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A Remarkably Revealing Incident In Australia

Nov 20, 2018 11:07 am By Philip Haney

Fiqh Us-Sunnah (PDF searchable file)

Background

On November 15, 2018, the Daily Mail Australia published an article entitled Muslim Imam Discovers Sharia Law Book Preaching Jihad And Hostage Taking In Melbourne Airport Islamic Prayer Room. On November 17, 2018, the same article was highlighted in Jihad Watch, under the title of Sharia Manual Preaching Jihad Warfare And Hostage Taking Found In Airport Prayer Room.

The Daily Mail Australia article provides a cache of intriguing details about an incident that happened in the Muslim prayer room at the Melbourne, Australia international airport, which also happens to be the second busiest airport in the country.

In the article, we find that, shortly before boarding his flight, Imam Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi [= Oneness of Allah], an Iranian-born Shia scholar who openly campaigns against Islamic extremism, found an Arabic language Shariah manual entitled Fiqh Us-Sunnah [= The Law and The Way] in the prayer room.

As we also discover, the Adelaide-based leader and author, who is known in Australia as the ‘Imam of Peace,’ made a video of himself flicking through the index of Fiqh Us-Sunnah, while pointing out alarming references to [1] jihad, [2] ‘taking hostages at war’ and [3] taxing ‘infidel’ non-Muslims (see details below).

We also learned that Imam Tawhidi told the Daily Mail Australia reporter that this fundamentalist Sunni Islamic law book had the potential to ‘certainly radicalise someone,’ and that ‘It can turn a regular traveller or a frustrated, vulnerable traveller into an extremist,’ while adding that ‘It goes against national security.’

Furthermore, Sheikh Tawhidi stated that Fiqh Us-Sunnah was possibly planted by an activist, that Melbourne airport authorities needed to ‘take action,’ and that ‘It’s not a one-off matter. The Muslim community should use the liberties in Australia, the freedoms here, to side with the police against the radicals.’

And take action they did!

Several hours later, Melbourne Airport officials tweeted Sheikh Tawhidi to confirm that they had removed Fiqh Us-Sunnah, written by the well-known Egyptian Sunni Islamic scholar As-Sayyid Sabiq, while adding ‘Thanks for your message. We have a publicly accessible multi-faith prayer room open to travellers of various religions. The book has been removed for assessment of its suitability.’

At the close of the article in the Daily Mail Australia, we are also informed by the reporter that Fiqh Us-Sunnah is actually a ‘book about the practices of the Prophet Mohammad‘ [= Sunnah], that ‘was authored by a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood [As-Sayyid Sabiq], a pan Islamist group campaigning for a global Islamic caliphate‘ (see more on this below).

It is also important to note that this incident took place in the immediate aftermath of a November 9, 2018 terrorist attack by Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, a Somali-born, ISIS-linked Sunni Muslim who was shot dead by police after killing popular 74-year-old restaurateur Sisto Malaspina, and knifing two others in downtown Melbourne.

Discussion

This incident is remarkably revealing for several reasons.

First: Imam Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi put his own life at risk by informing Melbourne Airport authorities about the copy of Fiqh Us Sunnah that he found in the Muslim prayer room. According the Daily Mail Australia article, he actually ‘asked for his travel plans to be kept secret, following threats to his life from Islamic extremists.’

Imam Tawhidi should certainly be commended for his refreshing courage and honesty (i.e., If You See Something, Say Something), but it also casts a spotlight on an ominous, unavoidable dilemma for [1] Muslim leaders like him, as well as for [2] the global Islamic community, and for [3] Law Enforcement and Counter Terrorism authorities around the world.

Second: According to Imam Sheikh Tawhidi, Fiqh Us-Sunnah literally ‘goes against national security.’

If they accept this statement as correct, how are authorities in Australia (and the rest of the non-Islamic world) supposed to respond to this warning, especially since, as you’ll see from reading the excerpts cited below, Fiqh Us-Sunnah is completely mainstream, well-established orthodox Islamic law. Fiqh Us-Sunnah is not some clandestine underground leaflet, published secretly behind closed doors by members of an outlawed organization, but is accepted as authoritative everywhere in the world.

If Fiqh Us-Sunnah really represents a threat to national security, then how are those in authority (and the general public) supposed to respond?

Third: Imam Tawhidi also declared that a copy of Fiqh Us Sunnah may have been placed in the prayer room by ‘an activist.’

