A prominent Iraqi Shiite interfaith activist told BBC Arabic earlier this month that the Islamic State terror group’s violence, including beheadings, is “deeply rooted in Islam,” which makes it “a hundred times more evil.” Jawad Al-Khoei also said that Christians were “the owners of this land, and the Muslims came here as their guests.
Al-Khoei has injected truth into “interfaith dialogue.” The practices of the Islamic State are indeed backed up by Islamic texts. Al-Khoei goes on to discuss an even grimmer picture than that of the notorious beheadings committed by the Islamic State against disbelievers in accordance with Islamic doctrine:
When you read [Islamic] history, you find that people would kill someone, then exhume the body, cut off his head and then burn the body
Although Jawad Al-Khoei castigates Iraq for being too Islam-centric, while not promoting the truth about Islam and learning about other faiths, here in the West there exists a sizeable problem — though differently manifested — with interfaith dialogues accepting truth as well. Many interfaith dialogues in the West are a sham, and have done the opposite of promoting harmony, equality, peace and dialogue. Instead, they facilitate the worst kind of bigotry, with the participation of some who may be well meaning but uninformed. Some examples:
1. A bigotry of low expectations, in which any kind of bad and barbaric behaviour from visible minorities and foreigners is accepted as a matter of “tolerance.”
2. Selling the notion that the world revolves around colonialist/imperialist guilt, and that no one should dare interfere with this ironically leftist egocentric pity party.
3. The dismissal of anyone — including visible minorities — from open discussions about the importation of unacceptable practices via immigration, due to the presence of these unacceptable practices within certain cultures. Yet these practices should never be permitted to enter free and democratic societies. Many voiceless visible minorities themselves suffer the consequences of this, primarily women: FGM, forced marriage, honor killings, wife beatings, etc.
4. The failure to acknowledge that no organized religion today is more intolerant, non-pluralistic, misogynistic, and brutal today than normative Islam. Any Muslim who attempts to deviate from normative Islam is deemed an apostate and worthy of death. Interfaith dialogue sessions prefer to treat apostates as nonexistent.
5. The fact that black slavery still exists, but interfaith dialogues prefer to ignore the plight of blacks in Muslim nations in North Africa, where they are still deemed to be inferior in the modern age.
The truth is well expressed by Al-Khoei when he highlights the 1400 years of abuse committed in the name of Islam that continues today.
“Interfaith dialogue” sessions everywhere are too often bypassing stark human cruelties. Caring about humanity is absent from most of these “diversity” exercises in the West. Fake smiles, deceptive handshakes and political correctness are the orders of the day, and participants are little more than tallies at the voting polls and/or pawns to special interest groups.
A retweet by UK Muslim Labour MP Naz Shah raised shock and alarm, as it appeared to be a bizarre exaggeration of the promotion of diversity (and interfaith dialogue, which goes hand in hand with the “diversity” imperative). But it did shed some light on what is wrong with much of this movement. Shah retweeted “advice” given to the victims of Muslim rape gangs to “shut up for the good of diversity.” The general message is that anyone who tells the truth about the aggressive, brutal, barbaric and expansionary political Islam must “shut up for the good of diversity.”
Al-Khoei rightly states:
when violence “dons the cloak of religion, it is a hundred times more evil.”
“WATCH – Shiite Interfaith Activist: Islamic State’s Terror, Beheadings ‘Deeply Rooted in Islam,’” by Deborah Danan, Breitbart, March 17, 2018:
TEL AVIV – A prominent Iraqi Shiite interfaith activist told BBC Arabic earlier this month that the Islamic State terror group’s violence, including beheadings, is “deeply rooted in Islam,” which makes it “a hundred times more evil.” Jawad Al-Khoei also said that Christians were “the owners of this land, and the Muslims came here as their guests.”
Al-Khoei, who is the co-founder of the Iraqi Council for Interfaith Dialogue, said that while historically some violence in the Middle East is the result of oppressive dictatorships coupled with poverty and ignorance, much of it has its roots in religion. The Islamic State, therefore, is not an anomaly.
“It exploits religion,” said Al-Khoei.
