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Muslim cleric: “America has created ISIS in order to distort Islam”

Aug 16, 2017 2:58 pm By Robert Spencer

“America created ISIS for several reasons, the first of which is the distortion of the image of Islam. They want to distort the image of this religion. I know of many people who renounced Islam because of ISIS. They used to pray and fast, but when they saw ISIS, and saw that whenever its members kill or slaughter somebody, they recite Quranic verses, they said: ‘If this is Islam, we want nothing to do with it.’ They became apostates after believing in Allah. They became atheists. This is the situation among Muslims, and it is worse in the West, where ISIS has become synonymous with Islam.”

Dahman doesn’t explain why the U.S. wanted to distort the image of Islam in the first place. Why did the U.S. go to all this trouble to create ISIS? So that people would leave Islam? Apparently Dahman thinks that people were leaving Islam because they thought it was violent, when it’s really peaceful. But if it’s really peaceful, why did the U.S. go to these elaborate lengths just to get people to leave it? Ultimately Dahman’s reasoning goes back only to the proposition that the U.S. is a Satanic entity, an enemy of Allah.

“Istanbul Friday Sermon by Syrian Cleric Mohammad Basem Dahman: The U.S. Created ISIS to Distort the Image of Islam,” MEMRI, June 19, 2017:

In a Friday sermon delivered in Istanbul, Syrian cleric Sheikh Mohammad Basem Dahman said that ISIS was a purely American product, created in order to distort the image of Islam. “It created it and armed it,” with the money of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Kuwait, and Qatar, claimed Sheikh Dahman, who further said that the phenomenon of ISIS had led to people renouncing Islam, especially in the West, “where ISIS has become synonymous with Islam.” The sermon, titled “the Illusion of the Islamic State,” was delivered in the Ahmad Kuftaro Institute for the Training of Arab and Turkish Preachers, which Sheikh Dahman runs, and was posted on his YouTube account on June 19.

Mohammad Basem Dahman: …ISIS is a purely American product. ISIS is a purely American product. The U.S. created it and armed it, but not with its own money. It did so with the money of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Kuwait, and Qatar. The U.S. provides the weapons and receives the profits. Thus, the war continues and the U.S. exports weapons, and wealth rains down upon America like gold falling from the skies. America created ISIS for several reasons, the first of which is the distortion of the image of Islam. They want to distort the image of this religion. I know of many people who renounced Islam because of ISIS. They used to pray and fast, but when they saw ISIS, and saw that whenever its members kill or slaughter somebody, they recite Quranic verses, they said: “If this is Islam, we want nothing to do with it.” They became apostates after believing in Allah. They became atheists. This is the situation among Muslims, and it is worse in the West, where ISIS has become synonymous with Islam.

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America has created ISIS in order to distort Islam, just like Britain created Wahhabism two centuries ago in order to distort Islam.

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America created Al-Qaeda, but its role is over. It created ISIS, and now its role is over too. Only Allah knows what America will come up with next – what organization, what ideology, and in which country.

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  1. Santa Voorhees says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 3:03 pm

    “….. and saw that whenever its members kill or slaughter somebody, they recite Quranic verses…..”

    This is where his argument falls. Period.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    When that Muslim cleric declared “America has created ISIS in order to distort Islam.” By saying that bogus statement is that this Muslim cleric is actually engaging in putting up an smokescreen to hide the actual brutal ,vicious deadly essence of non -watered hard core Islam His effort of distracting attention away from the study of the real nature of Islam by shifting all the blame for ISIS on the USA is part of the ploy of Taqiyya , meaning deception for the advancement of Islam.
    The cruel ,vicious and murderous jihadists thugs who compose the brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS are actually putting in to the practice ,with all their ruthless actions, the violence and killing that is part of the teaching of the “holy book” of Islam ,the Koran. Which contain the doctrine of extreme violent force for the advancement of Islam. As seen in the Koran, for example, 2:191,4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. So in spite of the strong denials by many, ISIS is an actual Islamic organization. Likewise the malicious, bloodthirsty violence jihadists who make up ISIS are real Muslims. Nevertheless, there are some who might , understandably, wonder and then ask “Just how can those jihadists of ISIS ,being so very religious , also at the time also be so very malice-filled ,unfeeling and deadly ? “ The answer to that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches that there are some people who are extremely heartless, cold, callous and dangerous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [ K.J.V.] In this case of the members of ISIS this “hot iron” is Islam.

