is generally peaceful.”

      The ahamadi sect believes in pretty much the same as orthodox islam when it comes to the imposition of sharia and what that implies for women and non-muslims. They just prefer to do so through peaceful means.

  13. Randy Smith says

    May 29, 2015 at 1:34 am

    Not all muslims are evil but Islam is straight up all evil. The not evil muslims will become evil when cornered by the outright evil followers of satan’s islam, it is the choice most of them make, as most have never known the holy spirit, but do have an intimate knowledge of the evil truth about islam.
    Any who doubt the evil of islam should seek the truth, googling the 12th imam is a good place to start. It is only safe to treat all muslims as the enemy, as they view all others as their enemy that their quran commands them to engage.
    Israel is perceived as being overly violent and aggressive at times, but the truth is Israel knows without any doubts what they are dealing with, and many in the west, especially the young, haven’t a clue as to what evil is capable of, being they have grown up in a more privileged and sheltered world.

    • Raja says

      May 29, 2015 at 8:44 pm

      Randy,

      Your comment is very insightful just as the site is. Thank you so much.Wish this kind of comment goes viral….

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