What could possibly go wrong? It’s a religion of peace!
“‘It could certainly radicalise someone’: Muslim imam discovers Sharia law book preaching jihad and hostage taking in Melbourne airport Islamic prayer room,” by Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail Australia, November 15, 2018:
A Muslim imam has discovered a Sharia law book advocating jihad and hostage taking in Melbourne international airport’s Islamic prayer room.
Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi, a Shia imam who campaigns against Islamic extremism, saw the Arabic language book shortly before boarding a flight.
The Adelaide-based Shia religious leader and author made a video of himself flicking through the index, which featured references to jihad, ‘taking hostages at war’ and taxing ‘infidel’ non-Muslims.
Shortly before boarding his flight, he told Daily Mail Australia a fundamentalist Sunni Islamic law book had the potential to ‘certainly radicalise someone’.
‘It can turn a regular traveller or a frustrated, vulnerable traveller into an extremist,’ he said, shortly after midday on Thursday. ‘It goes against national security.’
Sheikh Tawhidi said that while the book of Islamic jurisprudence was possibly planted by an activist, Melbourne airport needed to ‘take action’.
Several hours later, Melbourne Airport tweeted to Sheikh Tawhidi to confirm they had removed the Arabic language book, Fiqh us-Sunnah, by Egyptian Sunni Islamic scholar As-Sayyid Sabiq.
‘Thanks for your message. We have a publicly accessible multi-faith prayer room open to travellers of various religions,’ it said.
‘The book has been removed for assessment of its suitability.’
The book about the practices of the Prophet Mohammad was authored by a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Sunni Islamist group campaigning for a global Islamic caliphate….
Mac-101 says
A real MODERATE? Or just gaining some cred as a MODERATE as he plans some nefarious actions? I pray he is a TRUE moderate!
mortimer says
And Mac, I *pray* you will do some research someday before you lazily post your SPONTANEOUS, uninformed opinions about everything. Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi is a very vociferous, genuine reformer. He is making a lot of Muslims question what they have been taught. He is not popular with other mullahs and he has received many death threats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmcCmjhO8KQ
Mac-101 says
Thankfully I do not have to have your permission to post. I pray that he is a Moderate and can reform Islam. However, as you well know Islam is based on Terror and Mohammad was “The most Perfect of Men from the most Perfect of Tribes” to be emulated as much as possible down to how to pee and wipe your butt. . We ALL know what Mohammed did on a regular basis.
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So it seems impossible for a person to be a Muslim and believe in Western Values. If nothing else every Muslim MUST work at establishing the Caliphate and implementing Sharia Law world wide. If not, they are not a True Muslim!
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Just like the Pope, is he a total sell out to the Globalist decreeing that one does NOT have to believe in Jesus Christ to go to Heaven. He evidently doesn’t believe in the Good Book no more than Piglosie!
carpediadem says
Re your point re “Globalist decreeing that one does NOT have to believe in Jesus Christ to go to Heaven. .”
No you DON’T.
In Judaism you will get to heaven if you are a righteous person, regardless of your religion.
Plenty of religions who believe in heaven are not Jesus-based. This incessant Christian narcissism is offensive.
Mac-101 says
Carpediadem: I find it amusing that you are offended by my belief. It is stated at least 4 times in the Scriptures that the only way to the FATHER is through the SON. The Pope is in charge of leadin his Flock. If he does NOT believe his Book then what good is he? Just like a Moderate Muslim who does NOT believe in the Quran and Jihad can NOT be a good Muslim! .
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I could care less what you or a Buddhist or Hindu or Atheist or anyone else believes so long as they follow the Golden Rule. The Best I know Islam is the only religion that does NOT and wants to KILL me. So that offends me. Nothin else does. We’ll figure out da rest once we cross da River !
gravenimage says
Well, I’m glad that Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi pointed out this manual. But he is a rather equivocal figure–Mac is not altogether wrong here.
He is not recognized by any other Muslims as a Sheikh or an Imam, and is not associated with any Mosque.
He also appears to be a Shia Twelver supremacist–the same sect as the Mullahs in Iran. At times he seems to be more anti-Sunni than actually anti-Jihad.
he may be sincere–or he may mostly just be jockeying to get his own sect recognized as “true” Islam.
