Belgian authorities can admit that imams may be involved in jihad terror recruiting. American authorities cannot, for that would be to acknowledge that Islamic jihad has something to do with Islam, which is a principle that the Obama Administration is determined to deny.
“Belgium eager to expel 4 more imams,” Flanders News, July 15, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Belgian authorities are monitoring the activities of four imams, who they believe are encouraging young people to become extremists. The four risk being expelled from the country as has just happened with an imam from Verviers.
Belgian Asylum Secretary Theo Francken has told lawmakers that he would like the imams to be expelled. The Asylum Secretary informed MPs that the residence permit of an imam holding joint Moroccan Dutch nationality from Dison has been revoked. The imam was active in radical circles in the Verviers area, the scene of the killing of two Muslim extremist terrorist suspects last January.
The Immigration Department is examining the papers of four other imams suspected of preaching radicalism. They include two Moroccans, an Algerian and an Afghan.
Mr Francken defended the measures he had taken to screen radical imams and jihadi fighters returning from Syria. Some measures are being taken against people who have not been convicted of committing any offence: “All western countries have such a system. I believe it’s absolutely necessary and I wonder why it hasn’t happened before.”
The imam, who’s lost his residence permit, can appeal, but his appeal will not prevent his expulsion. Once he has officially been informed he has 30 days in which to leave the country. He will not be able to enter Belgium for ten years. The imam stands accused of propagating a Salafist agenda and glorifying armed jihadism and terrorist atrocities. One of his heroes includes, Mohammed Merah, the Algerian, who killed three children and an adult at a Jewish school in Toulouse (France) in 2012.
Georg says
Well, it’s about time. If you cherish the memory of Mohammad Merah you can leave — permanently. Enough of us taking all this lying down. We have every right, and in fact a duty, to protect ourselves, our children, and our civilization which is the envy of the World.
Angemon says
Only 4? They’re probably not looking hard enough…
“ The imam stands accused of propagating a Salafist agenda”
Ah, this is interesting. Salafis proud themselves of following islam as closely as possible to what muhammad and the “rightly guided” caliphs practiced. I wonder if this could set a precedent?
Georg says
Sal·a·fi
/səˈläfē/
noun: Salafi; plural noun: Salafis
a member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect advocating a return to the early Islam of the Koran and Sunna.
The Last English Prince says
Salaf (or as-Salaf as-Saalih) has a literal meaning of “predecessors”. In this context, it is the first three generations of Muslims: Muhammad and his Companions, their successors, and the students of the successors. A complimentary term? Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah.
Jack Diamond says
Because Muhammad said they were the best of Muslims, much better than what came after them.
‘A’isha reported that a person asked Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as to who amongst the people were the best. He said: Of the generation to which I belong, then of the second generation (generation adjacent to my generation), then of the third generation (generation adjacent to the second generation). (Sahih Muslim, Book 031, Number 6159).
On the authority of Abu Najih Al-Erbadh bin Sariah, who said:
The messenger of Allah gave us a sermon by which our hearts were filled with fear and tears came to our eyes. We said: “O Messenger of Allah, it is as though this is a farewell sermon, so counsel us.” He said: “I counsel you to fear Allah and to give absolute obedience even if a slave becomes your leader. Verily he among you who lives [long] will see great controversy, so you must keep to my sunnah and to the sunnah of the rightly-guided Khalifahs – cling to them stubbornly. Beware of newly invented matters, for every invented matter is an innovation and every innovation is a going astray, and every going astray is in Hell-fire.”
Related by Abu Dawud and Al-Tirmidhi, who said that it was a fine and true Hadith. (Al-Nawawi’s Forty Hadith, Number 28.
Muhammad orders Muslims to imitate the rightly guided Caliphs and the best of Muslims and beware of the innovation that would come after. It’s not a matter of choice, this “salafist” agenda. Like coke, it’s the real thing.
Huck Folder says
“Beware of newly invented matters, for every invented matter is an innovation and every innovation is a going astray, and every going astray is in Hell-fire.”
So, no guns, IEDs, cell-phones, modern medicine…
Cognitive dissonance?
Anyone?
mortimer says
NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM…except this from the Sharia law manual “The Reliance of the Traveller”:
Chapter O9.0: Jihad
O: Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the religion.
The scriptural basis for jihad, prior to scholarly consensus (def: b7) is such Koranic verses as:
-1- “Fighting is prescribed for you” (Koran 2:216);
-2- “Slay them wherever you find them” (Koran 4:89);
-3- “Fight the idolators utterly” (Koran 9:36);
O9.1: The Obligatory Character of Jihad
Jihad is a communal obligation (def: c3.2). When enough people perform it to successfully accomplish it, it is no longer obligatory upon others (O: the evidence for which is the Prophet’s saying (Allah bless him and give him peace),
-“He who provides the equipment for a soldier in jihad has himself performed jihad,”
-“Jihad is a communal obligation,” meaning upon the Muslims each year.
O9.8: The Objectives of Jihad
The caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (N: provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya, def: o11.4)