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Muslim cleric says Muslims are seen as “the world’s headache”

Sep 23, 2017 11:13 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“If Muslims were removed from the face of the Earth, there would be no more headaches in the world – no bombings, no bribery, no plundering, and no kidnapping.”

Are these the words of a xenophobic “Islamophobe”? If a non-Muslim had said them, that would be how they would be received.

No, these are the words of a Muslim cleric who also praised Jews for winning the respect of the world “through science,” despite their suffering in the Holocaust.

He advised Muslims to follow the same path, a difficult thing to do in today’s climate, in which those who warn about Islamic supremacism and jihad are demonized. Far too many would rather continue to be accomplices in promoting the propagandist victimology subterfuge of jihadists.

“Iraqi cleric praises Jews, says Muslims seen as ‘world’s headache’”, Times of Israel, September 22, 2017:

An Iraqi cleric recently praised the Jewish people for having emerged from the Holocaust following World War II and managed to win the “respect of the world through science,” while Muslims are seen as having become “the world’s headache.”

In a sermon posted to YouTube last month titled “Don’t Be Mad. Strong Words. Imitate the Jews in This,” and translated this week by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Shiite cleric Salam Al-Askari said that after suffering in Europe during the Holocaust, where “Nazis killed and burned them” and they were “killed in droves,” the Jews, he said, “put their greatest minds into science” and “made the entire world kneel before them, and accept and respect the Jewish nation.”

In a departure from much of the content translated from Arabic by MEMRI, rife with statements from religious officials and others attacking Jews and Israel, and accusing them of being behind a host of disasters, the sermon shows the cleric listing what he describes as Jewish achievements, including the invention of acetone and nuclear power, and describing how the Jews “won over” Europe.

“The Jews suffered,” he said. “The Nazis killed and burned them. They were brought in groups to special places, where they were gassed and they suffocated and died. The Jews were killed in droves. They wanted to emigrate but some European countries banned the Jews from entering. ‘We will not accept them,’ they said. They were tormented in Germany… Today, when our countries suffer, the youth emigrate to Europe. But back then, Europe shut its doors to the Jews.”

An Iraqi cleric recently praised the Jewish people for having emerged from the Holocaust following World War II and managed to win the “respect of the world through science,” while Muslims are seen as having become “the world’s headache.”

In a sermon posted to YouTube last month titled “Don’t Be Mad. Strong Words. Imitate the Jews in This,” and translated this week by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Shiite cleric Salam Al-Askari said that after suffering in Europe during the Holocaust, where “Nazis killed and burned them” and they were “killed in droves,” the Jews, he said, “put their greatest minds into science” and “made the entire world kneel before them, and accept and respect the Jewish nation.”

In a departure from much of the content translated from Arabic by MEMRI, rife with statements from religious officials and others attacking Jews and Israel, and accusing them of being behind a host of disasters, the sermon shows the cleric listing what he describes as Jewish achievements, including the invention of acetone and nuclear power, and describing how the Jews “won over” Europe.

“The Jews suffered,” he said. “The Nazis killed and burned them. They were brought in groups to special places, where they were gassed and they suffocated and died. The Jews were killed in droves. They wanted to emigrate but some European countries banned the Jews from entering. ‘We will not accept them,’ they said. They were tormented in Germany… Today, when our countries suffer, the youth emigrate to Europe. But back then, Europe shut its doors to the Jews.”

Al-Askari continued, later in the sermon: “What tipped the balance in WWII in favor of the Allies were the two bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. You’ve all heard about this, right? This bomb that terrified the world was manufactured by Jewish minds. It was designed by the minds of Jewish physicists. Europe declared officially: ‘We need the Jewish nation,’” he said, according to the MEMRI translation.

Turning to the Muslim nation, the cleric referred to an article he said was published by a European writer questioning what would happen should Muslims “be removed from the face of the earth.”

The conclusion of the article, al-Askari said, “was that if Muslims were removed from the face of the Earth, there would be no more headaches in the world – no bombings, no bribery, no plundering, and no kidnapping.”

“We are two billion Muslims in the world. How many Jews are there worldwide? 17 million. 17 million….

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  1. John A. Marre says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 11:26 am

    Headache, backache, assache, brainache, heartache, indigestion, cancer. If it were wiped off the face of the Earth, the human race would return to being the summit of God’s creation.

    • manat bint allaha says

      Sep 24, 2017 at 12:58 am

      ..which was tampered with, by islam.

    • Carolyne says

      Sep 24, 2017 at 12:27 pm

      Yeah, if Eve hadn’t listened to that darn snake.

  2. Linde Barrera says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 11:39 am

    So glad at least 1 Muslim knows the truth and has spoken it. I hope he doesn’t get attacked, or worse, killed. I do not wish that for any Muslim.

    • Dan says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 8:27 pm

      I don’t wish that on any Muslim who wants to live in peace; as in OUR definition of peace.