David Davies says
I thought he came from or is involved with the mosque on Marion Rd….South of Adelade….South Australia
Dale says
He is a moderate, his name on twitter is Imam of peace and he is against all acts of terror, violence and Sharia law.
gravenimage says
Yeah–he calls himself the “Imam of Peace”, but has also said things like this, when there was a rumor that someone pulled the headscarf off a Muslim woman:
“If government laws do not prevent such assaults, then I fear that a day will come where the Muslim community might take matters into their own hands to protect their women and mothers.”
Zuhdi Jasser–another would-be Islamic reformer–said that Tawhidi was not a reformist but instead subscribed to “a nefarious interpretation of Shia Islam.”
Again, he is a rather equivocal figure.
Allan Thomas says
I think he is a true moderate, BUT…….
Mary says
Isn’t it just terrible that we can’t believe that 1 Muslim could be moderate.
Mac-101 says
Well we have the Pope. He is a moderate Christian. He even says one does NOT have to believe in Jesus Christ to go to heaven and to embrace Islam. This Inman is goin against the Quran as the Pope is goin against the Bible.
carpediadem says
Only the Christian BIble.
The Jewish Bible does not need people to believe in Judaism to get to heaven.
Mac-101 says
You be one hard head individual. The POPE is supposed to Preach Christianity from HIS Bible. Inman’s preach from their Quran and Hadiths. You can study your Torah and Talmud. I don’t expect you to follow my beliefs nor should I yours. How hard is dat? The problem with ISLAM is THEY have to kill you for THEIR beliefs. Got IT?
gravenimage says
If by “moderate” you mean rejecting all the texts and tenets of Islam, this is indeed somewhat problematic.
Mac-101 says
Exactly.
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You gave a good description/narrative on the Russian Military question I brought up in a previous article. Thank You.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Mac.
Mac-101 says
Gravin, I always enjoy stimulatin posts. As I’ve said many times before, I believe nothing I read and Only half what I see. I enjoy readin and hearin many different sides, many at an angel of the topic that does NOT address it as we are to ferret out da truth.
Angemon says
Yes, I can already imagine a naive, bright-eyed, 19-ish year old young adult, brimming with the desire to travel and see the whole world casually stumbling upon said book and, after reading a couple of pages, suddenly growing a beard – but no moustache – and shouting “death to America!!! Death to the West!!! Long live the caliphate!!! Jihad for the sake of allah!!!!!!!!!”… Let’s face it, the only ones in danger of being “radicalised” by that sort of book are people who already believe part of it to begin with.
I have an alternate theory: the imam saw the book, suspected a trap and decided to play the good guy in front of the alleged cameras. Assuming, of course, he didn’t simply plant the book himself…
mortimer says
Angemon, the mustache must be clipped.
Narrated Nafi’: “Ibn Umar said, The Prophet said, ‘Do the opposite of what the pagans do. Keep the beards and cut the moustaches short.’ Whenever Ibn ‘Umar performed the Hajj or ‘Umra, he used to hold his beard with his hand and cut whatever moustaches. Ibn Umar used to cut his moustache so short that the whiteness of his skin (above the upper lip) was visible, and he used to cut (the hair) between his moustaches and his beard. (Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Dress, Volume 7, Book 72, Number 780)”
Mohammed didn’t want his followers to look like the dirty KUFAAR for military, security and cultural reasons. By making it easier for Muslims to distinguish each others easily in battle and on the street, it would certainly enforce safety and security among them. By focussing on small distinctions, Mohammed created a ‘look’ for his followers to alienate and separate them from their non-Muslim relatives. This ‘look’ is part of Islamic APARTHEID.
Lilith Wept says
I agree . Mohammed declared war on everything not Islam when he called Islam “Dar al Islam “ house of Islam and everyone , and everything else as “Dar al Harb” house of war. .
He intended that moslems look,, eat and behave and even think different from non moslems. That was to creat this insular feeling of brotherhood and sameness among all moslems no matter where they orginally came from, , to creat an identity as being “Moslem” and that being recognizablely different from all non moslems and to make everyone else look alien and dehumanize everyone else …This makes it easier to kill someone you don’t see as even being human. And we all know that react badly to those they see as “different”. The Koran even tells moslems thatbmoslems are the best of people and non moslems are filthy, worse than animals.