What does Sheikh Mohammad mean by ‘activist‘? Did he really intend to imply that anyone who follows the orthodox Shariah found in Fiqh Us Sunnah (and other similar books, such as The Reliance of the Traveller) is an activist, i.e., a dangerous Islamic radical, who poses a real threat to national security?

Fourth: Although there is a well-known history of conflict and tension between the Shia and Sunni branches of Islam, Shia and Sunni scholars all study the same schools of Fiqh, and agree on a majority of what is found in Shariah (including in Fiqh Us-Sunnah), not to mention the Quran and the Hadith.

How does Imam Tawhidi reconcile the reality of this Shia-Sunni unity, with his decision to characterize the Muslim Brotherhood-endorsed Shariah manual known as Fiqh Us-Sunnah as so ‘toxic’ that merely coming across it in an airport prayer room could ‘certainly radicalise someone,’ and/or ‘turn a regular traveller or a frustrated, vulnerable traveller into an extremist’?

In Islam, this is called Fitnah (= Confusing truth with falsehood & unbelief). It is actually a capital offense, and puts Imam Tawhidi in a very dangerous position (for example, see Quran 2.191). Will he need protection for his public statments about Fiqh Us-Sunnah?

Fifth: Now that the already well-known Shariah manual, Fiqh Us-Sunnah, has been brought further into public light, i.e., to the attention of non-Muslim authorities in Australia, an incredible paradox (dilemma) is also revealed. The problem is, from an Islamic perspective, Fiqh Us-Sunnah is anything but extreme or radical. Muslims will never stop reading and studying Fiqh Us-Sunnah, or Shariah books like it.

Fiqh Us-Sunnah is one of the most widely read ‘mainstream’ Shariah manuals in the entire Sunni (and Shia) Islamic world; in fact, anyone can easily buy it today on Amazon! If Imam Tawhidi is correct, then the real problem we face is…Shariah itself!

Sixth: As with Fiqh Us-Sunnah, the author As-Sayyid Sabiq is anything but dangerous, extreme, or radical (from an Islamic perspective). Not only Brother Sabiq a highly regarded mainstream Sunni scholar, who has been endorsed by the global Muslim Brotherhood organization, but he was also a Jihadi, who is honored and respected throughout the Islamic world.

As found in this Google Review (also here):

As-Sayyid Sabiq’s book has since been translated into dozens of languages and is used by Muslims throughout the world. He wrote the book at the request of Ustadh [= The Honorable] Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Every Fiqh ruling in the book goes back to the Quran and Sunnah, and Sabiq dealt with all four Madhahib [= Schools of Thought Within Fiqh] objectively, with no preferential treatment to any. Besides his academic work, Sabiq was a noted Islamic activist, who…spent some time fighting along with the Mujahedeen [= Jihad Fighters] in Palestine in the late 1940’s.

Note: For other detailed, glowing reviews of As-Sayyid Sabiq, see here and here.

Seventh: Fiqh Us-Sunnah is endorsed, promoted and published by the Ahlulbayt Organization (AIM), which is also Shia, just like Imam Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi.

Note: Ahl Ul-Bayt means The People of the House of Islam

Conclusion – A Few Excerpts From Fiqh Us-Sunnah

In closing, we should address the question: Does the Fiqh Us-Sunnah actually have references to [1] jihad, [2] ‘taking hostages at war’ and [3] taxing ‘infidel’ non-Muslims?

The answer is an emphatic ‘Yes.’ Here are several screen captures from Fiqh Us-Sunnah for you to review:

[1] Jihad

From Page 44:

Note: Also see Page 160, 185, 221, 226, 229, 261, 366, 369, 446 for additional references to Jihad

From Page 94:

From Page 224:

[2] ‘Taking Hostages At War‘

From Page 223:

 

From Page 46:

[3] Taxing ‘Infidel’ Non-Muslims [= Jizyah & Kharaj]

From Page 202:

From Page 204:

 

From Page 231:

Note: The Shaf’iyyah is one of the four main schools of Fiqh

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Comments

  1. Buraq says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 11:26 am

    ……….. Brother Sabiq (is) a highly regarded mainstream Sunni scholar, ………

    The ‘g’ in regarded should be replaced by a ‘t’. Clown!

    • b.a. freeman says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 5:08 pm

      sarcasm, my friend!

      i must admit, however, that on occasion, i get really worked up by events, and misread an article or a comment. the internet is strewn with such mistakes of mine!

  2. Transcendent says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 11:39 am

    I got a malware warning from Avast when accessing this PDF, or the website.

