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Kashmir: Jihadi imam killed, 70,000 people attend his funeral

Mar 17, 2017 9:36 am By Robert Spencer

Do you think that any of the “Muslim reformers” who are currently enjoying flattery and adulation from the ignorant and hopeful in the U.S. will have 70,000 Muslims attending their funerals? Neither do I. But it is now officially a moral failing on the part of non-Muslims to point out the fact that “extremists” are much more popular with Muslims worldwide than “reformers” are. We are not supposed to notice, and if we do, it makes us jihadis ourselves.

Meanwhile, how did this imam, who had dedicated his life to understanding Islam correctly, end up becoming a jihad leader? How did he misunderstand the Qur’an’s true, peaceful teachings, that are so very clear to Pope Francis and John Kerry and George W. Bush and myriad other learned mullahs?

“The militant who was an Imam,” by Owais Farooqi, Kashmir Monitor, March 11, 2017:

Bandipora: Mushtaq, Hizbul Mujahideen militant killed in Bandipora on Thursday, was an Imam at a local mosque in Hathlangoo, Sopore, until September 2014, when he was believed to be drowned in the floods. His father Sher-Dil Seer was so surprised by the news of his elder son’s killing at the hands of government forces that it took him 15 minutes to recognise his face: thinned, ill-looking, and without the long beard.

“We thought him dead all these years. But we kept searching for him in every place,” Sher-Dil said, a day after the death of his son.

It never crossed Sher-Dil’s mind that his son may have joined militancy. All that he knew was that Mushtaq had been accused by government forces of delivering provocative sermons in the mosque when he led the prayers there. At one time, Mushtaq was picked up by the police SOG (Special Operation Group) on charges of delivering provocative sermons in the Hathlangoo mosque.

“He was slapped and kept for about 15 days in the SOG camp. The DySP (deputy superintendent of police) of the SOG said at that time that Mushtaq was a boy who could not be a trouble maker,” Sher-Dil said.

Before being arrested by the SOG, Mushtaq had served five years in prison. He was accused of killing his wife after two months of their marriage in 2008. “He was acquitted by the court of all charges,” Sher-Dil said of that case.

“After his release from jail in 2013, Mushtaq became a religious man. He grew a long beard. He had been leading prayers even in the prison,” Sher-Dil said.

After coming out from jail, Mushtaq became an Imam and led prayers in the Hathlangoo mosque.

“After the SOG incident, when he came home, I had a very strong argument with Mushtaq. I told him to not say things which did not go well with the government forces. It was a very heated argument. After that argument, he left home, forever,” Sher-Dil said. “He told his mother that he will go to Srinagar and lead prayers there.”…

Relatives and neighbours came to console Sher-Dil and said that Mushtaq had “achieved the highest place in heaven”. To this, Sher-Dil answered, “Let me get this out of my chest: even the Quran says that killing a human is killing humanity. Call me whatever you like…”

Then Sher-Dil said in a whisper, “Do you know seventy-thousand people attended his funeral.”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 9:58 am

    Grieving father Sher-Dil Seer is in denial that his son was a vicious killer and moreover he is denying that ISLAM is the source of his son’s HATRED of humanity and LOVE OF DEATH.

    Sher-Dil Seer is typical of Muslims who DENY that Islam is VICIOUS and HATE-FILLED.

    Koran 48.29: “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; Those with him are VIOLENT (ashiddaa’) against the unbelievers (kufaar), compassionate amongst themselves.”

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 4:31 pm

      And they only follow the part of that command that orders violence. The chopped off hands of Muslim wrongdoers and the sliced off female genitalia of 90% of Muslim females make that all too plain.

  2. Jaladhi says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 10:01 am

    This imam understood Islam very well and that is why he waged jihad, err.. jihad terror. The fact that seventy thousand people attended his funeral tells you Muslims consider terror(jihad) as holy and this terrorist goes to paradise to his 70 whores!

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 10:04 am

    70,000 people will never attend the funeral of an Islamic reformer. Any ‘moderate’ Muslim is probably 90% an apostate.

    They would be afraid of being the objects of a terror attack if they attended such an event honoring a REFORMER of Sharia law. Trying to reform Sharia law would bring fatwas upon the heads of the ‘moderate’ Muslims.

