This is the second Islamic apologetics article that the New York Times has published in as many days (here’s my takedown of the other one). When did the Times sign up to be the media arm of the Muslim World League?
In any case, here is a quick test of whether what Mustafa Akyol says is true or not: let him go to Pakistan, or Iran, or Afghanistan, or Saudi Arabia, or Somalia, or Sudan, or any other country that implements Islamic law, and tell the Islamic authorities there that true Islam does not kill blasphemers. Akyol apparently expects us to believe that all the Islamic authorities in all those countries, and all the Islamic scholars who formulated Islamic law from the Qur’an and Sunnah, got Islam all wrong, wrong, wrong, and finally here comes Mustafa at last, with the genuine article.
In reality, if Akyol denied the death penalty for blasphemy in any Sharia state, he could end up being executed for blasphemy himself. And he almost certainly knows about the Islamic texts I quote below, that contradict his claims in this article. He just hopes you don’t.
More below.
“True Islam Does Not Kill Blasphemers,” by Mustafa Akyol, New York Times, November 21, 2018:
The agony of Asia Bibi, a 54-year-old Roman Catholic and mother of five, shows there is something rotten in her country, Pakistan — and in the broader world of Islam….
Muslims who support such violent or oppressive responses to blasphemy are missing two important points. One is that it is them, not the blasphemers, who are defaming Islam, by presenting it as an immature tradition that has little room for civilized discourse. The second point is that their zealotry is not as religiously grounded as they think.
To see this, one must look at the Quran — the most fundamental and only undisputed source of Islam. Most notably, throughout all of its 6,236 verses, it never tells Muslims to silence blasphemy with force. It tells them only to respond with dignity.
This appears in the Quranic verses that addressed the tensions between the earliest Muslims and other communities nearby. “You are sure to hear much that is hurtful from those who were given the Scripture before you and from those who associate others with God,” one such verse tells Muslims, only to add, “If you are steadfast and mindful of God, that is the best course.” [3:186]
Another Quranic verse holds up as model Muslims “those who walk humbly on the earth, and who, when the foolish address them, reply, ‘Peace.’” [25:63] Yet another verse addresses the issue of mockery, telling Muslims that when they hear people who ridicule “God’s revelations,” they should just “not sit with them.” [4:140]
However, as Islamic jurisprudence developed over the centuries, much was added to the spirit of the Quran, based often on dubious reports about the words and deeds of the prophet. Blasphemy, in particular sabb al-rasul, or “insulting the prophet,” gradually became a capital crime — but only with objections from prominent jurists like Abu Hanifa, the eighth-century founder of one of the four main Sunni schools. A bigger sin than insulting the prophet is disbelief in God, he reasoned, but Islam decrees no punishment for that.
In reality, there is much support in the Qur’an for the death penalty for blasphemy. It can arguably be found in this verse: “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.” (5:33)
Also: “Those who annoy Allah and His Messenger – Allah has cursed them in this World and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating Punishment” (33:57)
And: “If they violate their oaths after pledging to keep their covenants, and attack your religion, you may fight the leaders of paganism – you are no longer bound by your covenant with them – that they may refrain” (9:12).
There is more in the hadith, which Akyol dismisses above as “dubious reports about the words and deeds of the prophet.” From a historical standpoint, they are dubious indeed, but they are also, as he notes, normative for Islamic law. Akyol needs to answer the question of exactly how and why these “dubious reports” became the basis for Islamic law if they really contradicted the Qur’an. No one noticed that until Akyol came along?
In one of these hadiths, Muhammad asked: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” One of the Muslims, Muhammad bin Maslama, answered, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” When Muhammad said that he would, Muhammad bin Maslama said, “Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab).” Muhammad responded: “You may say it.” Muhammad bin Maslama duly lied to Ka’b, luring him into his trap, and murdered him. (Bukhari 5.59.369)
“A Jewess used to abuse the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and disparage him. A man strangled her till she died. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) declared that no recompense was payable for her blood.” (Sunan Abu-Dawud 38.4349)
Dennis says
How would a human hurt Allah? I’m totally stumped.
mortimer says
No Forgiveness for a Blasphemer of Islam … (authentic Islamic sources)
BC says
Thre is something rotten in the White House and other Western Nations’ houses that the Bibi Family has not bee given asylum
jule says
The New York Times SAYS???? What do they know? How many of them with free minded upbringing has read the Qur’an/Hadiths????? Just what are they out for? To protect something that wants to destroy our country and the ‘West’ as it SAYS IN THEIR BOOK is actually treason.