    • PBH says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 12:45 pm

      I tried opening the link to Fiqh Us-Sunnah on my phone, and it popped right up.
      PBH

  3. somehistory says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 11:51 am

    Very interesting. Would this imam who found the book leave islam if he could do so and stay alive?

    Those authorities who are involved in hostage negotiations, a course I took, should have someone who has read the book with accuracy advise them of what the “hostage taker” is told to do.

    Hostage situations are one of the most dangerous for victims and police alike. If all moslims read this book, as the article says, then those on the side of law and order need to know what is written too.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 21, 2018 at 12:41 am

      Tawhidi seems to be mostly a Shia supremacist. I don’t think a self-proclaimed “Sheikh” and “Imam” is apt to leave Islam any time soon.

      I’m very glad that he pointed out this book–but I consider him an equivocal figure at best.

      • somehistory says

        Nov 21, 2018 at 4:40 pm

        I didn’t seriously consider that he would leave, but if he did, he would be in the same danger as others who have. The fact that he can say what he did, but then wanted to leave without anyone knowing where he was going, says something about the danger that he could be in if he did plan to leave after exposing the “truth” of what islam is all about Many do not want the truth to be so obviously exposed.

  4. Angemon says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 12:01 pm

    Seventh: Fiqh Us-Sunnah is endorsed, promoted and published by the Ahlulbayt Organization (AIM), which is also Shia, just like Imam Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi.

    And exactly how many Australians reading the DMA – or any other news outlet reporting on that event – would know that? My bet is very, very, very few – for the overwhelming majority, they’d just go on about their daily lives thinking “gosh, I’m glad we have this nive muslim fellow looking out for us. What’s his brand of islam again?”. It’s no accident that taqqyiah is a specifically shia doctrine (yes, I know, sunnis are allowed to work in fundamentally identical fashion)…

  5. FYI says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 12:21 pm

    Meanwhile, That ‘holy’ koran of Imam Tawlheadi…literally “goes against GLOBAL security”.

    Everwhere you go today,that “religion of peace” brings with it, its evil,its immoral Godless nature,its violence and its bigotry.

    Let’s remember those islamic dissembling tricks….like for example, a nice muslim cleric telling us how much he opposes islamic fanaticism whilst cunningly promoting the falsehods of islam{if that’s so..then leave islam with ist false god,”allah the best of deceivers” k3:54,its demonic false prophet {al tabari 6-111} and its false ‘holy’ book}

    A perfect cover for deception!

    The islamic art of Bearing FALSE Witness.

    tawriya intentional ambiguity
    taysin deceit through facilitation
    taqqiya intentional lying to promote islam
    muruna temporary suspension of sharia
    darura deceit through necessity
    kitman omission to tell the truth

    • Lilith Wept says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 1:06 pm

      Basically if it will “ spread Islam” or it is “ fighting in the way of Allah” and it’s to a kuffar ( not a fellow Moslem) then Moslems can do virtually anything. Even claim to not be moslems and eat pork, drink alcohol etc.
      That Islam has specific terms for these kinds of deception shows it’s institutalized in Islam, both Sunni and Shia.
      I can’t remember if there is anything moslems can NOT do if it’s spreading Islam or fighting in the way of Allah……
      Look at the Stealth Jihad they are doing in the US and Britain ……
      If you know of anything that moslems can’t do I ntheir ate,pots to subjicate all non moslems and non Islamic countries, then please post it!

      • R Russell says

        Nov 21, 2018 at 7:44 am

        Worth reading
        https://z3news.com/w/avi-lipkin-churches-infiltrated-muslim-spies/

  6. Guy Forester says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    Very thorough posting Mr. Haney. I hope that he posts articles here more often.

    For those of you not familiar with Mr. Haney, he was in DHS and part of the group that was tasked with identifying potential terrorists. He was so good at this, that he was ordered by the BHO admin to scrub all of his files as they tended to point in a certain direction, if you get what I mean. He ended up retiring as he was basically pigeon holed and not able to function. That is the condensed version. You can search this on line and verify this.

    BTW, it seems that some people get into these rather complex theories of why and how certain terrorist attacks have happened. While it is not a perfect method of interpreting things that happen, I tend to be in the Occam’s Razor school of thought. That is, “Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.” In other words, from what I have seen in life, for certain bad things to happen, all we need is for the people with the knowledge and ability to stop it simply need to do NOTHING. Just let it happen and then with plausible deniability say that “We did not know, how could we have stopped it?”

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 21, 2018 at 12:47 am

      Thank you, Guy.

