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Pakistan: Muslim clerics declare that “Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism”

Jan 29, 2019 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

In Pakistan, “representatives of political and religious organisations of the country have agreed unanimously to carry out a joint-struggle for the elimination of the menace of terrorism and extremism from the country.”

If these clerics truly wished to “denounce terrorism” and “resolve to end menace,” they would at least start by resolving to end the menace of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and use their influence to free Asia Bibi to live in peace.

“The joint declaration asserted that extremist and terrorist mindset has caused the most harm to Islam and the Muslim world. ‘Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism as teachings of Islam and the Holy Prophet (PBUH) has stressed on seeking moderate way.’”

Most stunning about such bizarre and brazen lies is that they are believed by so many. The clerics don’t seem to have defined “terrorism.” Do they mean the actions of jihadis, or of America and Israel?

As Muhammad said: “War is deceit.” Sahih Bukhari (52:269)

“Clerics denounce terrorism, reiterate resolve to end menace”, by Imran Adnan, Express Tribune, January 28, 2019:

LAHORE: Representatives of political and religious organisations of the country have agreed unanimously to carry out a joint-struggle for the elimination of the menace of terrorism and extremism from the country.

Clerics and representatives of 28 religious and political organisations from Pakistan gathered here on Sunday at Paigham-e-Islam Ulema Mashaykh Convention held under the aegis of the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC). The participants of the convention announced to observe 2019 as the year to mark the ‘annihilation of terrorism, extremism and sectarian violence from the country’.

The convention demanded of the provincial and federal government to resolve the grievances of seminaries and mosques with immediate effect. Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council Chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, who presided over the convention, said that a Dar-ul-Afta (or fatwa council) is being constituted to keep check on issuance of religious decrees in the country through a proper mechanism.

The joint declaration asserted that extremist and terrorist mindset has caused the most harm to Islam and the Muslim world. “Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism as teachings of Islam and the Holy Prophet (PBUH) has stressed on seeking moderate way,” it stated.

The convention also discussed cited the declaration in Islamabad on January 6, in which religious scholars of the country announced unanimously that extremist ideologies should not be associated with Islam and Muslims. The religious leadership of Pakistan has also made it very explicit with the unanimous Paigham-e-Pakistan narrative that Islam and Muslims should not be affiliated with extremism and terrorism.

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  1. Ren says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 9:20 am

    Clouds in the sky have nothing to do with rain.

    • christianblood says

      Jan 29, 2019 at 10:51 am

      (..Islam Is The Religion of Peace..) President Bush

      • b.a. freeman says

        Jan 29, 2019 at 12:07 pm

        junior bush was either a boob or a liar when he said these things. given that he was brought up in a family involved in the oil industry, as well as working in it himself, he had the potential of having had more knowledge than most of the beliefs of the average muslim, although i don’t think that any of the bushes were actively involved with saudis. the bottom line is that mr. bush handled this all wrong; he *should* have emphasized that every human being legally residing in the u.s. is responsible for his own actions, not those of others, and that a republic functions best when all abide by the law, or words to that effect, so as to discourage vigilante action (not that there was any such “retribution”). both the pious in the ummah and the hard-core left have latched on to this lie (“religion of peace”), and use it regularly as a club to silence critics of islam.

        had u.s. citizens been educated in history, mr. bush would either have known that islam is a poisonous pirate cult, or everybody else would have known it and laughed him out of the room, but the left has been prepping u.s. citizens to be good little workers for the state rather than educating them to be free citizens for decades (thank U, mr. dewey), so *very* few of us knew anything about islam. to me, it certainly appears as though the left is using pious muslims as a proxy army to destroy society so that they can seize power. education – TRUE education, not the leftist indoctrination imparted by public schools in the u.s. – is the answer which will give us the most solid foundation of citizens knowledgeable about freedom, but it is too late for that to happen. either we have a civil war (which civilization may not survive, if either the left or the ummah wins), or God will give us another “great awakening” to turn us back to Him; there are no longer any other choices.

        • christianblood says

          Jan 29, 2019 at 12:35 pm

          b.a. freeman

          +1

        • J. Keene says

          Jan 30, 2019 at 3:28 pm

          Where’s the 👍 button when you need it?