In every Muslim country, criticism is penalized by death and we see that EVERY DAY. Even in USA it has happened. STOP PRETENDING.
eduardo odraude says
True Islam does not kill blasphemers? Right, and so was the NYT’s Duranty when he extolled Stalin’s Soviet Union way back when.
Not.
mortimer says
MUSLIM VIGILANTES KILL BLASPHEMERS WITH AUTHORIZATION FROM SHARIA …
Sharia permits the MURDER of anyone who verbally opposes Islam, since they are at war with Islam:
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim at war (‘kafir harbi’) with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
Sharia law forbids the ‘mention’ of any Islamic topic by a dirty kafir.
The Sharia manual of the Shafi school states:
“We have already discussed killing the person who, with intent, curses the Prophet, belittles him or slights him in any way. The judgement in this case is clear.” (i.e. the sentence is execution)- from Sharia law manual, “Qadhi Iyaadh in ash-Shifa”, Volume No.2, Page No. 27
-as-Suyuti writes: “(If they break their oaths…) This ayah (K. 9:11-12) is used as a proof by those who say that if a dhimmi attacks Islam (VERBALLY) or the Qur’an or MENTIONS the Prophet in a bad manner, HE IS KILLED, whether he has broken a treaty or not. Those who say that his repentance is accepted use as a proof, ‘hopefully they will stop.’”
– from a Sharia law web site…the “punishment of execution which sharee’ah imposes on everyone who reviles the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), whether he is a Muslim, a dhimmi or a mu’aahid, because transgressing against the status of the Prophets is disbelief in Allaah Almighty, and it invalidates every sanctity, right and covenant; it is a major betrayal which deserves the most severe punishment.
3 – Although this was a hadd punishment, it also comes under the heading of killing a harbi (a non-Muslim in a state of war against Islam), and it is permissible for anyone to kill a harbi.” (i.e. vigilante murder is permitted by Islam)
APOSTASY PUNISHMENT IS DEATH SENTENCE AFTER 3 DAYS – VIGILANTES ARE PROTECTED
Sharia manual ‘Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) says that “an expiation is due to Allah Most High from anyone who kills someone unlawful to kill…” (o5.1). However, “there is no expiation for killing someone who has left Islam” (o5.4). In other words, someone who kills is liable to punishment, but he isn’t liable to punishment if he kills an apostate. And nothing at all is said about ‘state authorization’.
“The four schools of law all concur that apostasy is a crime, and that an apostate should be asked to repent, and that if he does not he should be killed.” – Grand Imam Ahmed-el-Tayeb of al-Azhar University
“A person guilty of apostasy (man or woman) shall be put to death if repentance is not made within the period allowed which shall not exceed sixty days. Repentance of a person who commits apostasy more than twice shall not be accepted.” – from Sharia law manual, “Bill of Legal Punishments” (p.12)
Killing Apostates will be Rewarded on Judgment Day
Bukhari (84:64-65) – “Allah’s Apostle: ‘During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, wherever you find them, kill them, for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection.’”
eduardo odraude says
Muhammad says there is to be no punishment for murdering someone who insults him
For example, in Sunan Abu-Dawud, a canonical hadith collection:
Book 38, Number 4348:
https://muflihun.com/abudawood/39/4348
gravenimage says
+1
jule says
Oh really. The Prophet Mohamed, the model Muslim, killed Ka’b ibn alAshraf after the battle of Badr for inciting the Quraysh against him with his ‘Muslims’ and to seek vengence on them for what they did. Later Abu Rafi was killed for insulting Mohamed. In Fiqh and Madhabs in all Muslim countries, different schools make up laws based on Qur’an/HADITHS Mohameds actions/interpretations and most include death for insults, blasphemy, apostasy, criticism and say all of it is traitorous demanding death. Read history to see how many he beheaded or had beheaded for ‘Allah/Islam’ (himself) Just now Abbas in his stolen ‘West Bank’ of 1948 by Jordan, is claiming death to anyone who sells land to Jews (as it is in Jordan as well) and firing of anyone who helps a Jews (as the ‘Arab’ Policeman who helped an IDF change his tire) Turkey has killed, tortured and jailed 1000’s as has Pakistan, Morocco, Egypt,Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Chechnya, every Muslim Country. Go tell them they are not Real Muslim!
