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Islamic State: “To celebrate New Year’s Eve with the kuffar is to embrace their idolatry”

Jan 3, 2017 8:37 am By Robert Spencer

You must observe the Islamic State’s idea of morality, or they will kill you, which they consider to be a moral act.

The Islamic State statement quotes the Qur’an: “O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliya’ (friends, protectors, helpers), they are but Auliya’ of each other. And if any amongst you takes them (as Auliya’), then surely he is one of them. Verily, Allah guides not those people who are the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers and unjust)” (5:51)

Not that this has anything to do with Islam!

“Celebrating New Years amounts to practising idolatry says Islamic State,” by Vicky Nanjappa, OneIndia.com, January 1, 2017:

To celebrate New Year is practising idolatry, the Islamic State has said.

While warning Muslims against celebrating New Years the IS has said that it amounts to practising idolatry with the infidels.

In a statement released on pro IS English channels, the IS says, “to celebrate New Year’s Eve with the kuffar is to embrace their idolatry and paganism and to shun the rulings of our Lord.”

Allah says: “O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliya’ (friends, protectors, helpers), they are but Auliya’ of each other. And if any amongst you takes them (as Auliya’), then surely he is one of them. Verily, Allah guides not those people who are the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers and unjust)” (Al-Maidah 51). There is nothing to celebrate. The Gregorian calendar is rooted in kufr and blatantly ignores the lunar calendar and that introduced to follow the Hijrah of our honorable Prophet (SAWS). We also do not celebrate the start of a new year. Rather, we consider sacred the month of sacrifice and the ‘Eids, which are also times to consider our Muslim brothers and ourselves.If a Muslim finds himself amid such a celebration, the kuffar commit all kinds of sin – imbibing of alcohol, fornication, and debauchery – that must be avoided.

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  1. Keith Gilbert says

    Jan 3, 2017 at 9:00 am

    I must tell you the truth here; ‘I have never met a dead muslim that I didn’t like” and it is my desire that they all be met in such fashion.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 3, 2017 at 10:53 am

      WRONG! Ex-Muslims are the best equipped to fight intolerant, supremacist Islam. We must urgently DEPROGRAM Muslims right out of Islam. This is doable.

      You must stop making intolerant remarks. They are amoral. WE ARE MORAL AND DEFEND CIVILIZATION. Don’t forget that.

      • don vito says

        Jan 3, 2017 at 6:54 pm

        dead moslem = good moslem
        exmoslem = good moslem

      • Achmed says

        Jan 3, 2017 at 7:17 pm

        Good grief. The SJW snowflakes have really been out in force.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 3, 2017 at 7:59 pm

        Mortimer, you have been flogging the idea of deprogramming Muslims for years now. You have never once said how this would be done, or why Muslims would listen to “filthy Infidels”.

        You also praised the French for trying this–while ignoring the fact that they have admitted that this program has been a failure:

        “France admits its ‘deradicalization’ program for jihadis has been a failure”

        https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/10/france-admits-its-deradicalization-program-for-jihadis-has-been-a-failure

  2. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jan 3, 2017 at 9:05 am

    Idolatry? Tough words, fighting words. So if we’re mere idolators, then what is the sublime stuff that the Moslems are so high and mighty about. A religion’s heaven goes a long way to defining a faith, but oh wait Jannat is a porno heaven. Enough said.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 3, 2017 at 10:56 am

      APF wrote: “Idolatry”.

      This is LIFESTYLE JIHAD … it’s an all-out war against Christians and secularists in Western countries. They will both be targeted.

      Atheists and agnostics are ALSO targeted. They had better join forces with the jihadists and stop supporting the jihad by placing Islam above criticism.

  3. Shmooviyet says

    Jan 3, 2017 at 10:30 am

    Take not the Jews and Christians as friends–
    for they might make you question me,
    And i am a very insecure thin-skinned prophit
    who won’t stand up to much scrutiny.

    (Just like all con-men and criminals.)

  4. Angemon says

    Jan 3, 2017 at 1:14 pm

    If a Muslim finds himself amid such a celebration, the kuffar commit all kinds of sin – imbibing of alcohol, fornication, and debauchery – that must be avoided.