      • Guy Forester says

        Nov 21, 2018 at 3:22 am

        🙂

  7. Robert Carrillo says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 2:15 pm

    Funny how one particular group of people on this planet are always involved in this sort of behavior pattern..

    Well, maybe not so funny after all..

  8. overman says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 2:35 pm

    Yeah, this is the lmam (tawhidi) who says that aisha, mo’s child bride, was actually 21 – tawhidi goes into this in the video below. Apparently, lf l understand correctly, aisha’s age had to be pushed back to six in order to make her pure in the sense of ‘virginal’, aka virgin mary status. Obviously, tawhidi is trying to clean up mohammed’s image as a pedophilia.
    Also, is he telling us that he’s never seen Fiqh Us-Sunnah in an airport muslim prayer-room before? Come on.

    • FYI says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 5:31 pm

      The islamic taqqiya merchants are busy sanitizing islam:the way they work reminds me a bit of the Good cop-Bad cop gambit used by police officers.

      They are both on the SAME side working for the SAME goal.

      With the taqqiya{-tawriya-taysin-kitman-muruna-darura} bag of islamic dissembling tricks they use,the muslim apologists play a similar sort of game to Good cop-Bad cop.

      Nice muslim-insane muslim…….or perhaps……. insane muslim,less insane muslim

      The concept of bearing FALSE WITNESS does not appear to exist in islam:the fact that there is an actual commandment of God{EXODUS 20}that condemns such blatant lying would,of course,be lost on muslims.
      {As are ALL the other official Commandments of God…we see the results EVERY day}

      • Haller says

        Nov 20, 2018 at 10:08 pm

        Good cop , bad cop gambit is the perfect analogy for Islam’s necessary deception. It’s designed to keep the kaffirs continually off balance, while they go about removing all our defenses, until the day comes when they have their foot on our collective head and their swords raised for the killing blow. Extremist Islam, radical Islam, tautologies that are fed to the foolish, but are decoys.
        All Muslims follow the five pillars of Islam, meaning that they all think the same. How they act at any given moment is their individual choice, but consensus will lead to action to establish the primacy of Islam at whatever the cost to all and sundry who are outside the “protection” of Islam. This is their wholly consuming and primary, paranoid obsession. They never know if what they have done for Islam is going to get them across the line to paradise and so they live every moment of their miserable lives in a fear and ignorance free fall. Karma(intention, action) and it’s commensurate result(Vipaka) feed the unbroken circle of becoming(more of the same) with the individual’s dominant motivation, in this case,fear and ignorance. What good can come of it? The principle is identical for all people, whether athiest, calathumpian or hottentot.

  9. Chris says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 3:08 pm

    If Islam gets reformed – there is no Islam left. And that is why there will be no reform,

    • b.a. freeman says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 6:28 pm

      muhammed is considered the perfect man, and is therefore the model of conduct for all muslims. this is in the quran – the unchangeable word of allah – so that all muslims know where to look for exemplary muslim behavior. if we examine all the rackets muhammed was into – slavery, sex slavery, mass murder of unarmed innocents, assassination, rape, child molestation, accepting stolen property (20% of “booty” went to allah’s messenger), etc., we can only conclude that the man was a psychopath. if muhammed was indeed a horrible person, however, then allah got it wrong in the quran, he’s a fake god, and islam falls apart completely. therefore, islam can *NEVER* be reformed.

      +1

      • joe Seco says

        Nov 20, 2018 at 7:16 pm

        Freeman, I agree entirely with you, We must inform and educate as many as we can. It is worrisome, that the media, our educational system, Hollywood, and many liberal democrats, or whatever they are, remain defensive and supportive of this human disgrace that affects our world currently. No question in my mind, that the teachings (starting at a very young age) are dangerous. They are the opposite of what Christ, Buddha, and many other Great Ones, taught us for centuries.
        J. Seco

  10. Chris says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 3:17 pm

    Publicising the fact that this war manual is available at any airport….its name and attributes…

  11. Ej says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 5:08 am

    Check out Imam Tawhidi’s Twitter feed ( @ImamOfPeace ) and you’ll understand that he is, in fact, an ally of ours on the side of peace, actively rejecting Islamic terrorism in any and all forms. He risks his very existence to do so. His new book is also due out very soon and can be pre-ordered from Amazon.

  12. Sam says

    Nov 22, 2018 at 5:33 am

    Imam Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi is another “reformer” who dangers humanity by whitewashing Islam. These people confuse infidels indicating that there is a “good” Islam somewhere there which nobody ever has seen, sees, or will see.

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