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Islamic State gives out $10,000 prizes in Qur’an contest

Feb 24, 2016 10:35 am By Robert Spencer

The Islamic State, which everyone in authority in the Western world knows has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, just gave out three $10,000 prizes to the winners of a Qur’an contest. One wonders if John Kerry will care to explain just how this entity that gives cash awards to those who memorize the Qur’an actually has nothing to do with its teachings.

“VIDEO: Islamic State Gives $10K to Winner of Caliphate’s First Quran Contest,” by Ali Waked, Breitbart, February 20, 2016:

The Islamic State’s outreach commission organized a Quran contest this week, encompassing the territory under the group’s control in Iraq, the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency reported.

The “first Dar al-Islam” contest was divided into levels, and started with regional qualifiers participated in by hundreds of people each. The three top performers in each qualifier reached the national finals, which were held in the IS stronghold of Mosul.

The winner of each level won a prize of $10,000, while the others received consolation prizes of $1,000 each.

The organizers of the contest said that it was held under the patronage of the “Emir of the Faithful, the Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.”

The big winner was a blind man from the Nineveh region, who knew the entire Quran by heart “without a single mistake.”

A video was later posted by IS showing the contestants in a conference room of one of the city’s hotels….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 10:53 am

    John Kerry’s entry into the contest served as a comedic relief to all attending the event and he received a dubious award for the most wrong answers by a pandering Westerner.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 24, 2016 at 12:41 pm

      If John Kerry read the Koran SEVEN TIMES he would start to get into the minds of the jihadists.

  2. Shane Webster says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 11:00 am

    now IS has the real leader to guide them in case something happens to Abu Bakar as well as a scholar to conduct complicated medical surgeries aLLAH SHE is truly all knowing all wise may muhamMad be pleased as Ishtar is…I meant aLLAH sorry typo error

  3. Angemon says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 11:10 am

    The organizers of the contest said that it was held under the patronage of the “Emir of the Faithful, the Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.”

    Let me guess: Caliph Ibrahim did not compete to give everyone else a chance, right?

  4. Ralph Statum says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 12:37 pm

    Jihadist gets run over by ex-girlfriend

    https://gfycat.com/FaroffCraftyHare

    • billybob says

      Feb 24, 2016 at 8:05 pm

      Wow – he really went flying! She must have been really upset with him. Probably discovered he gave her syphilis.

  5. Adrian says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 1:56 pm

    How about a contest to recite just the peaceful and loving verses in the Quran?

    … don’t blink, or u will miss each contestant

  6. isntlam says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    It’s a contest to see who can brainwash himself the most thoroughly.

  7. mortimer says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 3:32 pm

    I can see Obama getting dewy-eyed about all those children learning the peaceful teachings of Islam from the Koran…including the fact that the Golden Rule is nowhere found in the Koran.

  8. mortimer says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 3:40 pm

    Those who have not studied the Koran do not fully comprehend that is a troop motivator, motivating them to do evil in the name of Allah and by his eternal, sadistic command.

    Islam is an excuse to hurt people.

    Many Muslims have rejected Islam upon reading the Koran in a modern translation.

    • Darryl Kerney says

      Feb 24, 2016 at 8:16 pm

      “Islam is an excuse to hurt people.”
      the actions of its devout follows prove it,
      if only they would all reject it and stopping effing things up for everyone…..

  9. Bernadet says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 5:44 pm

    This is tawid – I think. There was an excellent documentary about this and how people (many children) memorize the Koran from all over the Islamic world, then converge in Saudi Arabia for an annual contest.

    “By Heart: A Documentary on the Holy Qu’ran” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5DqElTUnH4

  10. shoehorn says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 7:37 pm

    ‘One wonders if John Kerry will care to explain just how this entity that gives cash awards to those who memorize the Qur’an actually has nothing to do with its teachings.’
    Easy. JK will tell us the Qur’an has nothing to do with Islam.

    • Darryl Kerney says

      Feb 24, 2016 at 8:26 pm

      shoehorn, that’s a good one,
      sadly the people that believe the previous lie will swallow the next one too,
      if one did try to say “the quran has nothing to do with islam” it wouldn’t be any more
      incorrect than saying “isis isn’t islamic”,
      and i’m sure you know it’s really just the same lie repackaged,
      but if Kerry does say that, i bet a lot of idiots will be repeating it like it’s been scientifically proven….

  11. Nimrod says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    Not giving away sex slaves this time? Well, that’s a rip off…. No point in entering that contest. Maybe they’re running a little low on spare sex slaves these days.

    Though I guess with the money it shouldn’t be too hard to pick up a good deal on a used one maybe. Prices may have gone up after a large number of honor killing and suicides.

  12. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    How long does it take a hafiz to recite the Quran from memory? Each regional qualifier (12 of them, let’s say) included “hundreds” of contestants, so there must have been at least 2,400 contestants. Going to the original report by clicking on the red-highlighted “winner” above and hitting “Translate”, you get English that is mostly incoherent, but that is artistically right-justified, Arabic-style. Think of the man-hours (and woman-hours) that were devoted to this effort. The ummah would be better served if all this manpower (and womanpower) were devoted to something more scientific, like the numerology of the number of stars in
    https://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2015/04/cf-logo-big-800×500.png

  13. Georg says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    That looks fun.

  14. gravenimage says

    Feb 24, 2016 at 11:48 pm

    Islamic State gives out $10,000 prizes in Qur’an contest
    ……………………

    And boy were they embarrassed when Robert Spencer won!

    • DFD says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 1:44 pm

      gravenimage says: “…And boy were they embarrassed when Robert Spencer won!”

      BRAVO!

      Bloody hell! Why didn’t I think of that?

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 25, 2016 at 10:57 pm

        Hah!

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