“Some of the participants who spoke on the programme, described it as a welcome development that would assist in handling extremist and propagation of the peaceful nature of Islam. They pointed out that Prophet Muhammad cherished peaceful coexistence among and between Muslims and non-muslims and viewed non-Muslims as people who should be attracted to Islam instead of being terrorized.”
This is not going to work. Why? Because the “peaceful nature of Islam” is not all that…peaceful.
“The peaceful nature of Islam”: See here.
“Prophet Muhammad cherished peaceful coexistence among and between Muslims and non-muslims”: A hadith has Muhammad saying, “I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim.” (Sahih Muslim 19.4366) And Qur’an 9:29 says: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”
“Prophet Muhammad…viewed non-Muslims as people who should be attracted to Islam instead of being terrorized”: Qur’an 8:60: “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror thereby into the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.”
“BOKO HARAM: 200 Islamic clerics on counter-radicalization training in N-East,” by Umar Yusuf, Vanguard, November 14, 2016:
No fewer than 200 Islamic clerics, comprising local Almajiri teachers from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, have commenced training on how to counter radicalization message of the followers of the dreaded sect.
The training with the theme: De-Radicalization, counter Terrorism and migration in Northern Nigerian, is put together by the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, and sponsored by the Japanese government.
Speaking to newsmen at the training for some of the clerics in Adamawa weekend, the Project Coordinator, Mr Ikponmwosa Omoigiade, said the training, which is part of a bigger project on de-radicalization, counter-terrorism and migration in Northern Nigeria, had already been conducted for some of the clerics in Borno and Yobe states.
He said the clerics, who comprised imams, scholars and proprietors of Almajiri schools, were trained on how to identify and contain Boko Haram ideologies and extremism in their areas with the aid of manuals by clerics from Islamic Da’awah Centre and Arabic teachers from Ahmadu Bello University.
The coordinator lauded the commitment shown by the clerics, adding that the centre would do an assessment on the impact of the project in the affected states. Some of the participants who spoke on the programme, described it as a welcome development that would assist in handling extremist and propagation of the peaceful nature of Islam. They pointed out that Prophet Muhammad cherished peaceful coexistence among and between Muslims and non-muslims and viewed non-Muslims as people who should be attracted to Islam instead of being terrorized.

Angemon says
How long until they’re murdered as heretics by their more pious coreligionists?
American Pragmatism says
They already have targets on them I am sure.
Mubarak says
People who look in the mirror of Islam in order to find the peaceful nature of its content will inevitably be faced with Mr. Hyde and ultimately be transformed into his likeness.
Shmooviyet says
Look at the face of the little boy in blue; to think of what the future will bring to him… very saddening.
linnte says
That was exactly my first thought! How sad for the children!!
RL Robison says
I look at the face of that beautiful little boy and am saddened by the knowledge of how his innocence will be twisted, betrayed and finally destroyed.
gravenimage says
Which is just what champion of Muslim rape Mubarak likes.
He has said that Westerners *deserve* to be raped by his coreligionists because we are so “decadent”–perhaps he can tell us why the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls deserved to be abducted and raped?
Shmooviyet says
That last line is a doozy!
‘Prophet Mo cherished peaceful coexistence among all.’
Guess we no longer need to read JW– ‘cuz now we know the truth.
Jay Boo says
The answer to the following questions is amazingly simple.
Why must Muslims be so viciously against non-Muslims?
Why do Muslims feel a need to pray 5 times a day?
The answer is very obvious.
Islam’s pedophile sex slaver pimp was no prophet.
Not even close.
Muhammad was such an evil buffoon that Muslims must compensate for his disgrace rather than admit that they are fools and Islam is merely a crude and cruel JOKE begun by a 72 virgin rapist buffoon.
gravenimage says
Yes–this line was especially ludicrous.
American Pragmatism says
The fact is Muslims need to usher in a reformation; Sharia stance against gays, women, other religions, is unacceptable.
Jack Diamond says
The shari’a is just the codification of what is contained in the Qur’an and Sunnah. Many Muslims believe they’ve had their reformation, or restoration, already. It’s just not the one you have in mind. Muslims need mass apostasy. The unacceptable nature of shari’a needs to be imposed by non-Muslims upon them, first. Not tolerated and not accepted in what they kindly call dar al-harb.
“Prophet Muhammad cherished peaceful coexistence among and between Muslims and non-muslims and viewed non-Muslims as people who should be attracted to Islam instead of being terrorized.”