  3. marina says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 11:39 am

    A world free of Muslims would be a much better place to live in. We need more people like this cleric who has the voice of reason.

  4. mortimer says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    Mullah al-Askari is right that if the world had no more Muslims, most of the warfare and attacks would cease. He must realize that the way to rid the world of the ideology of Islam is to encourage Muslims to abandon Islam and all the backwardness it teaches.

    • Bev says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 2:10 pm

      Islam is not an ideology like Baptist. It is also a system of govt (Islam) and system of laws (Sharia). You swear allegiance to it. You are on yout knees 5 times a day praying to kill the infidel. It is a totalitarian theocracy with 24/7/365 control.

  5. ElderlyZionist says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    “… the Jews…made the entire world kneel before them…”

    I’m not sure that was a compliment.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 2:38 pm

      Disagree with EZ:

      I believe Salam Al-Askari is speaking in particular of the veneration that the Nobel Academy has bestowed on a large cohort of Jewish scientists and thinkers whose discoveries have enhanced human life immeasurably. He speaks as well in favor of the need for Israel. He appears to be a Muslim Zionist.

      The Koran commands the ‘Children of Israel’ to dwell in the land of Israel.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 7:19 pm

      Good point, ElderlyZionist. It is, of course, also false.

      Respect for someone’s accomplishments is not “kneeling” before someone–nor, of course, are accomplished Jewish people demanding this.

      This does not sound all that different from more mainstream Muslim antisemitism.

  6. David says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 1:22 pm

    islam

  7. Jack Diamond says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 1:50 pm

    Yes, Muslims, be more like the Jews so you too can create bombs that terrify the world and win its respect. That is the Jewish achievement? The power to “make the world kneel at their feet” (not their moral example, not the Judeo-Christian foundation of Western civilization). “Make the world kneel at their feet” is a ridiculous phrase to apply to the Jews, of course, but a meaningful one to Muslims in their understanding of how the world works, why Israel came about, and what their own goal should be.

    It sure was a short-lived “kneeling” considering how how quickly Europe turned against Israel in favor of Eurabia.

    • Jaladhi says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 1:59 pm

      I think Europeans will become Muslim in a “few” years and then they will come after us as Islam teaches!

      • mortimer says

        Sep 23, 2017 at 2:58 pm

        Scientists of many nations, gradually discovered the many parts of the science that would permit nuclear power. A few of them are the following: Charles Glover Barkla, J. J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Max Planck, Pierre and Marie Curie, James Chadwick, Harold Clayton Urey, I. Curie, P. Savitch, Otto Hahn, Enrico Fermi, Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, Niels Bohr, F. Strassman, Robert Oppenheimer, etc. Nuclear power has been a decidedly international discovery.

        We kneel in gratitude for all they did to benefit the world. Nuclear power is a great blessing and is what has prevented large-scale world wars since 1945.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 7:23 pm

      Good post, Jack.

  8. Jaladhi says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    He was a bit shy of the real description – Muslims are seen as world wide menace, not just seen they are worldwide menace!

  9. mortimer says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    The world sees ISLAM as Seventeen Cults in One

    Islam is : a DEATH CULT, a RAPE CULT, an EXTORTION CULT, a PLUNDER CULT, a CENSORSHIP CULT, a MISOGYNY CULT, a LIE CULT, a PEDOPHILIA CULT, a SADOMASOCHISM CULT, an OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE CULT, a SUPREMACISM CULT, a MALE CHAUVINIST CULT, an INBREEDING CULT, an OBSCURANTISM CULT, a SUPERSTITION CULT, a PERSONALITY CULT, a CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CULT. 17 cults in one!

    • katherine says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 8:04 pm

      17 is just too much – cut that down to an unmanageable 10 please.

  10. abad says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 3:02 pm

    When the Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth, Islam will be no more.

    • gary says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 7:59 pm

      I long for that day. The day when the one known as “Faithful & True” rules in Righteousness!!!

      • Bob says

        Sep 24, 2017 at 9:38 am

        AMEN – shouted!

    • Carolyne says

      Sep 24, 2017 at 12:36 pm

      But, but…..What if the 12th Imam returns first? Don’t you understand that Iranian Muslims believe that a person who walked the earth centuries ago will return and save the world? This is a belief held as firmly as the belief that Jesus will return. Maybe they stole the idea from Christianity, but however they came by it they are as steadfast in the belief as any Christian is in his belief in Jesus returning. Who is to say which is correct? On what basis? Most likely, IMO, neither is correct.

      • Nancy Albert says

        Sep 24, 2017 at 1:14 pm

        The 12th Imam has already arrived and is planning to step into his rightful place in history after having used the US presidency to crush a secular effort to overthrow Imams and enrich the Shiite caliphate.

  11. Matt says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 3:05 pm

    “Cancer” is more the word I would use.

    • Mockingjay says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 6:57 pm

      – My thought exactly.

      And instead of containing it, we’ve allowed it to metastasize all over the world.

