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Hugh Fitzgerald: Pope Francis and Imam Drouiche on the Strasbourg Attack (Part Two)

Dec 28, 2018 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Imam Hocine Drouiche, vice president of the imams of France, expresses his concern for this violent use of religion. “Once again – he has told AsiaNews – “France is hit by terrorism in the name of the Islamic jihad. These sick people always find religious coverage to justify their inhumane crimes. Terrorism will not stop until all Muslims condemn it firmly and remove this cover that dirties them and endangers their future in France and Europe”.

Imam Drouiche calls Jihadis “sick people” who “always find religious coverage to justify their inhumane crimes.” No. He has it backwards. They do not commit these crimes just for the fun of it, and then attempt after the fact to give these “inhumane crimes” a religious justification. Those we call Jihadis are led to commit these crimes by the Qur’an itself, and its clear commands, in over 100 verses, to commit Jihad against the Infidels. Religion is not the ex post facto excuse, but rather the cause, of this violence. Nor are Jihadis “sick people”; they understand and take to heart these commands; they are good Muslims, following Islam’s  texts (Qur’an, hadith, sira) and teachings.

Imam Drouiche says that “terrorism will not stop until all Muslims condemn it firmly and remove this [religious] cover that dirties them.” How can Muslims possibly condemn those many verses in the Qur’an that call upon them to “strike terror” in the hearts of the Infidels? How can they ignore Muhammad himself, who claimed in a famous hadith that “I have been made victorious through terror”? Muslim terrorism will last as long as the uncreated and immutable Qur’an itself. How does Imam Drouiche, who means well, but cannot allow himself to believe that the sources of Muslim terrorism are to be found in the Qur’an and Hadith, hope to convince 1.5 billion Muslims to ignore so much of what they read in those texts? It can’t be done.

Prof. Drouiche points the finger at the indoctrination of imams in mosques.

“In general, the speech of the imams has not yet adapted to the values ​​of the republic or human ones. If Muslims want to continue living in France and in Europe, it is necessary and urgent to awaken and free this religion from the hands of intolerant integralists. If a religion does not introduce peace, it is harmful to itself and does not deserve to be close to the divine.”

These “intolerant integralists” have the Qur’an and the example of Muhammad, as described in the hadith, on their side. They are not making up these Qur’anic verses. It is the truly “moderate” Muslims, like Prof. Drouiche himself, who want us to ignore, as they do, all the jihad verses in the Qur’an. But it is they who are being untrue to both the letter and spirit of Islam, an aggressive conquering faith whose adherents are taught to wage jihad until the entire world is dominated by Islam, and Islam rules everywhere. It is Imam Drouiche who is ignoring the 1,400 year history of Jihad, and the conquest by Muslims of many lands and many peoples, who when once they were subjugated, were given the choice of death, conversion to Islam, or acceptance of the permanent status of dhimmi, with the many onerous conditions, including payment of the jizyah, that that status entailed.

For Drouiche, “Islam is going through a profound crisis worldwide.” It needs “a new wise and intelligent elite to be free and humanized. We can still save the situation in Europe, but I’m not too optimistic.”

Is Islam truly “going through a profound crisis worldwide”? Isn’t the problem that Islam is not going through such a crisis, but that it ought to be? Within Muslim states there is internecine warfare of every kind: Sunni versus Shi’a, Arab versus non-Arab Muslims, Muslims versus Christians, locally-based militias fighting among themselves for power and money — in Yemen, Libya,Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Egypt, Bahrain.

And there should be, but there is not, a “profound crisis” in Islam among Muslims who have settled deep within non-Muslim lands, by the tens of millions, unwilling to integrate, battening on the largesse of generous non-Muslim states, that provide free or highly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, unemployment benefits. Muslims seem quite pleased with this arrangement, taking all this as if by right, with some even describing it as the “jihad seeker’s allowance” — a proleptic jizyah, in societies where non-Muslims are still in control. They don’t see a crisis in Islam; they see Islam instead as triumphantly on the march, unstoppable by such confused Western leaders as May, Macron, and Merkel. They see a crisis among the Unbelievers, who are gradually losing control of the Muslim-populated parts of their own countries.

 

 

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  1. mortimer says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 10:20 am

    Fr Henri Boulad SJ of Alexandria, Egypt is a Jesuit who has analyzed Islam. Pope Francis should read what he said:

    “Islamism is not a caricature, nor a counterfeit, nor a heresy, nor a fringe or atypical phenomenon versus classical, orthodox, Sunnite Islam.

