A leading Syria-based Saudi cleric is blaming the rebel jihadis’ habit of taking “god’s name in vain” as a reason why they have failed to win the Syrian war.
Sheikh Abdullah al-Muhaysini “then posted instructions to his 57,500 followers on how to avoid insulting the divine, and launched an Arabic-language hashtag to promote his anti-blasphemy campaign.”
The cleric’s belief is absurd, but should come as no surprise. Blasphemy comes with a death sentence in Islam – in many countries codified in the civil law, and in Sharia is “divinely” imposed as a punishment from Allah, as al-Muhaysini maintains.
The Syrian opposition that America is backing is rather similar to the Islamic State. It’s convenient, however, to zero in on Islamic State militants, even arguing that they are an aberrant form of Islam, and have nothing to do with Islam. The Islamic State has provided shelter for other jihadists to hide behind, and an excuse for the politically correct to not identify this war as one in which religious zeal is the fuel.
All jihadists share the same goal, under the same umbrella of Islamic supremacism, but this goal can be and is cloaked in quite different ways by different groups. Jihadists are also guided by putative teachers of Islamic jurisprudence who base their teachings on antiquated — sometimes barbaric — texts that they regard as eternally relevant. They all share the same goal of territorial conquest and subjugation of anyone who does not hold their Salafi doctrine. This doctrine emphasizes a special contempt for blasphemers, gays and apostates, all of whom are to be punished by death.
“Saudi cleric blames Syrian rebel losses on ‘blasphemous’ swearing”, Alaraby.co.uk, October 24, 2016:
A leading jihadi cleric has said that Syrians’ habit of taking “god’s name in vain” when swearing is a reason that rebels have failed to win the Syrian war.
Sheikh Abdullah al-Muhaysini, a Syria-based Saudi cleric closely affiliated to al-Qaeda, took to Twitter on Friday to blame recent military setbacks on hot-tempered rebel soldiers using the word “God” when they swear on the battlefield.
“Six years of revolution and there are still some people who insult God when they become angry. Oh God, the words that come out their mouths are too distressing. If only you all knew that possibly this is the reason that our victory has been delayed,” Muhaysini tweeted.
He then posted instructions to his 57,500 followers on how to avoid insulting the divine, and launched an Arabic-language hashtag to promote his anti-blasphemy campaign.
“I am not exaggerating when I say that this is one of the most serious issues that has befallen the people of Syria and has been the reason their enemies have defeated them,” he said.
“Some people may wonder is it possible for a Muslim to insult God? We say: unfortunately,
this has become commonplace among some fools and sin-doers affiliated with Muslims!”“The regime has popularised trivialising the gravity of this heinous crime.”
In the Syrian dialect of Arabic, the insults translated as “curse God”, “curse your Lord” and “curse your religion” are in common usage.
Muhaysini is highly-revered in jihadi circles, and travelled to Syria in 2013 to join the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
He has positioned himself in the heart of radical jihadist politics, fundraising, and legal opinion and currently holds the title of the General Judge of Jaish al-Fatah.
Since Russia intervened in the conflict in support of Assad in September last year, opposition groups have lost much ground against the regime….

Stephanie says
killer, ‘… kill them wherever ye find them’ http://quran.com/4/89
Angemon says
Indeed.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
In her introduction to the Alaraby.co.uk article, Christine Williams writes, “Jihadists are also guided by putative teachers of Islamic jurisprudence who base their teachings on antiquated — sometimes barbaric — texts that they regard as eternally relevant.”
What are these texts (titles, please), and what makes them antiquated and sometimes barbaric? And who are these putative teachers (names, please), and why are they not real teachers of Islamic jurisprudence and but only putative (supposed to be) teachers? Can you cite an example of how one of these teachers gets Islamic jurisprudence wrong?
David says
Who is this hairy faced IMBECILE? He looks like an escapee from The Asylum for the Criminaly INSANE !
Sure hope the nets drop! And they get him back into a padded cell, before he hurts anyone.
Charli Main says
He is your bog standard Muslim lunatic. The kind of lunatic that believes that a mass murdering, child raping, sex slave owning, liar, thief, necrophile, cross dressing homosexual, that was friends with a talking donkey and flew to heaven on a winged horse is the most perfect man that ever lived.
They are ALL xxxxxxx lunatics.
frank day says
““Six years of revolution and there are still some people who insult God when they become angry. Oh God, the words that come out their mouths are too distressing. If only you all knew that possibly this is the reason that our victory has been delayed,” Muhaysini tweeted.”
Muslims have no sense of irony. That’s why they’re so unhappy.
Louis says
They “muslims” have an IQ of a MUSHROOM.
Westman says
Allah and the Mahdi aren’t coming to save the “rebels” because they don’t exist. Joining the priests of Baal in a lunatic dance of praise, or self-flagellating for Hazrat Imam Hussain like Shias, won’t make any difference. Islam is a house so divided and caught up in paranoid delusions, which are daily challenged by reality, that it is unfit for the future of humanity.
The Muslim on Muslim violence and inter-sect rejection, by the most fervent of believers, is enough to know that the fruits of Allah are neither love or stability. In the end it won’t matter who wins or survives in Syria. The country is simply caught in the middle of those who can accept the decline of Islamic influence and those who cannot. When Islamists lose power through liberalization there is violence, revolution, and war brewing.
This Saudi cleric should live long enough to see how little attention will be paid by Allah as the oil revenue declines and the non-productive reality of Islam sets the country into decline. No more free stuff. There will be many recriminations, like this charge of “god’s name in vain”, which will simply foment unrest; leading to violence and the likely overthrow of the Saud Family.
The day of Islam’s success as a physically conquering parasite of productive nations has been over since WWI. The West is too organized and defensively cooperative. The new threat to the West is subsidizing Islam through welfare and other wealth-transfer programs without realizing it is saving a supremist culture from its own failure. The West has become a willing host for a parasitic ideology that is programmed to destroy it.
denis says
Did anyone notice he was a SYRIAN BASED “SAUDI” CLERIC. Saudi Arabia, where Islam took root, where the most evil form of islam is preached called Wahabbism, where this, the (SA) pretend ally of America is financing most of the terrorist organizations world wide and ISIS because it is a Sunni organization, To control the HATE of ISIS, America has to tell the Sauds, to stop supporting terror or America will leave the area and let Iran and Saudi Arabia go to war with each other. War between these two nations would happen if America left the area,