“I am sad – he concludes – for the victims, but also because my religion is hostage in the hands of ignorant people full of hatred.”
Imam Drouiche insists that Islam itself is innocent of hatred and violence. His religion is held “hostage” by these crazy extremists — “ignorant people full of hatred.” He doesn’t dare permit himself to study the remarks made by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-described caliph of the Islamic State, or the broadcasts of Anwar al-Awlaki, on the Qur’anic commands that they urged their followers to carry out. That would upset him too much, and he wants to continue to believe that his religion “is hostage in the hands of ignorant people full of hatred.” But those “ignorant people” he deplores are not ignorant of the Qur’an; they know it very well. And they are “full of hatred” toward Unbelievers because the Qur’an has instructed them to be so. In how many verses are Muslims instructed to fight against Christians and Jews, to “smite the necks” of the Unbelievers, to “fight them” wherever Muslims find them, to “strike terror” in their hearts? Muslims are instructed, too, not to take Christians and Jews as friends, for they are friends only with each other. And when Muslims are told, in the Qur’an, that they are the “best of people” and non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings,” why would they not believe it? It’s the word of God.
Pope Francis appears to be moving, glacially, almost imperceptibly, toward the recognition that Islam is not quite as peaceful as he has claimed in the past. He has suggested this by failing to mention, and exculpating, Islam, as he usually does, in his statement about the Strasbourg Christmas Market attacks. He still has a long way to go to undo the remarkable series of misstatements about the faith he has previously made. Whether he will finally begin to grasp the essential nature of Islam, as terrorist attack follows attack, or whether he will revert to his previous position as Defender of the Faith[of Islam], remains to be seen.
As for Imam Drouiche, he’s the embodiment of the Good Muslim, who wants so much to believe that these Muslim terrorists are “ignorant people full of hatred.” But they are not “ignorant” of what is to be found in the Qur’an — they are very aware of its contents, and of their duty to follow it — and as a consequence, they are “full of hatred” toward all non-Muslims. Imam Drouiche can’t allow himself to believe this, much less to admit it publicly. He senses that deep trouble is coming because “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.”
But the “profound crisis” is that there is no “crisis” for most Muslims. They reject all criticism of Islam as “racism” and “Islamophobia.” They dismiss Unbelievers who dare to suggest that some parts of the Qur’an, denouncing Jews and Christians, should be rendered “obsolete.” When 300 French intellectuals and political figures wrote an open letter this spring requesting just that, Muslims all over France reacted with rage. They do not seem inclined to agree with Imam Drouiche that Islam is in a state of crisis.
And who would select this “new wise and intelligent elite” that Imam Drouiche suggests needs to be established among Muslims? Imam Drouiche gives no clue. And how exactly would this Muslim “elite” help Islam to become “free and humanized”? What do such words mean, if not that this elite should have the ability to remove, or abrogate, or contextualize so that they apply only to enemies in 7th century Arabia, the many verses in the Qur’an that command hatred of, and Jihad against, Infidels? And how does Imam Drouiche propose to convince 1.5 billion Muslims, many of them deeply reactionary, to accept these textual changes to the Qur’an? And when he says “we can still save the situation in Europe, but I’m not too optimistic,” what does this mean? I take it to mean that Muslims in Europe will have to change their attitudes and their behavior if they wish to continue to be endured by the non-Muslims whose countries they have entered by the millions, and that if they do not do so, large-scale violence — a civil war between Muslims and Unbelievers — might eventually ensue.
It’s a grim prediction. But we are already part-way there. Isn’t Europe, right now, already in thrall in many ways to Muslims and their duplicitous defenders, who have managed to label rational islamocriticism as “racism” and “Islamophobia”? How, in such an atmosphere that stifles all dissent, can anyone believe that Islam,the religion of 1.5 billion people, can be reformed by a self-appointed Muslim “elite,” its members akin to Imam Drouiche, who deplores Muslim attitudes and behavior but cannot allow himself to put the blame where it belongs, and has belonged for 1,400 years, on the texts of Islam itself?
Terry Gain says
Imam Drouiche insists that Islam itself is innocent of hatred and violence. His religion is held “hostage” by these crazy extremists — “ignorant people full of hatred.”