    To the contrary, I think Islamism is naked Islam, Islam without a mask and without paint, Islam perfectly consistent and true to itself, an Islam that has the courage and lucidity to go all the way to its ultimate conclusions and final implications.
    Islamism is Islam in all its logic and in all its rigour. Islamism is present in Islam as the chick is present in the egg, as the fruit is present in the flower and as the tree is present in the seed.

    But what is Islamism?

    Islamism is political Islam, the bearer of a project for a model society and whose aim is to establish a theocratic state based on Sharia, the only legitimate law—since it is divine—since it was revealed and enshrined in the Koran and Sunna—it’s a law that applies to everything.

    Here is an all-inclusive and all-encompassing project, one that is total, totalizing and totalitarian.”

    – Fr Henri Boulad SJ

    • Terry Gain says

      Dec 28, 2018 at 1:08 pm

      Thanks Mortimer.

      • Rufolino says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 3:44 am

        This Imam says that “these people always find religious coverage for their crimes”.

        Is he serious ?

        OF COURSE they find “religious coverage” because these crimes are mandated in Islamic texts !!

        • Rufolino says

          Dec 29, 2018 at 3:46 am

          The imam is counting on a gullible audience ! (And he’s got one.)

    • Tony Naim says

      Dec 28, 2018 at 4:10 pm

      In Christian theology, Man is called upon to reconcile the imperfect universe with the perfect kingdom.
      In political Islam, Man is called upon to enjoy sex,slaves and booties of war from the present Universe based on the norms and values of a savage tribal Arabian culture from the seventh century.

      • Terry Gain says

        Dec 28, 2018 at 8:04 pm

        Good comment but your use of the word political is unfortunate. Islam
        is a political ideology posing as a religion. God did not choose a murderer, mass murderer, slave-taker, sexual slave-taker, rapist, pedophile and misogynist as His prophet, nor did He promise a carnal paradise. The whole idea is absurd. Were it not for the carnage the very idea would be hilarious.

  2. dan christensen says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 11:07 am

    Imam Drouiche is just like most all other politicians.
    He is not specific in his criticism.
    He speaks only in general terms with occasional outbursts of moral indignation.
    You know the type; the “Somebody must do something” type.
    He should be challenged to come up with specific concrete plans, designed to remove the aggressive parts in the islamic scriptures.
    Right now he is only buying time, while Europe slowly is conquered by demography.
    He is confirming that the islamic strategy for occupying Europe works as expected by the evil forces.

  3. Terry Gain says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 1:07 pm

    “Nor are Jihadis “sick people”; they understand and take to heart these commands; they are good Muslims, following Islam’s texts (Qur’an, hadith, sira) and teachings”
    …………….

    I respectfully disagree. Accepting these inhumane and savage commands is at least sociopathic. Believing that they are the commands of a loving God is psychotic.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 28, 2018 at 8:14 pm

      It is also mainstream Islam.

    • Jenny H says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 1:52 am

      Allah isn’t regarded as a loving god. Love is barely mentioned in the Koran. I don’t know the exact reference in the Koran but, it says that Allah loves muslims and hates unbelievers. I think it was mentioned in a previous Jihad watch that it could be translated as “approves of” instead of loves. I think that”s the only time love is mentioned in the Koran.

  4. jewdog says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 2:22 pm

    The Islamic definition of terrorism is as slippery and deceitful as Bill Clinton’s definition of sex, and just as suspicious.

  5. gravenimage says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 8:19 pm

    Hard to know what is going on with Imam Drouiche–does he really reject such core parts of his creed?

    Here’s more from him, from just a few weeks ago:

    “Imam Drouiche: For fear of hard right, Europe’s left wing fails to condemn Islamism”

    http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Imam-Drouiche:-For-fear-of-hard-right,-Europes-left-wing-fails-to-condemn-Islamism-45247.html

    Over all, this looks pretty sane–but then he says *this*:

    the “right” demonizes Islam and as a result pushes it to an even harder extreme
    …

    As though pious Muslims are waging violent Jihad because Jihad is being demonized–this is the exact opposite of what is happening.

  6. Manny says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 10:17 pm

    Imam Drouiche is puzzled that the terrorists justify their violence through religious grounds? What kind of an Imam is he? Not a very learned one.

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