    Would-be reformer Irshad Manji, subject of fatwas and death threats, now lives 24-hours a day with bodyguards.

  4. Keval says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 10:14 am

    This is hilarious. NO reporting of jihad is complete without this
    “To this, Sher-Dil answered, “Let me get this out of my chest: even the Quran says that killing a human is killing humanity. Call me whatever you like…”

  5. common sense says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 11:01 am

    Islam is a “spiritual parent” to its followers,

    -“Bad egg, bad bird”.-

  6. kessler says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 11:35 am

    “…the Quran says that killing a human is killing humanity.” – no it doesn’t.

  7. Stan Lee says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 11:52 am

    The father, Sher Dil explains that the Quran states that killing someone is killing humanity. But, that passage in the Muslim holy book is contradicted many times over, because those who are dedicated to the Quran kill as directed by it. There must be an exclusion in the Quran that contradicts the passage defining killing a person is killing humanity. I don’t know where that passage is, but it should be reasonably expected.

    There are other passages in the Quran that direct Muslims to kill members of another faith, or Muslims who have converted to any other religion, plus death for a number of other issues forbidden in the Quran. The entire issue, encompassing various forbidden acts in the Quran which call for the death penalty, must be most confusing to the religious Muslim. Therefore, I wonder why the Quran dwells so much in the killing of people if it also warns of “killing humanity?”

    On one hand, killing anyone is “killing humanity,” or does that statement cover-up the actions of Muslims who are involved in the murder of another human? Also, the Quran directs death to any apostate (that is still murder!)) and it has directed death to Jews from the Quran’s beginning to the present! Their bible came centuries before the Quran.

    The conclusion has to be that while the Quran defines killing anyone is “killing humanity,” there are so many instances in which by now, so many deaths are attributable to Muslims who claim a passage of the Quran directed the death of a human who must have been adjudged “not human” in order to both kill and be forgiven for it by the Quran.

    I can’t blame anyone for not seeing my point, because about this distorted subject in Islam, I can’t see the point either. What about not reacting to an issue by immediately deciding murder is the solution?
    I haven’t pored through the contents of “the holy book,” but self-defense or defense of one’s family both seem to be important, and far moreso than being judge and journey at a particular scene, whereupon the Muslim reacts instantly that he or she must perpetrate murder to make things right.

    A very difficult issue, friends. And, even more difficult for the victim/victims.

  8. Florida Jim says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 9:36 am

    70,000 fools following a killer is that what we should allow in america? Minneapolis, Hamtramck, Michigan, Flint, Michigan, upstate New York, Nevada there are many such muslim communities building to a jihad soon as Democrats and other fools turn their heads.Why do so many people turn out for killers like Imams, terrorists and politicians [Ellison].

  9. Angemon says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 6:35 pm

    Relatives and neighbours came to console Sher-Dil and said that Mushtaq had “achieved the highest place in heaven”. To this, Sher-Dil answered, “Let me get this out of my chest: even the Quran says that killing a human is killing humanity. Call me whatever you like…”

    Relatives and neighbours came to console Sher-Dil and said that Mushtaq had “achieved the highest place in heaven”. To this, Sher-Dil answered, “Let me get this out of my chest: even the Quran says that killing a human is killing humanity. Call me whatever you like…”

    Sure thing: ignorant of what the quran says. That’s 5:32, and it refers to what the Jewish scriptures say – it’s applicable to Jews. Let me point you to 9:111:

    Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed. [It is] a true promise [binding] upon Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah ? So rejoice in your transaction which you have contracted. And it is that which is the great attainment.

  10. Darshan Dave says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 10:31 am

    Don’t react to these people just look how they published article related to 16 year singer Nahid and fatwas of 46 mullas with title India and how they are publishing this news with title Kasmir. This attitude tells everything about them.

  11. Khushi says

    Mar 21, 2017 at 9:19 am

    Sharukh khan had also refused to classify kashmiri terrorists as terrorists – he said some call them freedom fighters.
    kashmir is the north Indian state which killed all its Hindu population or made them leave their birthplace.
    And the shameless Indian media watched these killings quietly – hardly reporting on it.
    And this same Indian media not only reported on the Gujarat riots as if only muslims were killed (Hindus and muslims both lost lives) they also constantly kept repeating the riot stories to keep them fresh in Indian minds.

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