      • underbed cat says

        Jan 30, 2019 at 11:27 pm

        I so remember a shorter version of this comment from President Bush days after 9/11. I was shocked, and upset, he had been precisely influenced to be deceived, he did not know the doctrine. It was sharia law and the abrogated verses of the book, that he quoted . Osama got a legal decision from an imam to attack the United States in the quest to restore and conquer. The muslims behind him knew exactly the source of justification for jihad and here we are today still fighting the facts,
        This was a second attempt at the same site,I sure hope he has educated himself away from the fantasy and is aware of the actual goal of our minds to submission and conquest by terror.

    • Lydia Church says

      Jan 29, 2019 at 9:14 pm

      And the sun has nothing to do with heat.
      Sure.

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 9:33 am

    TURHIBUNNA (terrorize them) Koran 8.60

    • christianblood says

      Jan 29, 2019 at 8:05 pm

      mortimer

      What about these tribal thugs scheming to trap and kill the Son of God?
      Could you share a word or two about them since you share their beliefs and their mindset?

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 30, 2019 at 9:12 pm

        christianblood has done this to Mortimer before–implied that if he has an issue with the horrors of Islam that he must be Jewish, and further hate Christ and Christians. Just nuts.

  3. mortimer says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 9:36 am

    Mohammed said, “I was made victorious through TERROR.” – Bukhari 4.52.220

  4. WPM says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 9:58 am

    What is the definition of terrorism in Mainstream Islam anyway
    1-Blasphemy
    2-Being nice and fair in dealing with Jews , Christians and other unbelievers
    3-Not killing your daughter for dating the wrong kind of man (not committing honor killing}

    4-Honoring contacts written and verbal with unbelievers
    5-Having a picture or work of art in your house
    6-Listening to or having in on your person music or musically instruments

    7-Having a dog as a pet especially a bad one

    8- Having Jews or Christians as true trusted friends

    9-Not having a riot over cartoons about Islam or Mohammed view by people living 5000 mile from your mudhut village

    10-Thinking about leaving the religion of Islam

    11-Following any law that is in conflict with Sharia law

    Being extreme is breaking any of those things I listed above that will get you killed by fellow Moslems +plus many others not listed as far as normal Islam is practice in the 7th up to the 21 century today. The Moslems who follow Islam need reassurance from non-Moslems that their faith Islam will never be questioned or examined by non-believers in anyway that shows what a terrible joke it is to follow .

    Off topic but the guy in the middle of the 3 “cleric” does not look like he misses many meals

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 30, 2019 at 9:58 pm

      +1

  5. mortimer says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 9:59 am

    – 15% of Muslims worldwide self-declare as supporting a jihadic terrorist group. Are they ‘extreme’?
    – 2/3 of Muslims worldwide or 1 billion self-declare as wishing a unified, worldwide caliphate. Are they extreme?
    – the leading Islamic scholars of Al Azhar University and Saudi Arabia say they cannot denounce the ideology of ISIS. Are they ‘extreme’?

    ARE TWO-THIRDS OF ALL MUSLIMS ‘EXTREME’?

    ARE ONE OUT OF SIX MUSLIMS ‘EXTREMISTS’, since they support JIHAD-TERRORISM?

    How do Westerners spot jihadic terrorists if even Muslim security agents have trouble spotting them?

    Because we cannot spot Islamist terrorists (except possibly through lie detectors), it is reasonable in our own self-defense to assume that every Muslim may be hiding a jihadic intention.

    • Terry Gain says

      Jan 29, 2019 at 10:08 am

      100% of Islam’s perfect man and role model was a terrorist.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 29, 2019 at 8:20 pm

        +1

    • thebigW says

      Jan 29, 2019 at 3:57 pm

      “– 15% of Muslims worldwide self-declare as supporting a jihadic terrorist group. ”

      100% of Muslims support the biggest, most dangerous terrorist group in the world: Islam. (not “political Islam”, not “radical Islam”, not “Islamism”. Just plain ol’ Islam.

  6. WPM says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 10:02 am

    Fire has nothing to do with heat

    Water has nothing to do with wet

    Islam has nothing to do with terrorism

  7. Jack Cade says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 10:11 am

    Muslims lie. It’s what they do. Oh, and loot, subjugate, rape, murder, commit pedophilia.