All this is REAL ISLAM or let you go to those Leaders and try to instruct them!!!!
Walter Sieruk says
That blatantly false claim by the New York Times which was quoted in the title of the above article.is much of completely bogus claim that i can’t bring myself to keyboard it. This totally false statement of a claim by the NYT may lead to the questions “Is that newspaper a propaganda machine because the higher up staff of the paper in receiving money under the table for oil rich Muslims ?” Or “Could is be the Muslim and Muslim influences had thoroughly infuriated that newspaper ?” “Could it be that the NYT is printing lies because they fear violence from Muslim terrorists ? ” As in they are appeasing those Muslim terrorists to stay safe ?” Who knows why.
By the way, such lies if printed or spoken the Muslims, those same Muslims would call those lies Taqiyya.
JIMBO says
The NYT denied the Holocaust even as it was going on. This gambit is hardly new for the “Grey Lady”.
Walter Sieruk says
In the book written by a former Muslim who became a Christian , Mark A. Gabriel PhD. which has the title ISLAM AND TERRORISM In the beginning of that book under the subtitle of “My Story” he gave in personal testimony of when he live in Egypt and as Egyptian citizen and he told his father , a Muslim that he left Islam because he has now converted to Christ .His father reacted by attempting to kill him so he need to escape escape Egypt now he lives in the USA and a Christian and an American citizen.
Strangely . Mr Gabriel explain even though his father tried to murder him for become a Christian He yest still sure the his father still” loved him.” nevertheless his father knew he had to because Islam required him to do so.
Such reports are common around the world . Too many reports of this type of thing to ignore or deny the reality of, about he people to leave the “House of Islam.”
Shame on the New York Times for printing blatant falsehood and outright lies.
Norger says
What’s the penalty for apostasy in “true Islam” again?
Peggy says
There is none. Don’t you believe him?
I wish someone would tell the rest of Islam because they seem to be in the dark about it.
mortimer says
APOSTASY PUNISHMENT IS DEATH SENTENCE AFTER 3 DAYS – VIGILANTES ARE NOT PUNISHED
Sharia manual ‘Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) says that “an expiation is due to Allah Most High from anyone who kills someone unlawful to kill…” (o5.1). However, “there is no expiation for killing someone who has left Islam” (o5.4). In other words, someone who kills is liable to punishment, but he isn’t liable to punishment if he kills an apostate. And nothing at all is said about ‘state authorization’.
“The four schools of law all concur that apostasy is a crime, and that an apostate should be asked to repent, and that if he does not he should be killed.” – Grand Imam Ahmed-el-Tayeb of al-Azhar University
“A person guilty of apostasy (man or woman) shall be put to death if repentance is not made within the period allowed which shall not exceed sixty days. Repentance of a person who commits apostasy more than twice shall not be accepted.” – from Sharia law manual, “Bill of Legal Punishments” (p.12)
– Killing Apostates will be Rewarded on Judgment Day
Bukhari (84:64-65) – “Allah’s Apostle: ‘During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, wherever you find them, kill them, for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection.’”
Emilie Green says
One of the world’s most respected Sunni scholars, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, admitted in 2012 that if Muslims had “gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today”.
Astonishingly enough, he was not apologizing for the beheading, torture, burning and murder of millions but rather trying to justify it.
Lydia Church says
True islam DOES kill blasphemers, their koran says so just like Robert exposes.
Just go to a muslim country and say something they don’t agree with and you will find out,
just as swiftly as so many others did, and they are following the koran, which is true islam, when
they do that. That is why they want Asia Bibi dead so badly.
On a note of irony… we can only way that ‘true islam does not kill blasphemers’ in the sense that it kills those who tell the truth, and contradict them. We are not the blasphemers. Muslims are the blasphemers. But they put Christians to death for sharing the truth, which of course is not blasphemy in real life.
Wellington says
Uh, that would be the fantasy version of Islam that does not kill blasphemers. You know, the kind of Islam someone like Zuhdi Jasser believes in.
rubiconcrest says
I don’t like comments such as this. Zuhdi seems to bear the brunt around here. If all Muslims were like Zuhdi Jasser jihad watch would not be necessary. He may be a lone voice in the wilderness but I respect him for his courage.