Joni says
Islam is not a religion, but a theocracy! Which means, in any sovereign nation, it should not be allowed. It is a type of government! For gosh sake, people better wake up, before they “take over”, from the inside out! They are evil. I repeat, ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION, BUT A THEOCRACY!
mortimer says
Joni, we should stop judging Islam by Western categories that don’t fit. ‘DEEN’ does not mean ‘religion’, but a ‘SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE’ or a ‘SYSTEM OF LAWS’.
The Koran calls Islam a ‘DEEN’.
DEFINITION of DIN. Din or deen is an Arabic word often mistranslated as “creed” or “religion”. “Din” is a word that features heavily in Islam. Both mainstream and reformist Muslim writers take the word ‘deen’ to mean an all-encompassing WAY OF LIFE carried out under the auspices of Allah’s purpose as expressed in the Qur’an and hadiths. As one ‘progressive’ Muslim writer puts it, far from being a private aspect of life discretely carried out in the mosque, “Islam is Dīn, a complete way of life”.
The term Dīn gained popularity in Arabia and the Greater Middle East after the advent of Islam. The term has Semitic cognates including the Hebrew “dīn” (דין), Aramaic dīnā (דִּינָא), Amharic dañä (ዳኘ) and Ugaritic dyn. It may be the root of the common Semitic word Madīnah (city), and of Midian, a geographical place and a people mentioned in the Bible and in the Qur’an. ME-DIN-A is literally ‘the place of governance’ as the capital of the empire of Arabia.
The Hebrew term “דין”, transliterated as “dīn”, means either “law” or “judgment”. In the Kabbalah of Judaism, the term can, alongside “Gevurah” (cognate to the Arabic “Jabaarah”), refer to “power” and “judgment”. In ancient Israel, the term featured heavily in administrative and legal proceedings i.e. Bet Din, literally “the house of judgment,” the ancient building block of the Jewish legal system. Thus, Arabic Dīn does not simply mean “religion” or “faith”, but may in a broad sense refer to “governance”.
It has been said that the word Dīn appears in as many as 79 verses in the Qur’an, but because there is no exact English translation of the term, its precise definition has been the subject of some misunderstanding and disagreement. Consequently, the term is often mistranslated in parts of the Qur’an as “religion”. However, in the Qur’an itself, the act of submission to God is always referred to as Dīn rather than as Madhhab (مذهب), which is the Arabic word for “religion”
In addition to the two broad usages referred to so far, of sovereignty on the one hand and submission on the other, others have noted that the term Dīn is also widely used in translations of the Qur’an in a third sense. Most famously in its opening chapter, al-Fātiḥah, the term is translated in almost all English translations as “judgment”:
K.1.4. transliterated as “Maliki yawmi ad-Dīni,” and (usually) translated as “Master of the Day of Judgment”.
mortimer says
Yes. Airplanes, jihad-terrorism, Islamic prayer, supremacism and Allah Akbar all go together … don’t they?
The prescribed Islamic prayers include a prayer that curses Jews and Christians … Muslims recite this 17 times a day to keep their hatred towards Jews and Christians at the ignition temperature.
As we see, it often takes a little spark to start the FIRE of BLAZING JIHAD already hot in the heart of praying Muslims.
We need to ask Muslims how they know when they hate the kafirs ‘enough’ to be pleasing to Allah.
mortimer says
HERE’S THE POINT for dopey DHIMMIS … the author of this book, PROFESSOR SAYYID SABIQ was WELL-INFORMED about Islam … he taught Islamic studies at the TOP ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY, Al Azhar. The book is NORMATIVE Islam… and *not* extremist.