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    I’ve long speculated on who’d take the blame when Persia nukes America. I knew for sure it wouldn’t be Hillary and Barack Hussein, who started it, or Big John, who concluded it. Based on this, my guess now is that conservatives will take the fall for the immolating of whatever city gets nuked. May I suggest Washington?

  4. Peter Buckley says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 3:56 pm

    “I know of many people who renounced Islam because of ISIS. They used to pray and fast, but when they saw ISIS, and saw that whenever its members kill or slaughter somebody, they recite Quranic verses, they said: ‘If this is Islam, we want nothing to do with it.’ They became apostates after believing in Allah. They became atheists. This is the situation among Muslims, and it is worse in the West, where ISIS has become synonymous with Islam.””

    Yes indeed. This is what I keep saying. Dahman is correct in saying ISIS, though not alone, is destroying Islam:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cftuCDAobis&t=138s

    However, Dahman is INCORRECT in saying ISIS is “unIslamic”.

    The world’s largest school of Sunni theol;ogy, Al Azhar University in Cairo, has publicly admitted that nothing ISIS have been doing can be called “unIslamic”, and have refused to condemn the group:

    http://raymondibrahim.com/2015/12/03/al-azhar-cannot-denounce-isis-of-being-un-islamic-even-if-isis-commits-every-atrocity/

    If you watch that youtube clip you will hear what I’ve been saying for years: that the current violence is a sign of Islam’s terminal collapse rather than a sign of its strength. This will be the final “world jihad”. The irony is that, on this occasion, the jihad is having the very opposite effect of the one intended. It is demonstrating to muslims the true nature of the religion they were born into. And good people who happen to have been born into it, want nothing more to do with it. It’s actually little to do with America or even ISIS . The collapse would have happened anyway because of the availability of the Internet. As soon as that happened, Islam was doomed. Muslims can now “go to the sources” and discover they’ve been sold half-truths about their religion.Only ten years into the Internet, and they’re already desperately trying to “reform” it. Here is Raymond Ibrahim’s article again. JW readers can post it to anyone in the media who claims that ISIS are “perverting the true Islam” etc……………

    http://raymondibrahim.com/2015/12/03/al-azhar-cannot-denounce-isis-of-being-un-islamic-even-if-isis-commits-every-atrocity/

    More here:

    http://raymondibrahim.com/2017/03/08/cannibalism-isis-revives-islams-original-terror-tactic/

    http://raymondibrahim.com/2016/02/05/isis-the-latest-phase-of-the-jihad/

    • mortimer says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 9:12 am

      ISIS is meticulously and self-consciously Islamic … ultra-orthodox Islamic.

  5. Ren says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 4:51 pm

    Hahaha! America has created Muhammad, the pedophile, the thief and the murderer in order to distort the message of god.

    • luke says

      Oct 13, 2017 at 8:27 pm

      but america was not yet exists as a country in 600 AD..

  6. somehistory says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 4:58 pm

    These ugly fools will say anything to try and protect the beast of islum in order to conquer the world of mankind for satan the devil.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 9:16 am

      Agree with somehistory that the mullahs will “say anything to try to protect” Islam.

      One million mullahs study Islam every day. I believe they ALL know that Islam is tragically flawed, but they need the job and continue to sell Islam for a living, even though they don’t believe in it themselves.

      Tragic!

  7. Guest says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 5:01 pm

    We don’t need to do that. Islam was distorted since the beginning

  8. overman says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 5:02 pm

    “I know of many people who renounced Islam because of ISIS. They used to pray and fast, but when they saw ISIS, and saw that whenever its members kill or slaughter somebody, they recite Quranic verses, they said: ‘If this is Islam, we want nothing to do with it.’ They became apostates after believing in Allah. They became atheists.”