      Islam really IS like cancer: it is self-destructive as it will eventually kill its “host”, if left untreated – in this case the “body” of human civilization – or even humanity itself.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 7:24 pm

      Yes–“headache” is far too mild.

  12. Edgar Allan says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 3:36 pm

    Jesuit Manuel Carreia: “Islam, the Worst Plague the Human Race Has Ever Seen”

    http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2016/04/madrid-famous-astrophysicist-and-jesuit.html

  13. Wellington says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 6:23 pm

    So, why is this guy still a Muslim since there is not one damn thing in Islam that is good that can’t be found elsewhere and yet there is so much rot in Islam that is deuce difficult to find anywhere else?

    Any Muslim who retains any kind of common sense and accurate knowledge of the world, and who wishes to still be religious, should gravitate to another major religion like Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism or Hinduism.

    I defy anyone, Muslim or non-Muslim, to name me one good thing about Islam that is unique to Islam. I say it can’t be done. Go ahead, prove me wrong. I aver no one can.

    • Mockingjay says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 7:33 pm

      I must say I’m also quite puzzled by why these kind of imams still feel they want to belong to islam, regardless.

      – Maybe they believe that the “revelation” of mohammad in essence was true, but that everything that followed is up for interpretation?

      – If so, they need to do some research, because it will tell them that absolutely NOTHING about this mohammad can be substantiated by historic,or archeologic research, and that it is, in fact, MUCH more likely that the whole story has been made up, artificially constructed, than that anything like it ever really transpired.
      – This, of course, would leave islam without ANY basis whatsoever – let alone one of true revelation – and can then ONLY lead one away from what can be rightfully called a “fraud of a religion”.

  14. Monty says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 6:32 pm

    Most Muslims see things completely the opposite. When there are no more “infidels”, there will be no need for bombings, murders and all kinds of typical Islamic atrocities. This ignores the fact that Muslims are more than willing to kill other Muslims on various pretexts that mean little to us infidels. Murder is in the genetic make up of Islam. It was founded in bloodshed and it continues to enforce its will by the same means. And most people live in complete ignorance of Islam’s agenda. There is no excuse, Islam makes it clear what the intent is and so do many of its spokesmen.

  15. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 6:39 pm

    His little speech is downright un-Mohammadin! Unless of course he’s engaging in some kind of 3-D chess taquiyya …

  16. gravenimage says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 7:14 pm

    Muslim cleric says Muslims are seen as “the world’s headache”
    ………………….

    The problem, of course, is that the texts and tenets of Islam–as well as the model of the “Prophet”–*demand* that Muslims be the world’s headache.

    I hope Salam Al-Askari stays safe from his coreligionists, now that he has told the truth about Muslims.

  17. Infidel says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    The same analogy can be drawn regarding Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. Both countries started their independent trajectories in August 1947, in fact Muslim Pak started a day earlier… But look what has happened today??? Today Pakistan is a terrorist state and India for all its plusses and minusses, is a technological power and we have even sent a successful unmanned mission to Mars in 2014.

    And nothing illustrates this better than the Indian foreign minister’s recent address to the UN ..
    Ps C

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/swaraj-slams-pakistan-at-un-asks-why-india-turns-produces-engineers-doctors-and-they-jihadis/articleshow/60812013.cms

    • Michael Copeland says

      Sep 24, 2017 at 9:12 am

      Pakistan, the Pure (“Paki”) Islamic State, applies Sharia.
      Pakistan is a failed state.
      The two things are connected.

  18. Kepha says

    Sep 24, 2017 at 12:13 am

    Maybe there are more Muslims hiding out there embarrassed that their religion, nominal or sincere, has indeed become the world’s headache.

    I pray that the Spirit of God will solve the problem by bringing more and more Muslims to the Christ presented in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.

  19. nicholas tesdorf says

    Sep 24, 2017 at 4:21 am

    Muslims are more like a severe Migraine. However,it is unusual to hear this from a Muslim. He should be on the lookout for attacks from anti-apostates.

  20. FYI says

    Sep 24, 2017 at 7:57 am

    islam is God’s headache too….

    Seriously though,if you are a muslim you really,really need to find the Original Commandments of God(which allah disagrees with..),ignore the koran and follow those laws of God instead.

    You would also have to understand that that the example of muhammed is not the example you should follow.

  21. Dustin Koellhoffer says

    Sep 24, 2017 at 11:49 am

    No, you’re the world’s cancerous hemorrhoids.

  22. More Ham Ed says

    Sep 24, 2017 at 4:46 pm

    Islam is literally causing explosion-related headaches globally.
    31786 documented deadly islamic (lowercase be upon it) terror attacks since 9/11.
    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com

    “Terrorists open fire after lobbing a grenade at a bus stop”
    http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kashmir-2-civilians-killed-as-terrorists-hurl-grenade-minister-escapes-unhurt/story-bScgWPclDNy6u9kahUSXoI.html

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