  8. mortimer says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 10:11 am

    MOHAMMED USED TERRORISM TO FORCE PEOPLE TO JOIN ISLAM …

    Muhammad told Abu Sufyan: “Woe to you! Accept Islam and testify that Muhammad is the apostle of God before your neck is cut off by the sword.” Thus he professed the faith of Islam and became a Muslim.” – Sira part 4, p11.

    Terrorism is ‘SUNNA’ (sacred example), rather than an aberration. These clerics are wrong.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Jan 29, 2019 at 12:12 pm

      oops, U made a mistake, mortimer; these clerics aren’t wrong – they’re just lying!

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 30, 2019 at 10:15 pm

        +1

  9. dan christensen says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 10:47 am

    But what are the muslim clerics doing to fight extremism and terrorism?
    Precisely as much as their fellow muslim migrants do:
    1) To integrate and assimilate in the civilized countries.
    2) To abstain from plundering the welfare systems in the Western countries they live in.
    3) To enrich the Western countries with “Peas and Loitering”.

  10. Rarely says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 11:11 am

    Yet again it is a matter of definitions. What we call “terrorism” they call “resistance”.
    e.g. 9/11 was an act of “resistance”. Israelis planting crops on what was once land owned by a muslim (or near land once owned by a muslim) is “terrorism” and must be dealt with by “resistance”.
    See? It’s all a very simple matter of self defence.
    Their Dictionary must be a riot.
    “You say tomahto I say tomayto. You say potahto …”.

    • Rarely says

      Jan 29, 2019 at 11:13 am

      Excuse me but I left out the greatest act of terrorism by non-believers – non-believing.
      “We must “resist” that even unto death” they proclaim, “their death”.

  11. FYI says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 11:24 am

    That large guy in the photo?

    He’s been eating all those islamic Donuts hasn’t he?allah will be angry…

    “islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism” say the muslim apologists.

    I think islam’s “prophet” muhammed would completely disagree..

    “I have been made victorious through TERROR”
    Bukhari 4:52:220

    After all,muhammed defined himself as being… a TERRORIST.
    And we have had 1,400 years of “extremism and terrorism”:There are so many Elephants rampaging through the Room of islam:islam is the religion of peace,the koran has no errors in it,muhammed was the perfect man,islam respects other religions…but if you were to point this out to islamic apologists they would say “what’s an Elephant”?

    Yes of course..it is the usual islamic dissembling game..which goes like this..

    iSLAm has nothing to do with IsLAm,which must not be confused with isLAM which of course is completely different to isLam

    If you say iSLAm has something to do with IsLAm,well that’s Just being “islamophobic” , culturally insensitive and hateful isn’t it?

    And

    If you say isLAM is the same as isLam:how dare you!That’s just being racist..
    And the SPLC will put you on their list…{sort of like Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge or the Soviet NKVD or the East German Stasi used to do.Leftards and fascists love lists}

    Sure,islam is THE religion of peace.Let’s go with that….

    And hitler was a Rabbi.

    • thebigW says

      Jan 29, 2019 at 4:00 pm

      “That large guy in the photo?”

      The Ramadan fasting must be like terrorism to him…

  12. Halal Bacon says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 11:24 am

    and the dude in the middle is a Jenny Craig model…

  13. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 11:45 am

    In Pakistan those Muslim clerics who declared the blatant lie that “Islam had nothing to do with terrorism” are outing in practice the Islamic dogma called Taqiyya .This is the Islamic doctrine the deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam in the West.

    In strong contrast to this practice of Taqiyya is the teachings found in the Bible . For the Bible informs its readers in Proverbs 11:18. “The wicked worketh a deceitful work…” Likewise, the very next chapter[12] of the same book of Proverbs it reads in verse 5 “The counsels of the wicked are deceit .” Also further on verse 20 it instructs “Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil…” [K.J.V.]

  14. infidel says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 11:47 am

    ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,,,, I died laughing….

  15. imboonga says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 12:01 pm

    Whew! I’m glad we got that cleared up!