    Sounds like a blessing in disguise.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Aug 16, 2017 at 5:35 pm

      That is Islam and you should want nothing to do with it. Here’s to a rising sea of apostasy…for Allah is surely Satan. ISIS is synonymous with Islam, and with Muhammad and his Companions. Deal with it.

    • Westman says

      Aug 16, 2017 at 11:42 pm

      Yes, an unexpected blessing.

      “America has created ISIS in order to distort Islam” Don’t we wish we had politicians that smart? Instead they pulled out and left a vacuum and all that Islamic hate-energy big-banged itself into a material existence.

  9. commonsense says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 5:32 pm

    Dahman doesn’t explain how the U.S. got money from Saudi Arabia et al. to finance ISIS, nor does he explain why countries like KSA, with its monarchy potentially threatened by a pan-Sunni Caliphate, would willingly fund and support an entity such as ISIS. Perhaps a swig of camel urine – the Prophet’s panacea – would clear his head.

    • Robeaver says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 12:35 pm

      Does this mean urine trouble?

  10. abad says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    Just another taqiyya sunrise from a Moslem cleric as usual

  11. Georg says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 9:54 pm

    “I know many people who have renounced Islam due to the Islamic State.”

    Well, why don’t you have a nice long think about that, dip&*%#.

  12. gravenimage says

    Aug 16, 2017 at 11:32 pm

    Muslim cleric: “America has created ISIS in order to distort Islam”
    ………………………

    Of course, this is ludicrous. ISIS are not the only Jihadists–there is the Taliban, Al Nusra, Boko Haran, Al Shebaab, on and on–all pious Muslims, acting just the same way.

    And why does ISIS and other Jihad groups act this way? On the model of the “Prophet” of Islam himself. Islam has been like this from the beginning.

  13. FYI says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 7:18 am

    “..In order to distort islam”

    Speaking of DISTORTIONS..

    Has he ever read the ….koran or the hadith or seriously analysed the life of muhammed?

    If you want distortion…I challenge any muslim in the world to do this:-

    1)Look at the Original Commandments of God.

    2)What does God say:it is pretty clear and there are no equivocations are there?
    Any equivocations come from “holy” men and they are wrong.

    God does not say …Thou shalt not kill(..except infidels),thou shalt not commit adultery..(except with an enslaved woman that your right hand possesses),thou shalt not steal(..but its ok to steal from infidels and force them to pay that jizya tax),thou shalt not lie(..but its ok to use taqqiya and lie to promote islam).That’s what allah does and says:feel free if you are a muslim to break God’s Commandments.
    allah even permits a muslim to break the sixth commandment,which is a sin against God any yet amazingly be rewarded in paradise…for doing EVIL!

    God says.. Thou shalt not Kill .. 6th commandment
    Thou shalt not commit adultery…7th commandment
    Thou shalt not steal….8th commandment
    Thou shalt not bear FALSE WITNESS….9th commandment

    3)What does allah say in his perfect book?Surely allah must agree with GOD’S OFFICIAL COMMANDMENTS{Exodus 20:1-17..they are not formally listed in the koran.. and what about those essential Two Chief Commandments that are found in Judaism and Christianity but not in islam?…It seems allah completely missed them,didnt he?Oh What a mystery it all is..{sarc}Was allah out that day when God gave His Laws to mankind?}

    allah says..

    Thou shalt kill……………… koran 2:191
    Thou may commit adultery……….. koran 4:24,K33:50,Bukhari 5:268
    Thou shalt steal……………………….. k48:20.ibn ishaq 764
    Thou may bear false witness.. …. wait…isn’t Taqqiya bearing false witness?

    In fact as long as the victims are infidels,allah is fine with encouraging his followers to break ALL of God’s Commandments.

    4)Can you see the ENORMOUS HERD OF ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM OF islam?