Wellington says
You may, rubiconcrest, respect Zuhdi Jasser for his courage but I do not respect him for putting forth a false narrative, as he has done sundry times, i.e., that Islam is something inherently good and can be reformed.
Might as well respect a Marxist or Neo-Nazi for their courage in arguing for an “enlightened” and “reformed” version of their respective belief of choice. Would you do this? If not, why not? Because you think Islam is not as bad as Marxism or Nazism? Actually, it is worse when considering the time horizon in which it has been able to hide its malevolence.
If one does not comprehend (and it is clear you don’t) that no totalitarian belief system, whether spiritual or secular, is absolutely incapable of reform, then such a person is ignorant at best, a permanent fool at worse.
But go ahead and shatter my assumptions above and detail how the only religion which calls for war to be made upon all mankind “until all religion is with Allah” {Sura 8:39}, which in its own theological blueprint DEMANDS that in THIS WORLD all non-believers are to be treated as the equivalent of human waste and should be subject to a Jim Crow system based not on race but on belief, and which, per EVERY major school of Islamic theology to this day, both Sunni or Shiite, for instance the four main Sunni schools—the Hanafi, Hanbali, Shafi and Maliki—still calls for death for apostasy and death or severe bodily harm for ANY criticism of Islam, the Koran or Mohammed, should be accorded ANY respect because the very confused Zuhdi Jasser attempts to exculpate Mo’s creed?
Your turn. And no general denigration please. Respond, if you will, to my many specific assertions above. Yeah, refute them, I dare you, and tell me why someone like Zuhdi Jasser should be listened to.
rubiconcrest says
Where there is one brave enough to stand up there are usually 100 who agree but won’t stand. A billion plus Muslims cannot be ignored nor thrown under the bus. You have to show them there is a better way. This is a dilemma we face. I don’t agree that all Islam is bad. Proscribing drinking or smoking, for example, are good prohibitions. Is Islam in it’s totality intolerant and bad for society? In a word, yes. The problem we have is that not enough Muslims hear Mr. Jasser and they are the ones who need to hear what he has to say. Of course I have not heard or read everything he has said so I cannot vouch for him completely. But as I said he is not the problem. We need more outspoken Muslims such Jasser to counter the constant Muslim brothers we see on TV. He is not afraid to take them on. Muslims are more likely to listen to Jasser than you or I. He thinks Islam can be reformed. What is more palatable to Muslims, outlawing the faith or divorcing it from sharia?
Wellington says
Yeah, rubiconcrest, you just don’t grasp that you can’t reform rot. As for there being a billion Muslims that can’t be “thrown under the bus,” what if there were only a few thousand, would you then be ready to “throw them under the bus?” Should sheer quantity, if you get my overall point here, allow for the validating of evil?
Islam is rotten to its core, just as Nazism, Marxism, anarchism, syndicalism and certain other religious or secular belief systems are.
And I don’t want Islam outlawed anymore than I want Nazism, Marxism, anarchism, etc. outlawed. I ONLY want it exposed for the rot which it is. Zuhdi Jasser doesn’t get this; neither do you. When you figure out a way to reform Nazism, which preached a master race, just as Islam preaches a master faith, get back to me with your “reform ideas.” Yeah, do so.
gravenimage says
rubiconcrest wrote:
Where there is one brave enough to stand up there are usually 100 who agree but won’t stand. A billion plus Muslims cannot be ignored nor thrown under the bus.
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rubiconcrest, pointing out that Islam is savage and that it does not allow any sort of reform is not throwing Muslims under the bus.
Would you consider pointing out that Fascism is bad throwing Nazis under the bus?
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You have to show them there is a better way. This is a dilemma we face.
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Christianity is a better way. Judaism is a better way. Atheism is a better way. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism are better ways.
But pious Muslims don’t agree–nor do they agree that “reformed” Islam is a better way.
You do realize that Zuhdi Jasser has not even been able to find a Mosque that will allow him to worship–note, not a Mosque that agrees with his views on reform, but just a Mosque that will let hi attend.
That’s how accepted his views are. Yet, he presents them to the Infidels as though they are mainstream. There are non-Muslims who assume Islam will be fine because Muslims are embracing these reformers–but this is not true.
