To Western leaders such as David Cameron, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Pope Francis, the U.S. Catholic bishops, and a host of others, it is patently obvious that the Qur’an teaches peace and that Islam is a religion of peace. So how did this Muslim preacher miss those peaceful teachings?
Here’s an idea: why doesn’t Barack Obama send Kerry to Nagpur to explain to young Muslims how the Islamic State is misunderstanding and misrepresenting Islam? Or maybe Pope Francis could go there, or he could send some Arabic-speaking Eastern Catholic bishop — say, one who knows that Islam is at its core a peaceful religion and who moves actively to silence and ostracize those who say otherwise — to the Islamic State, straight to Raqqa, to explain to the caliph how he is misunderstanding Islam. That would clear up this problem in a hurry. I volunteer to pay the bishop’s airfare.
“ATS nabs ‘maulana’ for spreading jihad,” by Soumittra S Bose and TO Abraham, Times of India, November 3, 2015:
Nagpur: A young religious preacher (maulana) Hafiz Mujibar Rehman alias Salim Malik, has been arrested from Mendhiya masjid of Pusad in Yavatmal district on Sunday in a joint operation by State Anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of Nanded and Akola. He was alleged involved in indoctrinating youths to join the ‘jihad’ or holy war through social media and sermons. He has been remanded to custody by a special court in Nagpur on Monday till November 12.
Sources from the intelligence wing said Maulana Rehman’s name had cropped up in the interrogation of Abdul Malik Abdul Razzaq, who had attacked three cops from State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) with a sharp weapon outside Mendhiya mosque on Eid-ul-Azha on September 25. He had also raised slogans against the government for banning beef.
Superintendent of police, ATS, rest of Maharashtra, Sunil Kolhe said such instigators are misleading youngsters to join antigovernment activities, jeopardizing their lives and any career. “Security agencies are working round the clock to track down such instigators and brainwashed youths bent on creating havoc in society,” he said.
ATS and other intelligence wings are now trying to find links between Malik and Shoaeb Khan, alias Pusad Shoaeb, and Shah Muddassir, who were arrested by Hyderabad police for their role in provoking youngsters to join jihadi culture as a holy practice in October last year. Khan and Muddassir, both from Maharashtra, had gone to meet a financier in Hyderabad, who was supposed to help them to cross over to Afghanistan to train under the al-Qaida.
Muddassir, who owned grocery shop at Umarkhed, was former member of Shaheen Force, which is the children wing of banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). After SIMI was banned, Mudassir joined a front organization. Shoaeb is learnt to be close to Mansoor Ali Peerbhoy, who was linked to Pune module of Indian Mujahideen (IM). Mudassir and Shoaeb were in close touch with a Pakistan-based group on social media and used to chat about jihad and triggering blasts in Maharashtra.
Shoaeb too was produced, along with Rehman, before the court. The court has extended Khan’s custody till November 5. Malik, a BSc student who is also enrolled in the computer stream of ITI, is learnt to have revealed that Rehman and Khan exposed him to the ‘jihadi’ videos and other instigating materials, leading him to embrace hardline view for religious purposes. Sources in ATS said that a lot of literature was found in the possession of Rehman and Malik along with some electronic evidence….

sidney penny says
Shoaeb too was produced, along with Rehman, before the court. The court has extended Khan’s custody till November 5. Malik, a BSc student who is also enrolled in the computer stream of ITI, is learnt to have revealed that Rehman and Khan exposed him to the ‘jihadi’ videos and other instigating materials, leading him to embrace hardline view for religious purposes. Sources in ATS said that a lot of literature was found in the possession of Rehman and Malik along with some electronic evidence….
Robert, you forgot to highlight.
Malik, a BSc student who is also enrolled in the computer stream of ITI,
Yes it is the poor,uneducated muslims who do this.
sidney penny says
India has always suffered from indoctrinating youths and others joining the ‘jihad’ or holy war.
Now it is worse because of social media and sermons live and on the internet.
Thing got so bad before that some Indian Hindus tried to ban the major source of incitement.
Worth reading the many many example given in paragraphs 4,5 and 6.
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tcqp/chi1.htm
1. The petitioners are the citizens of India and are engaged in various types of social work.
2. The Government has a public duty to forfeit every copy of a book, which
incites violence, disturbs public tranquility, promotes, on ground of religion, feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities and insults other religions or religious beliefs of other communities in India.
3. The Koran, also spelt as Quran, the so-called religious Book of the Muslims the world over.
4 The Book has verses which preached cruelty, incited violence and disturbed public tranquility e.g.
5 The Book promotes religious enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities in India.e.g.
6 The Book insults other religions or religious beliefs of other communities in India.e.g.
mortimer says
‘The Calcutta Quran Petition’ (book) is an interesting case of how the Indian government subverted its own legal system to stop the criticism of the Koran in the courts.