“IS is deeply rooted in Islam. Its roots can be traced back 1,400 years, to the first century of Islam. When you read [Islamic] history, you find that people would kill someone, then exhume the body, cut off his head and then burn the body,” he said in the interview, which was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
The host of the BBC Arabic program then interjected, “But all nations experienced this kind of violence.”
Al-Khoei responded that when violence “dons the cloak of religion, it is a hundred times more evil.”
The Muslim scholar continued by saying that combating violence in the region is possible but will require “determination” and the “will of our rulers.”
He continues by blaming the education system in his home country of Iraq for being Muslim-centric and not promoting inclusiveness by teaching about other religions……
PABLO says
I can’t wait for Jawad Al-Khoei to be labelled Islamophobic and the subsequent outcry.
Shawn says
Shi’ites are usually more peaceful and tolerant than than sunnis. You never see shiites killing innocent people in the west. Their doctrine does have sharia and jihad and all that but it seems they dont emphasize it at all. Still need to be cautious with them though.
gravenimage says
Wel, there are those Iranians and theirIsrae screaming “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!”, hanging gay people from cranes, and stoning women to death? Not all that peaceful and tolerant, I’m afraid…
Shia in Iraq and Yemen are no better.
I think Shi’ites are just less of a threat to us over all because there are fewer of them than there are Sunnis.
Peter Buckley says
Here is the clip on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swaLEXJ3wuQ
JW readers can help to “send it viral” to anyone in the media still claiming that IS are “nothing to do with Islam”.
Don’t forget also that the world’s largest authority on Sunni Islam, Al Azhar Uiversity in Cairo, has publicly admitted that nothing ISIS have been doing can be called “unIslamic” and have refused to denounce the terrorist group:
raymondibrahim.com/2015/12/03/al-azhar-cannot-denounce-isis-of-being-un-islamic-even-if-isis-commits-every-atrocity/
Islam is collapsing, as predicted by Muhammad himself. Anyone who can educate just one muslim, or one Islamic apologist, about the true nature of the religion, can help to bring about the collapse just a fraction quicker……………
Eur says
Interfaith Activist? Where are they in Islamic countries? Wherever Islam commands, there is no freedom or dialogue, as long as periods of greater or lesser religious tolerance … until non-Muslims are exterminated.
Tom says
When the fundamentals of a religion are inherantly violent then the more fundamentalist its devotees are the more violent they become.
When the fundamentals of a religion are inherantly peaceful then the more fundamentalist its devotees are the more peaceful they become.
Example A: Islam … is it the former or the latter of the above statements?
It doesn’t take a genius to quickly conclude that Islam falls within the former statement and its preachers tell us so every day, the problem is whenever they do our “leaders” put their fingers in their ears and loudly say lalalalalalala …..
mortimer says
Christine Douglass-Williams has produced a fantastic list above. EVERYONE should memorize it!
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE ‘NARRATIVE’? (my title)
1. A bigotry of low expectations, in which any kind of bad and barbaric behaviour from visible minorities and foreigners is accepted as a matter of “tolerance.”
2. Selling the notion that the world revolves around colonialist/imperialist guilt, and that no one should dare interfere with this ironically leftist egocentric pity party.
3. The dismissal of anyone — including visible minorities — from open discussions about the importation of unacceptable practices via immigration, due to the presence of these unacceptable practices within certain cultures. Yet these practices should never be permitted to enter free and democratic societies. Many voiceless visible minorities themselves suffer the consequences of this, primarily women: FGM, forced marriage, honor killings, wife beatings, etc.
4. The failure to acknowledge that no organized religion today is more intolerant, non-pluralistic, misogynistic, and brutal today than normative Islam. Any Muslim who attempts to deviate from normative Islam is deemed an apostate and worthy of death. Interfaith dialogue sessions prefer to treat apostates as nonexistent.
5. The fact that black slavery still exists, but interfaith dialogues prefer to ignore the plight of blacks in Muslim nations in North Africa, where they are still deemed to be inferior in the modern age.
christianblood says
(..Shia interfaith activist admits: “Islamic State’s terror, beheadings deeply rooted in Islam..)