He only called for “peace” as a tactic of war, like his “peace” with the Jews of Yathrib or the Meccans prior to their conquest, and he only promised safety for non-Muslims if they converted to Islam (under threat) or prostrated themselves before the Muslims, or else they faced “the sword without mercy.” Double-talking Imams. Nothing new under the sun.
What exactly are Boko Haram “ideologies” and how do they differ from orthodox Islamic understanding? Don’t ask….nice of the Japanese to come and finally solve the problem of “radicalization.” Peace should be breaking out any day now.
eduardo odraude says
To American Pragmatism:
Reformation in Christianity meant a return to the Bible, and a rejection of Church intermediaries and all the overlay of interpretation and misinterpretation by those intermediaries. There has already been an Islamic reformation — a return to the core texts of Islam — it’s called Wahabism and it rules Saudi Arabia.
gravenimage says
Islam can not be reformed–not in the way we mean it.
Islam *did* go through a reformation of sorts about 200 years ago–and it brought us the Wahabbis.
American Pragmatism says
Interesting views. I took the Reformation as highlighting Lord Jesus finished work on the cross thus being propitation for all sin forever John 3:16.
gravenimage says
As Eduardo notes, a reformation is usually a return to the original texts–and with Islam, that means becoming *more* fanatical.
Michael Laudahn says
Islam – the most missunderstood religion on earth?
Charli Main says
It very unlike the Japanese to pour good money down the shyte hole because that is exactly what they are doing by funding the propagation of ” the peaceful nature of Islam ”
There is no kumbaya version of the Koran.
Jay Boo says
$$$
American Foreign Aid to Muslim leader.
I wonder if this is merely a cynical ploy to milk the dhimmi Obama Administration for as much as possible before Trump gets in.
JawsV says
Islam is not peaceful. Period.
Jay Boo says
“Islam is not peaceful”
John Hagee agrees.
Even an atheist could appreciate some of the things conservative Pastor John Hagee says about Islam. While Pastor Rick Warren and Pope Francis in contrast, try to appease …. Hagee confronts the disease.
JIMJFOX says
Atheism Is the answer, Jay boo. AND don’t bother ranting on on about Stalin,Hitler, Mao or all the other psycho-bastards you use an an excuse for religion. Plenty of psychopath religiots, too.
eduardo odraude says
JIMJFOX,
If you admit that there are plenty of atheist mass murderers as well as religious ones, why do you proclaim, as if it were indisputable, that “atheism is the answer”?
Atheism is metaphysics every bit as much as Buddhism or Christianity. What makes your metaphysics so indisputably superior to others’? I’ll tell you. Nothing.
In fact, it is arguably inferior. I won’t say indisputably so, because obviously the matter is disputable. Which calls for humility from all of us, to balance out the confidence we feel in our own grasp of the cosmos.
Peter Berger, in The Heretical Imperative described that paradoxical blend of humility and confidence as “mellow certainty.” (Berger is a Protestant).
American Pragmatism says
Grace is the answer to overly oppressive sharia law.
Jay Boo says
Hillary Clinton might agree with that approach for other reasons.
She refused to even put Boko Haram on a Foreign Terrorist Organization list because supposedly “It might encourage the alleged heavy handed approach of anti terrorist government of then leader Goodluck Johnathan as opposed to (diplomacy) with the Koranimal follower’s of Muhammad’s example.”
Finally Boko Haram put on list 11/14/2013
— BTW
Hillary’s ‘Freedom Fighters’ who On September 11, 2012 killed : Ambassador Chris Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and two CIA operatives, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods
(Ansar al-Shari’a in Benghazi)
Not put on list until 1/13/2014
List at:
http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm
Rev. Dr. says
After all that makeup and lipstick, it’s still a pig.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
These clerics are Whistling In The Dark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFDlz9WwpVY
Jack Diamond says
Well, the sleight of hand is similar.
to be followed by one of our best “counter-insanity” training videos:
Love is Good For Anything That Ails You
https://youtu.be/vbw6TP7JxuQ
Paul Clark says
It appears Boko Haram active death warrants will likely be the outcome for these 200 Muslims.
Paul Clark says
To Jay Boo
John Hagee is to be admired and is a good source. Warren and the Pope straddle the fence with their religion and ideology. This has created a speculative “thin gap” in which to gauge them for my purposes of rationale. It could “B. S.” and it could be “stinky” because it is speculative. However there is no shame or fear. May God bless you. I like some of your responses.