    Funny how all of that is halal when in the afterlife, as ordained by allah. No wonder muslims are f***ed up in the head – they keep hearing that if they kill and/or die for allah they get to do al these things in the afterlife that they can’t do in life, and what do they see when they look around? Infidels are doing those things and, instead of being punished by allah, they thrive and have fun while doing so.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 3, 2017 at 1:15 pm

    Since the new year has thus arrived and the ISIS jihad threat against the USA and American’s citizens to continues a good time to make a revised reiteration that Bible based Christian churches in America are very good bulwarks against Islam with its many false doctrines. For those false doctrines of Islam are exposed in the light of the Bible as being extremely erroneous. Nevertheless, even though I go to such a church , from first hand observation, of Christians in church , it seems many Christians do need to take some time for Christian introspection of their priorities in the news of current events In the world today concerning Islam and its different kinds of jihad.
    For example, this year on March 21, no more than elven miles from the home church there was a speaker who in times pasts, was both a Christian and a Muslim and lived in Iran as an Iranian citizen. Now he’s a Christian and an American and lives in America in an district of Pennsylvania. During the lecture he exposed, from the Quran, the violent and deadly nature of Islam. Likewise he also exposed, for the Quran and the Bible, that the god of Islam is not the God of the Bible.
    The point is of the many people at the lecture not even one person from my home church want to hear him. In contrast a month of two later a number of people ,at church, signed up to take a group trip to go to see baseball game that was about sixty miles away.
    A few month later the Sunday before the Sunday of the fifteenth anniversary after the service no one was, as far as I know , talking about the coming fifteenth anniversary of that vicious demonic jihad attacks by Al Qaeda jihadist on September 11, 2001. The only talk I head was about sports. Those Islamic attacks were heinously wicked and murderous. For the Bible view, those jihad attacks on 9/11 was a sin unto God as well as an affront to God. Furthermore the jihad attacks by the powers and forces of Islam were also a heinous crime against humankind and an affront against America as well as an affront against all that is good and right . Nevertheless I head one mentioned it . Then next exact Sunday that was September 11, 2016 no mention was made of September 11, 2001 .as if the hideous wicked and tragic events of the day never happen. What a shame. In conclusion, in this twenty first century “war of idea’s “ between the Christian West and Islamic East many Christians need to set their priorities right and invest their time and effort ,not so much on frivolous things as sports but subject of value and worth . as the reading and study of book by Christian scholars who used to be Muslims . As for example , the books , ISLAM AND TERRORISM by Mark A. Gabriel and also UNVEILING ISLAM by Eegun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner . Likewise, there is the book ANSWERING JIHAD by Nabeel Qureshi .

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 3, 2017 at 8:18 pm

      Walter, you might consider bringing up these issues and events with your fellow church-goers yourself. If the church itself is amenable, you might even have them formally announce some of these events. The parishioners at your church sound like good people; they may just not be focused enough on the Jihad threat.

      • Walter Sieruk says

        Jan 4, 2017 at 10:28 am

        To gravenimage, you keyboarded the idea that I bring those issues up with my fellow church-goers .. That i did last Sunday to a teacher and then to the pastor. I also made a printout of this above essay to show them.nest Sunday I will do likewise to other teachers at my church.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 3, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    This alertness and need for good security is important because since the new year has arrived of Islamic terrorism is still with us, be the threats in the form of cyber threats or physical threats of jihad violence so we still should not live in fear or be afraid to go different places and do different things Nevertheless, but still be aware of our surrounding and be on the outlook for anything that seems not to look quite right As in “What’s wrong with this picture?”. Then if some wrong is seen then go and tell the right person about it, as a police officer. This may be summed up well as a former US President who declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.” – Thomas Jefferson

  7. Champ says

    Jan 3, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    Islamic State: “To celebrate New Year’s Eve with the kuffar is to embrace their idolatry”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Talk about the height of hypocrisy …

  8. Mira Chaikin says

    Jan 3, 2017 at 5:15 pm

    At the time that Surah was written, those words had justification. I doubt very much that ISIS can use it and win. Do damage, yes, succeed, no.

    At the time of the Prophet, Islam was a liberation against tyranny that existed in Arabia. They were told by Islam that they didn’t have to have gold utensils in order to eat, which was a scam. Some of the wealthy in Arabia had declared that it order for people to eat, they needed gold utensils which of course, poor people couldn’t afford. It was cruel. The residents in Arabia were also worshipping a rock which represented some weird stuff that was ripping people off, not doing anything for them. The Prophet was guided to get angry at the Jewish and Christian residents in Arabia for not teaching and converting the heathen Arabians into a believers of God Hence, the warning against Jews and Christians in that Surah.