Scholar Sayyid Sabiq wrote Fiqh As-Sunnah in the 1940s when he was only 30 years old. He wrote the book at the request of Ustadh Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Every Fiqh ruling in the book goes back to the Qur’an and Sunnah and Sabiq dealt with all four madhahib objectively, with no preferential treatment to any. Sabiq also wrote the book, “Islamic Theology,” along the same lines: simplification and avoidance of overphilosophization or getting involved in disputes on arcane topics. Besides his academic work, Sabiq was a noted Islamic activist. After writing Fiqh As-Sunnah, Sabiq spent some time fighting along with the Mujahideen in Palestine in the late 1940’s and he later visited most countries in the world and lectured in their mosques. He was the first graduate of Azhar to visit the Soviet Union and check on the conditions of Muslims there. Sabiq was born in 1915 in the Egyptian village, Istanha. He received his education at Al-Azhar and after his graduation worked as the Director of Mosques and Islamic Education in the Egyptian Islamic Affairs Ministry. He also taught at Al-Azhar, and later moved to Saudi Arabia, where he headed the Shari’a Graduate Studies Department in Um Al- Qura University. After moving back to Egypt, he spent years teaching students in a Mosque in Cairo
elee says
Thank you for taking the time and trouble to research these histories and share them with us. Please be gentle with those who come here before doing the same level of research. Just by appearing here Mac101 demonstrated that he’s smart enough to be concerned about this stuff and also skeptical of the mainstream “religion of peace” garbage. Being corrected by someone a shade more diligent and/or gifted at research shouldn’t come with public humiliation and name-calling. IMHO that’s not the most effective way to convey the threat that faces us. Oh and yes, BTW, there are Muslims who are dismayed at their own imams and at a lot of their heritage from other times and places. Distinguish I suppose between these voices and the terrorists. IMHO the problem is that the terrorists and their culture seem to be the true traditional and scriptural Muslims…..which is why a mainstream Muslim book is a public safety threat in ways that a dry mainstream treatise on Christian canon is not…….and also why the Islamic scripture would constitute a threat even if every Muslim became a “moderate,” and why every person of Muslim descent is a very real potential sleeper whose passing interest in family history and culture could turn him or her into a weapon. Oh and BTW, since you’ve obviously done your homework, did this imam get a piece of the Nazi subsidies for the Muslim Brotherhood?
Mac-101 says
A True Moderate Muslim who embraces Western Civilization would become an Apostate.
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Thanks, I lived several years in Islamic Paradises. I believe I know enough of THEIR culture to be disgusted and alarmed.
gravenimage says
Yes–that’s the book, Mortimer.
You can find a PDF here:
https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Fiqh-us-Sunnah1.pdf
A lot of the text just deals with eye-glazing matters such as Wu’du and prayer. I don’t actually recall exhortations to wage Jihad and kidnap Infidels in this text–but such preaching turns up everywhere in Islam.
CogitoErgoSum says
Prayer is communication with God. The thoughts within our minds are hidden from all except God. By focusing one’s thoughts on God any person may pray at any time in any place under any circumstances. Special rooms should not be provided and maintained as public facilities since they reinforce a form of mental illness known as obsessive compulsive disorder.
elee says
I like your thinking but have to disagree. If Muslim facilities draw potential and actual terrorists like a magnet draws iron, shouldn’t we maintain penetrate and surveil them?
Anjuli Pandavar says
Elee, I agree with your suggestion. One of the reasons this is not done, I would suggest, is on account of the widespread assumption that “communication with God,” and “focusing one’s thoughts on God,” necessarily means what CogitoErgoSum implies. Yet a Muslim preparing to blow up himself and a market full of shoppers is constantly in “communication with God.” The jihadi screaming “Allahu Akbar!” while carrying out mass murder has his thoughts very much focussed on God.”
CogitoErgoSum says
My question is this: which god?
CogitoErgoSum says
This has me wondering. If only God has access to our thoughts, there must be certain thoughts God finds offensive and would prefer that we not think. But since God has given us free will He does not interfere with our thoughts. When a person prays for something offensive to God surely the communication is only one way and the answer is silence and inaction (in keeping with free will).
On the other hand, spiritual entities such as demons, angels and the spirits of the deceased must not be able to know our thoughts but could possibly gain an idea about what we are thinking through our spoken words and actions. Also, they must in some way be able to influence our thoughts when we allow our minds to fall into an unguarded state or when we intentionally open up our minds to evil. Muslims offer spoken prayers and do things based upon what was told to them by a man who obviously was not in communication with God but with some other spirit. By following the directions of this man (Muhammad) who was influenced by this spirit Muslims also leave themselves open to being influenced by evil.
Anyway, that’s what I’m thinking right now.
Anjuli Pandavar says
I am not qualified to respond, my friend.