One chapter of the book is entitled, ‘Entire Quran is a Manual on Jihad’…which the Koran is…a manual and manifesto of jihad.
mortimer says
Indians have a chance to revisit the Petition of 1985 which had hoped to put the Koran on trial for preaching intolerance and violence against non-Muslims…especially against Hindus.
In the cited case above, the mullah Rehman “was allegedly involved in indoctrinating youths to join the ‘jihad’ or holy war through social media and sermons.”
Rehman’s preaching was straight from the Koran, it could be shown beyond a reasonable doubt. It is thus the Koran that should be tried, rather than Rehman, who was practicing authentic, canonical Islam in his Koran-based preaching.
The Koran is the source of all JIHAD PREACHING…especially the ninth chapter…which cannot be contradicted, since it is the final chapter of Allah’s final revelation.
sahani says
$ 1 book by Arab cause of millions of death ,destructions of many cities and villages , destruction of many cultures . Its tool to create enemy with in a family , a nation to destroy by using local converts a Book followers.
Angemon says
An electronic “clock”?
mortimer says
Robert Spencer issues a wonderful challenge for Western leaders “to explain to the caliph how he is misunderstanding Islam.”
Where are the ‘peaceful teachings’ in the Koran, hadiths and Sira as well as the canonical commentaries and Sharia law that contradict ISIS?
Stumped? Hint…they are all ABROGATED by the jihad verse of Koran 9.5.
The ninth and last chapter of the Koran is the only chapter that DOES NOT begin with a call to the MERCY of Allah…
The ninth chapter REMOVES MERCY from the Koran and brings WAR. This abrogation may not be abrogated…because the ‘Final Prophet’ Mohammed is now DEAD.
sidney penny says
oops yes abrogation!
http://www.inquiryintoislam.com/2010/06/what-is-abrogation-in-islam.html
According to the Qur’an, no one can change Allah’s words (6:115; 18:27). Yet Allah himself frequently changes his revelations by sending a verse that abrogates (or cancels) an earlier verse (2:106; 16:101).
Since the Qur’an is supposedly eternal, our Muslim friends have a problem. From all eternity, the Qur’an
The bad news for non-Muslims is that almost all the peaceful passages were written earlier, and the intolerant, hateful, and violent ones were written later (read more about this).
sidney penny says
http://sheikyermami.com/the-principle-of-abrogation-in-the-quran/
a longer and better summary
don vito says
OT, loved to have been a dentist at that photofest.
sencit says
I thought they were singing Christmas carols !!
Jeremiah says
The animosity by Muslims towards India was not well understood by Gandhi. Winston Churchill had a much better grasp. Moving Muslims to Pakistan didn’t work too well because that gave them a chance to persecute others in a more systematic manner while the Hindus had no such inclination in India. They allowed Islam to continue its growth. Now we are back to square one. Islam is more adaptive and more dangerous than anything the earth has seen. They have a single minded objective. Unfortunately we are too civilized to do anything about it this time. In WW2 we almost waited too long. This time, we will wait until it is too late.
mortimer says
“To Western leaders such as David Cameron, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Pope Francis, the U.S. Catholic bishops, and a host of others…” I have a question…
…what verse abrogates Koran 9.5 ???? Hmmmm…
“Fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them: seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war).” (Verse of the Sword: Ayat al-Sayf)
The fact of abrogation is that for every peaceful verse in the Koran, there are violent and intolerant verses which come chronologically later than the peaceful verses and therefore supersede and annul ALL the former peaceful verses.
About 100 ‘peaceful’ verses in the Koran are said by Islamic scholars to have been abrogated and annulled by the Verse of the Sword.
mortimer says
Do “Western leaders such as David Cameron, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Pope Francis, the U.S. Catholic bishops, and a host of others…”
…TRULY BELIEVE that the Verse of the Sword is not operative for ALL MUSLIMS?
How do they know that? By wishful thinking? By guessing?
Did any “Western leaders such as David Cameron, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Pope Francis, the U.S. Catholic bishops” look up any of their ideas in the Islamic source texts…ANY OF THEM?
medaber_emet says
Islam = deadly Virus
for the safety of the planet
we have to eradicate this disease
Jay Boo says
Cautionary advice to John McCain:
These Three Stooges are not singing Christmas carols.
Lookmann says
Spencer says ” I volunteer to pay the bishop’s airfare”
You’re generous, but you wont have to pay the return fare, I suppose.
Matthieu Baudin says
India would probably not have been able to branch out and develop in the remarkable way it has, if the Partition of the sub continent had not occurred, freeing up newly created India from the dead weight of Islamic fanaticism.
DP111 says
Indians are habitual dhimmis. Long practrice..
sahani says
Mullahs ,local Mullahs are local commanders for the islam and they should be watched and declared enemy o the nation.
sahani says
IF MULLAHS IN EACH NATION ARE REMOVED FROM EACH MASJIDHS AND MAKE ALL PRAYERS PERSONAL . NO MASS GATHERING ALLOWED . THE CRIME IN ISLAM WILL WIPE OUT.