    I personally believe that Judaism, Islam and Christianity contain instructions from God. I am not an aethiest.

    ISIS is not coming from the place as the Prophet Mohammad did and their goal of the Islamic Caliphate resembles greatly the Nazi Viking fetish. Very likely, some likeminded individuals had a hand in helping formulate ISIS.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 4, 2017 at 12:27 am

      Mira Chaikin wrote:

      At the time that Surah was written, those words had justification.
      ………………………….

      The only “justification” it had was hatred of Infidels–then as now.

      More:

      At the time of the Prophet, Islam was a liberation against tyranny that existed in Arabia.
      ………………………….

      What utter claptrap. The “Prophet” enslaved and slaughtered Infidels.

      More:

      They were told by Islam that they didn’t have to have gold utensils in order to eat, which was a scam. Some of the wealthy in Arabia had declared that it order for people to eat, they needed gold utensils which of course, poor people couldn’t afford. It was cruel.
      ………………………….

      I have never once heard this apologia for Islam. The idea that poor people were prohibited from eating in Arabia until warlord thug Muhammed took over is absurd.

      There are Hadith condemning to hell anyone who uses gold or silver utensils, but not a single mention of a pre-Islamic prohibition of people being allowed to eat if they did not use them.

      Historical sources, please.

      More:

      The residents in Arabia were also worshipping a rock which represented some weird stuff that was ripping people off, not doing anything for them. The Prophet was guided to get angry at the Jewish and Christian residents in Arabia for not teaching and converting the heathen Arabians into a believers of God Hence, the warning against Jews and Christians in that Surah.
      ………………………….

      Uh…right. Muhammed really wanted Jews and Christians to convert pagans. Again, there is nothing in Islamic texts to support this.

      More:

      I personally believe that Judaism, Islam and Christianity contain instructions from God. I am not an aethiest.
      ………………………….

      Which instructions in Islam do you consider to have come from God? Marrying nine-year-old children? Crucifying apostates? Raping Infidel women? Enslaving and mass-slaughtering unbelievers?

      More:

      ISIS is not coming from the place as the Prophet Mohammad did and their goal of the Islamic Caliphate resembles greatly the Nazi Viking fetish. Very likely, some likeminded individuals had a hand in helping formulate ISIS.
      ………………………….

      What absolute rot. ISIS is perfectly Islamic, exactly on the texts and tenets of Islam and the model of the sanguinary “Prophet”. The idea that the Islamic State is inspired by “Nazi Viking fetish” is ludicrous.

      • Mira Chaikin says

        Jan 4, 2017 at 11:57 am

        You must be know some people who are involved with ISIS because you are helping ISIS with its scam by validating their spins on Islam as being authentic. President George W. Bush said that Al Qaeda is a perversion of Islam and the same is true of ISIS. There are some people with pretty twisted and dangerous interpretations of Christianity and Judaism who have done considerable harm and violence to the world.

        It was not until the 1900’s that the Age of Consent in the United States in most states was raised to 10 years old. Delaware had an Age of Consent of 7 years old; it was common for girls to be married at age 9. And this occurred in Europe also.

        The slave market where ISUS has been known to sell captive females as sex slaves resembles too greatly the slave markets in the South in the US.

        Members of Aryan Nations are known to be training with Al Qaeda and Syria. Maybe those are some of your buddies, moron.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jan 3, 2017 at 7:53 pm

    Islamic State: “To celebrate New Year’s Eve with the kuffar is to embrace their idolatry”
    …………………..

    Celebrating the new year is all about hope, optimism, and the symbolism of a fresh start. New Year’s resolutions are all about improving oneself–typically such matters as personal improvement, education, and being more attentive to one’s loved ones.

    No wonder pious Muslims consider it Haram–and are ready to murder people who celebrate.

  10. Pumbar says

    Jan 4, 2017 at 12:39 am

    “To celebrate New Year’s Eve with the kuffar is to embrace their idolatry”.

    They could’ve said that before the previous New Year’s Eve in Cologne.

  11. mach37 says

    Jan 4, 2017 at 5:28 am

    How much more evidence will it take for the non-Muslim world to realize that Muslims simply do not want to get along with anyone who is not Muslim? When I say “do not want to get along with” I really mean “hate.”

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