He is right. Shiites, which are about 8% of all muslims are generally far more moderate than Sunnis and Sunnis consider Shiites as “heretics” and derogatorily call them as”Nuseiris” and won’t hesitate to slaughter them all, if get the chance. Shiites are also a tough nut to crack warriors and they will rather die to than to submit to their Sunni/Wahabi/Takfiris. That is why you have the minority Houthi militia which are Yemeni Shiites fighting armies from Saudi Arabia, Gulf theocracies, and the rest of the Arab and Sunni world backed by the US, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Pakistan and the West winning and controlling more than half of Yemen, including the capital city. Also “Alawites” a Shiite sect of Assad, that run Syria for decades and which number about 3.5 million cannot be defeated by global Sunni mercenary jihadists directly backed by the US, Saudi Arabia, Nato, Oil-rich gulf states, Jordan, Turkey and others. Just to give you an example, how the Sunni Takfiris hate the Shiites, in a single week in the summer of 2014, when ISIS captured Mosul, Iraq, about 7 thousand Shiites, mostly Iraqi army and police members who surrendered and thousand of Shiites civilians working for the government in Mosul were massacred by ISIS and placed in mass-graves.
gravenimage says
Christianblood, you have never explained why you are fine with oppression of Christians in Iran, or why you have no problem with the Mullahs hanging gay people and stoning women to death. Really, they adhere to the same creed that Sunnis do in their hatred of Infidels, women, and the vulnerable.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Christine Williams, you are one of the most ignorant contributor at this site. Assuming some criminals among muslims did beheadings and mutilations of bodies, can you cite any Quranic verse or Hadith legalising such acts. Thé holy prophet muhammad said “Almuthlatu la tajuz(mutilation is prohibited)”.who can legalise It then ?
MFritz says
And you are a liar and a criminal. A whore who only speaks garbage for money. You have no shame and no honour. Go away, criminal. DON’T FEED THE TROLL! DON’T SUPPORT THE CRIMINAL!
Juhani says
Muhammed was a psychopath who did anything to satisfy his lust for sex, dominion and violence. Check this out: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx
If you want to know the exact opposite, get familiar with Jesus Christ.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Ibrahim means that Christine is one of the most accurate and incisive contributors to this site.
Ibrahim means that, because mohammad didn’t describe beheadings as being ‘mutilation’, it’s ok to behead people (so long as they are carefully judged to be in the appropriate category for which beheading is ‘legal’).
Sarah says
“Assuming some criminals among muslims did beheadings and mutilations of bodies, can you cite any Quranic verse or Hadith legalising such acts.”
Well yes, Ibrahim. Yes, we can.
Sahih Bukhari (52:261) – “[Muhammad] had their hands and feet cut off. Then he ordered for nails which were heated and passed over their eyes, and whey were left in the Harra (i.e. rocky land in Medina). They asked for water, and nobody provided them with water till they died.” Muhammad had two killers put to death, not in the way of “an eye-for-an-eye,” but in a more agonizing manner. (See also Sahih Bukhari 4:234) and Sahih Muslim (16:4131): “They were caught and brought to him (the Holy Prophet). He commanded about them, and (thus) hands and feet were cut off and their eyes were gouged and then they were thrown in the sun, until they died.”)
That sounds like mutilation to me.
Ibn Ishaq 764 – The apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr bin al-Awwam, “Torture him until you extract what he has.” So he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad bin Maslama and he struck off his head.”
That sounds like beheading to me.
Or there is Ibn Ishaq 980 – wherein Mohammed ordered an elderly woman to have her limbs tied to camels and the camels then sent in opposite directions – she got ripped apart.
Sounds like mutilation to me.
Quran (5:33) – “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides…”
More mutilation!
Quran (8:12) – “Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): “I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their fingertips off them.”
And even more mutilation- AND beheading!
Or perhaps you meant mutilation in terms of Female Genital Mutilation?
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal 5:75; Abu Dawud, Adab 167: “Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honour for women.”
or
“Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the clitoris (this is called Hufaad)” As stated by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri.
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Face it Ibrahim. This is your religion. Your religion is sickening. It is nothing more than the means to which that savage warmongering pedophile Prophet of yours, used to gain power and fulfil his greed for wealth, war, women and victory. And you unimaginably stupid people get down on a rug 5 times a day, every single day of your misbegotten lives and devote yourselves to this ridiculous ‘religion’ when the reality is, it was nothing more than a load of total camel shit dreamt up by that lunatic to get him what he desired.