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 29, 2019 at 8:33 pm

      🙂

  16. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 12:05 pm

    As the part of the statement by the Muslim clerics that Islam has nothing to do with “Extremism” is only true in the mindset a Muslim who is thoroughly involved of hard core non-watered down jihad Koran based Islam.

    As had been explained by Brigitte Gabriel , author of the book THEY MUST BE STOPPED, in one of her newsletters she had explain what many Westerners term as an “Extremest,” in the Middle East many Muslims views the same Muslim terrorist not as an “extremist ” but a devout Muslim who are practicing true Islam . In addition, some other Muslims, of the Middle East, view a violent jihadist /Muslim not as as extremist” be as a “normal ” a Muslim, who is only being the way he should be.

    Therefore only in this “Islamic sense” of the word is that is the outlandish statement true that “Islam had nothing to do with extremism.”

  17. James Lincoln says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 12:10 pm

    “Pakistan: Muslim clerics declare that “Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism…”

    There would be no reason for the Muslim clerics to make this very bold declaration if they didn’t feel threatened by the truths propagated by websites like Jihad Watch, etc.

    The truth about Islam is finally starting to trickle out, too late for some countries, not too late for others.

    Western Europe is on a suicidal course, the V4 Visegrad Group is doing just fine, and the United States is somewhere in the middle. Pres. Trump gives us hope – but he has to win again in 2020.

    Italy and Austria may possibly be able to get some semblance of the countries back – but only by taking very drastic measures against Islam.

  18. Phil Copson says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    Nobody regards themselves as being “extreme” – whatever they do, they have rationalised it to themselves beforehand, and regard those who oppose it as being extreme, however sane and normal they are.

    For “clerics” like these, the death of those who oppose them is something normal and desirable, it’s the very existence of anything contrary to their world view that is extreme. Nobody regards themselves as being an “extremist” for using disinfectant on germs, and that is how these people see themselves – industriously wiping away anything that doesn’t fit in with islam by whatever means comes to hand.

    Here in the Europe, thousands of pro-EU politicians and commentators who see nothing remotely wrong in signing away sovereignty, giving a foreign court the power to demand the extradition and imprisonment of their citizens without a national court having any say in the process, immigration running at hundreds of thousands per year, the barbaric torture of little girls through FGM, the setting-up of Shariah courts etc etc etc, and earnestly describe anyone who mildly points out that all these things are wrong, as being “extreme”.

    Even senior British Conservative (supposedly – what have they ever conserved ?) politicians such as the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, describe anyone who wishes to live in a self-governing representative Parliamentary democracy as “extreme”, while ex-Conservative party-leaders such as Michael Howard describes that those of us who don’t subscribe to their Euro-fantasy as being “nutters, fruit-cakes, and closet racists.”. The demented Guardian columnist and bare-faced liar Owen Jones is so far up his own exhaust-pipe that he thinks that wishing to live in a sovereign country is the mark of a fascist.

  19. mgoldberg says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 4:55 pm

    The question that we are not allowed to ask… but now we indeed must.
    How indeed, can all those Imams not know right from wrong??

    Simple.
    They have a different definition for what is right and wrong. And they have no intention of discussing
    it. And people wanting to discuss it, will indeed be threatened and ultimately will be harmed and or killed.

    And the Imams will insist they have nothing to do with terrorism . And Mohammed said, according to the most reliable hadith author, Bukhari that he had been made victorious, thru terror.

    So we had better get this out….

  20. gravenimage says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 8:04 pm

    Pakistan: Muslim clerics declare that “Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism”
    ………………………

    No lie too big, or too bald-faced.

  21. Or Else! says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 8:23 pm

    Islam declares its Qur’an–to the point of violence and murder, if challenged–to be “perfect”. Same for its prophet.

    Until its horrific, supremacist teachings are amended, erased, stricken, no longer downloaded, or prohibited by secular, common sense law, it’s going to plague us all–including its own adherents, who are held lifetime captives by the same totalitarian principles.

  22. Joe says

    Jan 30, 2019 at 6:42 am

    Asia Bibi was not available for comment.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 30, 2019 at 10:17 pm

      +1

  23. c matt says

    Jan 30, 2019 at 3:40 pm

    “Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism”

    Correct – Islam has everything to do with extremism and terrorism.

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