Jayell says
So Melbourne airport has a specifically islamic prayer room, does it? No doubt the authorities there see that as their duty of consideration towards their international clientele, as do other international airports in the civilised world Strange that Doha airport in Qatar (which is apparently so keen to promote itself as a ‘civilised’ country on the international stage) can only manage to provide segregated mosques in its terminal building. Didn’t they realise that a lot of their international clientele wouldn’t find that very helpful? Maybe they expected everyone to convert to islam during their visit or stop-over! Or perhaps the Doha authorites didn’t think non-muslims were worth any consideration, just like the character(s) who left the offensive material in Melbourne airport..I wonder what they do in other middle-eastern airports?
Infidel. says
But but but
Obama and G W
Said the religion of Satan oops is a religion of peace
gravenimage says
Australia: Sharia manual preaching jihad warfare and hostage taking found in airport prayer room
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This is mainstream Islam. How can you filthy Infidels complain?
GreekEmpress says
Wait—what???
Muslim prayer room in an airport in AUSTRALIA????
Did I miss something here??
gravenimage says
Sadly not. This is increasingly common. I know that JFK Airport in NYC has an Islamic prayer room, as does Orlando Airport:
“Orlando airport unveils $250K Muslim prayer room”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/12/orlando-airport-unveils-250k-muslim-prayer-room/
I know that Frankfort, Germany has one–and, insanely, so does Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel.
Other airports just have generic chapels or prayer rooms–or even “reflection rooms”. Disturbingly, Muslims often aggressively take over these prayer rooms:
Here’s one comment on a Catholic forum:
“At our airport there is a prayer room ,but when i went inside there was only Islamic books inside and a prayer mat for muslims.
I was surprised there was no Bible in there…”
https://forums.catholic.com/t/airport-prayer-rooms/283197
Muslims often remove anything that is not Islamic.
TheBuffster says
Well, if you don’t give them a special place to pray out of sight, they’ll just do it out where people can trip over them or where people will get freaked out over seeing groups of Muslims praying before a flight.
FYI says
Perhaps someone should leave a copy of that book allah claims he wrote.
No,no,not the koran.
the BIBLE{koran 3:3,allah claims he wrote it…}
koran 5 v 46 “…WE bestowed upon Jesus the GOSPEL wherein are guidance and a light..CONFIRMING that which was revealed before it in the Torah”.
koran 5 v 47″ Let the people of the Gospel judge by that which allah hath REVEALED therein.Whoso judgeth not by that which allah HATH REVEALED:such are evil livers”
On that basis,since allah claims to be the author of the Bible,a copy of the Bible should be placed in ALL islamic “prayer” rooms.
May I suggest that a Post-it note be put on the front with directions for devout muslims?
1. to consult koran 10:94 allah’s advice to muhammed..that if in doubt..he must consult the ..BIBLE
2.See if they can find EXODUS 20:there you go…GOD’S OFFICIAL COMMANDMENTS which allah/muhammed ,muslims and islam seem not to understand or OBEY.
And a note:DO NOT DAMAGE or remove allah’s book{the Bible}
tim gallagher says
I can’t see how Islam can ever be reformed. I don’t trust people like this Tawhidi.. I only have the time of day for people who, realising how foul Islam is, left Islam. People like Nonie Darwish, Ibn Warraq, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and people like that. We all know that the Koran is full of hate for non-Muslims and calls for violence against them. That’s basic Islam. I can’t see how these attitude of evil hatred for non-Muslims can be changed in Islam. Maybe I’m missing something. How do the supposedly peaceful Sufis interpret the calls for violence in Islam? Do they just interpret those types of passages in some strange, non-violent, symbolic way or even ignore such passages altogether? Do they simply pretend that the hate-filled passages don’t exist? The way I see Islam, it is full of so much barbaric content ( treatment of women, underage marriages, attitude to gays, etc) that people have to abandon it. I noticed an advert on Channel 7 here in Australia for a program about girls as young as 7 being married off. No doubt Islam again. I didn’t notice what program it was. Channel 7 have exposed quite a lot of this type of evil garbage over recent years. Bryan Seymour often seems to be the gutsy reporter who does these reports. I’ve often thought that he has some courage. The network have shown some courage in exposing this type of thing.
infidel says
SURPRISE.. SURPRISE… Surprise..!!!
No Muzzies Here says
Is there any chance at all that Westerners will ever get the idea into their heads that the “prayer book” isn’t about wishing well to everybody, but about eliminating non-believers as an entrance ticket to Paradise?