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I don’t agree that all Islam is bad. Proscribing drinking or smoking, for example, are good prohibitions.
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I don’t drink, and I hate the abuse of alcohol. But is *this* really the sort of thing you want to see imposed here?
“Indonesia: Christian whipped 36 times for selling alcohol and violating Sharia”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/01/indonesia-christian-whipped-36-times-for-selling-alcohol-and-violating-sharia
And you are quite mistaken in believing that Islam prohibits smoking. Smoking, of course, is not mentioned in the Qur’an or other texts of Islam–and smoking is rife in much of the Muslim world.
If you look up the statistics, smoking is more common in much of Dar-al-Islam than it is in the West.
More:
Is Islam in it’s totality intolerant and bad for society? In a word, yes. The problem we have is that not enough Muslims hear Mr. Jasser and they are the ones who need to hear what he has to say. Of course I have not heard or read everything he has said so I cannot vouch for him completely. But as I said he is not the problem. We need more outspoken Muslims such Jasser to counter the constant Muslim brothers we see on TV. He is not afraid to take them on. Muslims are more likely to listen to Jasser than you or I.
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Not really. Jasser is under constant death threat from his more orthodox coreligionists.
Then, Jasser slams actual Anti-Jihadists. This, from brave apostate and Anti-Jihadist Nonie Darwish:
“Can Islam Ever Be Reformed? Not Likely, Speaker Says”
https://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170521/ARTICLE/170529999
“Muslim reformer Zuhdi Jasser has recently attacked leaders of the anti-jihad movement in America. He equated them with jihadists when he called them the derogatory word, alt-jihadists, meaning that Americans who speak and write against the evils of Islamic jihad and sharia are just as bad as jihadists. Jasser attacked by name freedom fighters like Stephen Kirby, John Guandolo, Diana West, Clare Lopez, Andrew Bostom, Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller…”
In other words, he says that those who point out the horrors of Jihad are as bad as Jihadists. This is very much in line with Shari’ah, where no one is to criticize Islam.
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He thinks Islam can be reformed. What is more palatable to Muslims, outlawing the faith or divorcing it from sharia?
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It says right in the Qur’an that nothing about Islam can be changed–and that those who try are heretics. Muslims have imposed Islam on Infidels many times, often at the point of a sword.
And many aspects of Islam *are* illegal–including waging violent Jihad and most elements of brutal Shari’ah law (including flogging people who sell alcohol).
Yet, you don’t find Muslims rushing to reform Islam as a result–pious Muslims don’t care what the “filthy Infidels” think.
rubiconcrest says
There is a good interview with Dr. Tarek Heggy at the Geller Report. Islamic institutions are the problem. ‘Nazism, Marxism, anarchism’ are not religions. Over a billion people will not accept that what they believe is ‘rot’, as another has commented on this thread, and just walk away from their faith. We are in uncharted territory here. How to reduce the power of an a totalitarian ideology that is a religion. So far I have read nothing on this thread that addresses this real problem.
The overriding opinions on this thread are that Islam has to go and anyone who says otherwise is not being realistic. While I agree in spirit the reality is that this will be a long slog. What is the best way to proceed besides telling the truth about Islam?
France proposed some interesting ideas but they appear to have gone nowhere. Remember some of the best spokespeople countering Islamic totalitarianism are ex-Muslims. Labeling Islam as ‘all bad’ is not enough. Shining light on Islam is part of a solution, it is a big part, but it is not the complete solution.
Calling on Muslim leaders to come to the table to solve the ‘radical Islamic extremism’ problem as the Australian PM has done is a good start. Politicians need to call out the leaders and the institutions. If they won’t come along it demonstrates that they are part of the problem. Of course we already know that but the invitation has to be made to force them to the table. What they have to offer besides denial, mental illness, Islamophobia etc….
Jassar has a reasonable point of view that cannot be just dismissed. He is not part of the problem. He rejects the view that Islam has to be abolished and that political Islam and Islam cannot be separated. We know he could not be doing what he is doing anywhere but in the West but that does not mean that he cannot succeed. I think our tent has to be big enough to include him.
Peggy says
If he was to get my respect he should’ve said that he doesn’t believe in the death penalty not that true Islam doesn’t dish it out.
He is a liar and a deceiver. Firstly, he doesn’t believe what he is saying and secondly he is a deceiver who is guilty of pulling wool over our eyes which puts us in danger.