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Islam is held hostage by its adherents who have read the Koran. Unfortunately for Islam, Muhammad invented a god who chose an objectively evil man as his prophet and proclaimed this objectively evil man as his role model. So Muslims are left with a god who doesn’t know the difference between good and evil. It’s much too late to revise the War Manual known as the Koran. The history of evil done in the name of the god of this “holy book” is too massive to overcome. The only way out for rational Muslims is apostasy. Given the complete lack of leadership of the Marxist Pope and other Christian leaders it is my impression that most ex-Muslims are choosing atheism.
Rufolino says
The imam is an excellent example of self-delusion, and how powerful and unmoveable such delusions can be.
It is best to leave such people behind because no amount of logic, discussion, or argument, dislodges “high-minded” illusions such as this.
The crazy pope is another specialist in high-minded delusions which make the proponents feel noble and virtuous.
Michael Copeland says
Perhaps a new kind of Oscar award is needed.
mortimer says
Drouiche says, “my religion is hostage in the hands of ignorant people full of hatred.”
Hey, Cupcake, did you ever hear of AL WALAA WAL BARAA, Islam’s doctrine of APARTHEID and hatred directed against non-Muslim kafirs ???
Do you think we believe you if say AN IMAM has NOT HEARD of AL WALAA WAL BARAA?
Out of 1,000,000 mullahs, you must be the only one who did not study AL WALAA WAL BARAA.
And … no we think you know what it is and you are USING TAQIYYA.
Rufolino says
“Hey, cup-cake !” . (I like it !)
gary fouse says
Where is the Muslim Martin Luther? Where is the Muslim million man army that will rise up and destroy the terrorists?
When Luther launched the Reformation, he was not rejecting the Bible or Jesus. He was rebelling against the corruption of the Vatican and their corrupt indulgence practice. How do you reform Islam without rejecting Mohammad and most of what is in the Koran? You can’t.
mortimer says
GF, The Islamic world had its own reformation in the early 1700s. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab was the equivalent of Martin Luther who led a ‘back to basics’ movement centered on the PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS.
Wahhabism revived the Islamic world by removing all additions to Mohammed’s teachings that came into Islam in the hundreds of years after the first three generations of Islam. Wahhabism is similar to Puritanism in Christianity, a return to basics.
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (/wəˈhɑːb/; Arabic: محمد بن عبد الوهاب; 1703 – 22 June 1792) was a religious leader and theologian from Najd in central Arabia who founded the movement now called Wahhabism.
dan christensen says
” — a civil war between Muslims and Unbelievers — might eventually ensue.”
Not before a critical level of muslims is reached. Some say 10%, others 20%. However, numbers alone is nor enough to win a civil war. These wars require small arms in huge numbers plus safe areas, where fighters may retreat and get fresh ammo.
The muslims do currently not possess the required amount of weaponry. Also, their ghettos, enclaves, segregated areas or whatever you call them are constantly vulnerable to attack from the surrounding Christian parts; the Christians can just shut down electricity and water in the infested areas.
Foresight and prudence must be applied to ensure, that muslims never will get any small arms and never will be able to seal off their muslim enclaves. The best measure is always to keep their numbers down to a manageable amount, depending on your military capability.
Rufolino says
All depends on whether the Moslem militia might get help from weaponry operated by, and issuing from, a sympathetic Moslem power abroad.
If such a conflict began in Germany involving resident Turkish Moslems, Erdogan might offer some kind of support for “his” nationals.
In any event, a potential European catastrophe is in the offing.
Walter Sieruk says
For pope Francis to in any way shape or form to try to cover- up the Islamic nature of that jihad attack in the city market of Strasburg, France is despicable and unconscionable of him. Shame on him. Those malicious and vicious shooting murder jihad attacks in Strasburg by that jihad-minded Muslim reflects the teaching of the “holy book” of Islam, the Quran. As, for example, the Quran instructs in Sura 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Nevertheless, the apologists for Islam still have the gall to make the claim the “Islam is a peaceful religion.” What an outlandishly false claim to make , again shame on Pope Francis
Battle says
Iman Druiche is going to have to counter abrogation with an interpretation giving the Mecca verses priority.
Bruce Donaldson Scott says
Drouiche is lying, as he must, according to the Quran.