More fool you and every other idiot Muslim out there.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Christine Williams, you are one of the most ignorant contributor at this site.
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Actually, Ms. Douglass Williams was quoting one of Ibrahim itace muhammed’s coreligonists. Perhaps he should take it up with him?
More:
Assuming some criminals among muslims did beheadings and mutilations of bodies, can you cite any Quranic verse or Hadith legalising such acts. Thé holy prophet muhammad said “Almuthlatu la tajuz(mutilation is prohibited)”.who can legalise It then ?
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What claptrap. The Qur’an and Hadith are rife with beheadings. In fact, the “Prophet” himself regularly beheaded his victims, including up to 900 unarmed Jews.
Here’s Qur’an 8:12 (Al Anfal, the Spoils of War):
“When thy Lord inspired the angels, (saying): I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite the necks and smite of them each finger.”
“Smiting the necks” is beheading.
And here is one Hadith:
“Abu Burdah said:
A man who turned back from Islam was brought to Abu Musa. He invited him to repent for twenty days or about so. Muadh then came and invited him (to embrace Islam) but he refused. So he was beheaded.”
–Sunan Abi Dawud 4356
There are many more. Moreover, beheading is rife in the Muslim world. In Riyadh there is the infamous “Chop Chop Square”, where victims are beheaded every Friday. The Islamic State loved beheading, often having children cut the throats of victims. Iran has also beheaded victims.
If Ibrahim itace muhammed *really* objected to this and considered it un-Islamic, he would take it up with his fellow Muslims, rather than lying to the good Infidels here at Jihad Watch.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Leftruinigcanada, ï am saying there is no mode of punishment under sharia known as beheading a culprit or mutilating his dead body. Christine Williams May have came accross a heinous act by one wicked Abbasid caliph Who exhumed dead bodies of ummaiyads and mutilated them and called It “Islamic texts”justifying the horrible act, while the holy prophet muhammad explicitly prohibited it and all muslims scholars agreed on that. Christine Williams May not understand the point the shiit imam was making due to ignorance about Islamic history.
John Hawk says
Good to hear from you, Ibrahim. I see Shaitan Muhammad still has his filthy claws embedded in you. Fear not, Ibrahim, Shaitan Muhammad and his psychotic projection Allah are always in the market for another rotten corpse to stoke the fires of Hell. Better buy an asbestos suit, though it won’t help much.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
John, you and your god the Satan you Call holy spirit Will be casted into hottest lake of hellfire burning forever
LeftisruiningCanada says
But that isn’t what the article was saying, Ibrahim. Where did anyone claim that beheadings were a “mode of punishment under sharia”?
Nobody said that.
Jawad Al-Khoei said that beheading is “deeply rooted in islam”.
Which it is, obviously.
You know this to be true, which is why you are trying to cloud the issue.
Do you think it’s wrong to behead captives taken in jihad?
Don’t you yourself want to behead Jews and be just like mohammad?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Leftruinigcanada, you lied. prophet muhammad never ordered the beheading of any jew after he was captured in jîhad fighting.
LeftisruiningCanada says
What? You can’t be serious Ibrahim.
And where did i say mohammad ordered the beheadings?
Ibn Ishaq seems to think he did it himself:
https://archive.org/stream/TheLifeOfMohammedGuillaume/The_Life_Of_Mohammed_Guillaume#page/n256/mode/1up
Is that what you were protesting about?
LeftisruiningCanada says
No reply from Ibrahim. No surprise.
Rarely have i seen a more cowardly and dishonest person, even on the internet.
gravenimage. says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Leftruinigcanada, ï am saying there is no mode of punishment under sharia known as beheading a culprit or mutilating his dead body. Christine Williams May have came accross a heinous act by one wicked Abbasid caliph Who exhumed dead bodies of ummaiyads and mutilated them and called It “Islamic texts”justifying the horrible act, while the holy prophet muhammad explicitly prohibited it and all muslims scholars agreed on that. Christine Williams May not understand the point the shiit imam was making due to ignorance about Islamic history.