Terry Gain says
I disrespect him for his dishonesty and detachment from reality. He is the type of Muslim that makes a takeover possible. I don’t trust him.
Peggy says
That’s the one Aladdin and Jasmine follow.
Angemon says
“Only”, eh? Very well – what’s the quran stance on alcoholic beverages? The irony here is that the kind of islam this clown is parroting – quran-only islam – is, itself, a blasphemy…
Ah, so you’ve never read the quran – or maybe you have and are expecting to defend your stance on a technicality – “we.. there’s no verse in the quran that specifically says, with all these letters and words, go kill blasphemers”.
Simon says
How can he tell such bold faced lies?! He clearly knows of the reliable Hadith where Mo asks his followers to kill his critics, so he is at pains to point out that there are no such commands in the Quran. To not even mention the Hadith is blatant propaganda and outright deceptive.
Also, when was the last time the NYT ran a puff piece on Jesus or Christianity?
Barbara Nakelski says
Really??! Tell that to all the Christian Syrians, Iraqis, Somalis that have suffered extraordinary torture and death. NYT is giant JOKE!!
John says
Hey Mustafa, ever heard Taqiyya?
But “Mustafa Akyol” already says a lot you lying POS 🤥
Charlie says
Ishaq (p. 676):
“‘You obey a stranger who encourages you to murder for booty. You are greedy men. Is there no honor among you?’ Upon hearing those lines Muhammad said, ‘Will no one rid me of this woman?’ Umayr, a zealous Muslim, decided to execute the Prophet’s wishes. That very night he crept into the writer’s home while she lay sleeping surrounded by her young children. There was one at her breast. Umayr removed the suckling babe and then plunged his sword into the poet. The next morning in the mosque, Muhammad, who was aware of the assassination, said, ‘You have helped Allah and His Apostle.’ Umayr said. ‘She had five sons; should I feel guilty?’ ‘No,’ the Prophet answered. ‘Killing her was as meaningless as two goats butting heads.'”
Norger says
I remember watching an interview with the “Muslim Guy” (Arsalan Iftikhar) on CNN right after the Charlie Hebdo massacre and hearing the “Muslim Guy” say something to the effect that the Charlie Hebdo killers were not followers of “true” Islam because Muhammed was tolerant of his critics. I could tell by the expression on the face of the CNN talking head that he (the interviewer) knew this was utter bullsh*t but he wouldn’t challenge the “Muslim Guy” on Muhammed’s alleged peaceful and tolerant nature. The MSM goes out of its way to give a platform to any Muslim who is willing to whitewash Islamic theology for gullible western audiences, truth be damned.
gravenimage says
New York Times claims that “True Islam Does Not Kill Blasphemers”
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Yes–I cited this load of Taqiyya on other threads.
Of course, if Mustafa Akyol *really* had a problem with this, he would be taking the matter up with his murderous coreligionists, instead of whitewashing Islam for the filthy Infidels.
dan christensen says
All those thousands of wise guys who know everything about “True” islam should arrange an international conference attended by “True” believers.
Let the conference be sponsored by the UN and all the western countries with more than 5% muslim population.
The major challenge would be to define the contents and rules of “True” islam and subsequently publish the tenets of the new “True” islam.
After the publication, the brave conference participants should be given 24/7 protection for the rest of their natural lives. By necessity, not by choice.
alex Reid says
Critical Western Journalism is now officially in the toilet! Throughout Islamic texts & its Apologists call for the killing & mutilation of Blasphemers. The NYT have simply ditched their integrity. Disgraceful.
nicholas tesdorf says
Many Muslims would be very surprised to learn these ‘truths’ about Islam.
No Muzzies Here says
The timing is deliberate. It’s the season of the Christian-based holidays, and the Times is unhappy. The times would prefer this country be Muslim, since it is the religion that will replace the Christianity that it hates.
Younes SHEIKH says
Blasphemy Case on a mere allegation of being Ahmedi Dr. Younus Shaikh; Read how he narrowly escaped out of the Mullah-created Islamic Hell of Pakistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younus_Shaikh
UNCLE VLADDI says
Why not mention Sura 4:89?!
Mo says
He is quoting Meccan verses which are nullified after the migration from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD. Here is what really happens…
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 or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement. Quran 5:33.