Gene says
They have to be “trained” to preach the peaceful and tolerant nature of Islam? The fact that they have to be trained says a lot about the nature of Islam. This sounds like a “Techniques in Taqiyya: How to Lie to Infidels While Promoting Jihad” conference.
gravenimage says
Good point…
Cheyenne says
I’d like to point out that the Bible has a few inciteful verses itself. Abrahamic religions originated in a Wild West sort of environment, so it’s perfectly natural as warring tribes sought moral guidance that violence against “others” would play a part.
All religions are personal but organized factions just invite groupthink.
gravenimage says
Good grief–Jews and Christians are not kidnapping schoolgirls and mass slaughtering people. Witless false moral equivalence. And only Muslims and dhimmis refer to Islam as an “Abrahamic religion”.
Mo says
@ Cheyenne
“I’d like to point out that the Bible has a few inciteful verses itself.”
You’ve never read the Bible, so how can you know what it teaches on anything?
TheOldOligarch says
Good luck to them, but we Kuffar must prepare for the fact that all such efforts will fail.
eduardo odraude says
Muhammad affirms that those who do not follow him will be slaughtered
LINK: Page 222 (326 in the Arabic) of the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad:
eduardo odraude says
See also http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com
Westman says
“They pointed out that Prophet Muhammad cherished peaceful coexistence among and between Muslims and non-muslims and viewed non-Muslims as people who should be attracted to Islam..”
Unless someone can cite a Hadith or the Quran for this, it is complete modern heresay and BS.
Come on Islam, give us a quote from Muhammad or Allah about his love for infidels. And don’t try some charade like quoting a piece of Quran 5:32 and then omitting 5:33.
linnte says
A couple weeks back, I challenged a Muslim to show me where the Qur’an says Allah loves all people including kuffar, and where does it say ALL people are equal. He actually conceded! I was floored! Hahahahahah!
gravenimage says
Good for you, Linnte!
davej says
There will be no reformation or mass apostasy as long as the West refuses to denounce and criminalize Islam but instead insists on keeping up the deception of calling it the ROP. By applauding the “moderates” we are only enabling the base.
If the reality of Islam was confronted and exposed there would at least be a rationale for some to seize the opportunity, although a support system of safe houses would be necessary.
Without a wholesale rejection of Islamic ideology we will just see this continuing Kabuki theater of “deradicalization”. Islam is radical to the core and there is no way to separate it from it’s host.
EYESOPEN says
Spot-on “davej”. You hit the nail on the head.
No Fear says
If Islam is “peaceful” then why do they need this “training” ?
david says
Again and again……..more T A Q Q I Y A !!!!!!!
David says
Islam (AKA satanism)
From those nice folks who put
Sept. 11th in the history books!
And our fabulous Allies the Saudi’s,
Who funded it and protected all involved, both before and after the fact!
It is impossible to make islam into a “Religion of Peace”!
No matter how many times you say the words!
gravenimage says
Nigeria: 200 Muslim clerics training to counter Boko Haram ideology and propagate “peaceful nature of Islam”
………………….
Let’s try that again:
Nigeria: 200 Muslim clerics lying to Infidels to lull them into a false sense of security, and to convince them that Boko Haram ideology is not real Islam, and to fool them into believing there is a “peaceful nature of Islam”
Much more accurate!
linnte says
Exactly!
Mo says
What peaceful nature is that?
Oh, they mean “peaceful” when unbelievers and even other Muslims who are not interested in violence are dead? Yeah, that’s one way to look at it. Dead people are very quiet and peaceful.
Dacritic says
When the hell would they learn.
AnneCrockett says
The problem is that they are so locked into the “Islam is peace” story that they cannot produce a realistic and convincing argument. Far better to admit that the history of Islam is mixed and go from there.
The dogma of Islam is not mixed, but given the utter irrationality of the human animal, that does not matter.
solange silverman says
For me, this says it all; OSHO ON ISLAM
Here is OSHO’s take on it all after intense study of Islam and after being asked for its outstanding qualities. He said he had searched intently for them but regrettably only had this to report;
“Koran is not even third grade literature. You can see this man (Muhammad) seems to be not normal. In koran, there is nothing elevating. It is so full of rubbish. It is not a religious book at all. It has come out of a feverish mind and very mediocre. Muhammad’s life was just fighting, killing. On his sword, he has written, ‘My message is peace.”” ~ OSHO, a mystic, guru, spiritual teacher and religious scholar.
linnte says
I agree with Osho then. Qur’an is easy enough for a nine year old to read. It is not a MYSTERY! It is poorly written and boring as all get out. Not to mention repetitive. The words say what they say and imbibing them with mystical angelic power is where Islam has taken itself, deliberately, to make non Muslims who oppose Islam think that reading the Qur’an would be a difficult task.
gravenimage says
Spot on.