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Gee, is that so? Muslim regimes have beheaded their victims *for centuries*. The was not “one wicked Abbasid caliph”. Iran has beheaded victims. Saudi Arabia *regularly* beheads people–to the extent that the execution ground is known as “Chop Chop Square”. The Islamic State regularly cut victim’s throats and beheaded them.
Beheading remains on the books in Qatar and Yemen.
The Ottomam Empire used beheading as its main form of execution. Saladin personally beheaded Christian knight Raynald of Châtillon.
The Ottoman Empire invaded and laid siege to the Italian city of Otranto and its citadel in 1480. After capture, more than 800 of its inhabitants – who refused to convert to Islam – were beheaded.
I already quoted Qur’an 8:12 elsewhere on this thread; there is also Qur’an 47:4:
“Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of the necks until, when ye have routed them, making fast of bonds; and afterward either grace or ransom ’til the war lay down its burdens.”
As noted, the “Prophet” Muhammed himself had up to 900 unarmed Jewish men and boys of the Banu Qurayza tribe beheaded.
Jihadists in Chechnya beheaded captured Russian soldiersAl Qaida Jihadists beheaded journalist Daniel Pearl. Jihadists in southern Thailand behead their victims. ISIS beheaded thirty Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
Beheading is so popular with pious Muslims that beheading videos are all the rage with Ibrahim itace muhammed’s coreligionists. These are often used as recruiting tools for Jihadists.
Other forms of mutilation are rife in Islam, as well–most notably, mutilating little girls with FGM and amputating the limbs of petty theives.
This is practiced under Shari’ah law in Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Ibrahim itace muhammed’s *own Nigeria*.
“The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter”
–Qur’an 5:33
“As to the thief, Male or female, cut off his or her hands: a punishment by way of example, from Allah, for their crime: and Allah is Exalted in power.”
–Qur’an 5:38
Ibrahim itace muhammed’s denial of this is just ludicrous.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Good one GI.
LeftisruiningCanada says
aaand no reply as usual from Ibrahim
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Juhani, you have gone mad like savage mad devil Trump due to possession by the Satan christians Call holy spirit. True jesus has nothing to do with your mithraist christianity of Godman and begotten son of God inspired by the Satan. You and holy spirit Will be casted into hottest lake of hellfire burning.
Peter Buckley says
Who, according to Quran, was Jesus’ father?
Please read your Quran 21:91 and tell us all who Jesus father is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKj4HdDB3gI
Do you think this the main reason so many muslims are converting?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
peter, you are just an ignorant fool. Quran21:91 never suggests that God was jesus’ father. your pagan mithraist christianity is appealing to beasts only.
Peter Buckley says
Quran 21:91
And (remember) her who guarded her chastity: WE breathed into her of OUR spirit, and We made her and her son a sign for all peoples.
So, according to Quran, Jesus was divine.
No wonder so many muslims converting:
gravenimage. says
As Islam sees it, “Jesus”–really, the appalling figure of “Isa”–is not the Savior, nor is he a healer or a peacemaker. Instead, his main role is to *slaughter Christians* in the last days.
Bacherbazistan says
Perhaps this article should be forwarded to Pope Francis, he might find it educational.
gravenimage says
Shia interfaith activist admits: “Islamic State’s terror, beheadings deeply rooted in Islam”
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He’s not wrong…
pfwag says
One has to be an absolute idiot to be any kind of Muslim and the Islam apologists posting here prove it.
LeftisruiningCanada says
The lack of good muslims apologists here, where you would expect those brave soldiers of muhammad to appear en masse, is interesting isnt it?
gravenimage. says
Yep. No wonder Muslims turn to violence–they have no logical arguments to make.
Guy Forester says
If he is married, I hope he has a good life insurance policy. Either way, I think he needs to buy level 4 body armor.
kuriakose says
The solution, Mr Jawad Al-Khoei, is to abandon islam and relegate it to the dustbin of history. I suggest you study the teachings of Christ and become a Christian.
Seems to me, a number of Shiite clerics are trying to show themselves as the tolerant face of islam and win the turf war against the sunnis..
Santa Voorhees says
The left told me that whoever tries to expose the problem with Islam is a nazi. Therefore Jawad Al-Khoei is clearly a nazi…. uhm… no, that can’t be right.
anon says