    If allah/the koran/mo/muslims do not conform to God’s Original Commandments…..CAN YOU SEE THE PROBLEM HERE?

    allah also sanctions..

    torture of innocent unbelievers…k22:19-22
    polygamy k4:3(an immoral sinful activity and always inspired by.. a false prophet)
    sexual slavery of women k23.6

    As for mohammed and his revelations delivered via the anti-Semitic jibreel..

    “The divine inspirations do not come to me on any beds(plural!)except of Aisha”
    Bukhari 47:755

    Beds?Wasn’t Aisha a 9 year old “woman” when mo took her?

    If you want DISTORTION..it comes from islam itself……no point blaming America.

    isis are the heirs of muhammed and they are simply following his example and allah’s commandment-violating instructions.

    • Robeaver says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 1:11 pm

      And slavery? Woopsey. Guess you forgot that allowable in the old testament from God.

      • luke says

        Sep 21, 2017 at 6:59 am

        You forgot such allowance doesn’t come without strings attached; go read Deuteronomy 15:12-18.

  14. Mockingjay says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 8:58 am

    Hmmm… this cleric worries about muslims leaving islam because of isis…

    …why isn’t he worried about the thousands and THOUSANDS of (young) muslims from Europe and elsewhere who thought the whole idea of isis was SO damn appealing they couldn’t wait to either join it or murder infidels in its name in the lands of the infidel?

    – Why on earth would they all fall for what the cleric claims is an american construct?

    Why, oh why???

    Ah well – I guess America is just very good at marketing virtually ANYTHING.

  15. mortimer says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 9:04 am

    Islam has NOTHING TO DO with Islam.

    And JIHAD has nothing to do with Islam.

    And discriminatory Sharia law has nothing to do with Islam.

  16. mortimer says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 9:07 am

    THE REAL IMAGE OF ISLAM? Here it is: Hatred of Kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’ …

    -“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.

    – https://islamfuture.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/al-wala-wal-bara-according-to-the-aqeedah-of-the-salaf-parts-123/

  17. Chand says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 9:21 am

    Cleric Dahman: “America has created ISIS……………”

    That statement is partially true, in a roundabout way, in a different sense.

    Happened as a fall out of the Cold War. Atheistic Communism/Socialism was perceived as greater threat than Islamic Jihadism and so all allies of the USSR were blindly opposed by the West, including the Muslim leaders trying to modernize their lands by suppressing and diminishing the power of the clerics and trying to eliminate the aggressive teaching of the Koran. Then when the USSR invaded Afghanistan to eliminate the Jihadi threat coming from there, they were actively and militarily opposed by providing arms and money to the Jihadi mujahideen, along with their Arab allies.
    So there was Alqaeda and then the attack on the US embassies in Africa and then 9/11 and the rest of it. Then Bush invaded Iraq and the jihadis found fertile ground in Iraq too, after Afghanistan and Pakistan. They thrive on a disintegrated society, broken by violence and war.
    The Sunni jihadis there brutally and persistently targeted the Shias in order to invite a backlash that would force the Sunnis to unite in jihad. Then the Shia-dominated Malliki govt. in Iraq, set up by the US, in turn severely persecuted the Sunni minority and soon the Sunnis had no one helping them but the jihadis and so Alqaeda in Iraq morphed into ISIS.

    However, America did not consciously want to ‘distort Islam’ and so the second half of the cleric’s statement is untrue.They had no clue about the potential dangers lurking in the Holy Book and the possibilities of its mis-use or use by future jihadis.

    But what happened as a consequence of these events was that Bush Jr., by removing Saddam Hussein, inadvertently played a master stroke by dividing the Shias and the Sunnis for a long time to come, dividing the Muslim world. Imagine a world with both Sunni and Shia jihadis working together!

  18. Henner720 says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 10:25 am

    Ch.3,v.28. Quran again. The deception mandate.qurupting the worlds relation with ANY muslim slick gentle friendly smooth do not help, cause how can we accesd if its 3.28. We can not.

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