Her last few sentences give her away: “It would be very problematic if we were to see it [the Islamic State] as relating to Islam and say that these people hate the West because they are Muslims. Thatʹs exactly what they want. They want a religious conflict to arise. We should not do them the favor.”
The Muslims of the Islamic State, and of every other Muslim terrorist group, do indeed hate the West, or rather hate all Infidels, including those outside the West, because that is what they have been taught.That is what the Qur’an — see, as noted in the first part of this piece, such representative verses as Qur’an 2:191-193, 4:89, 8:12, 8:60, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4, 98:6 which have taught them, to despise “the most vile of creatures,” to hate them, and to make war upon the Infidels. Their goal has not changed in 1,400 years: to subjugate first this Infidel land and then that, and to continue to wage Jihad until Islam everywhere dominates, and Muslims rule, everywhere.
Souad Mekhennet says that it is these fanatics who are trying to turn this into a “religious conflict.” No, they are not “trying” to turn it into a religious conflict. It always was a religious conflict, as far as Muslims are concerned. They have been engaged in this religious conflict — jihad against the Infidels — for 1,400 years. In the Middle East, in North Africa, in Spain, in France as far as Tours in 732 A.D., in Sassanian Persia, in the Byzantine Empire, in Hindustan, in Afghanistan, and beyond into the East Indies. They are waging Jihad now, not just through terrorism, though that unsurprisingly receives the greatest attention, but also employing many other instruments of warfare, including propaganda (e.g., the invention of the “Palestinian people”), diplomacy (the Oslo Accords, the Iran deal), economic boycotts (the “oil weapon” in 1973, the BDS movement), and he latest arrow in the quiver is demographic Jihad, which has been made possible by the catastrophic admission of millions of Muslims, who arrive, settle, and proceed to outbreed their Infidel hosts, right in the historic center of our civilization, Western Europe.
Soued Mekhennet is pushing a bewildering line we have heard, and many have despaired over, since 9/11. It is that we mustn’t “let the terrorists win” by thinking that “these people hate the West because they are Muslims. Thatʹs exactly what they want.” And since we must never do “exactly what they want,” under no conditions should we conclude that Muslims hate non-Muslims because that is what they have been taught. The absurdity is palpable. Let’s not get confused. Here’s what many Muslims, whether they are in or out of IS or Al-Qaeda, want: They want to wage war, using all manner of means, including terrorism, propaganda, diplomacy, economic warfare, and demography, against Infidels, and at the same time to sow confusion among them. What “they want” is simply to continue to be admitted in by the generous welfare states of the West, allowed to settle deep behind what they have been taught to regard as enemy lines, and all the while, to keep their Infidel victims from clearly grasping the nature of the war without end that is being waged against them. For they want to delay the day of recognition, when the Kuffar, realizing that they cannot either integrate their Muslim population, or “de-radicalise” the potentially most dangerous Muslims in their midst, decide both to halt all further Muslim immigration, and to take steps to send back to their countries of origin those who were so carelessly allowed in. The carrot of a one-time payment to Muslim immigrants to return home could be combined with the stick of requiring these economic migrants to work, assigning them to the most menial of tasks — clean-up crews for highways, sanitation men, ditch diggers. And if they refuse to accept such work, they should be stripped of benefits, steadily and systematically, until few of those generous benefits are left. The welfare states of Western Europe were created for, and paid for through taxes by, their native non-Muslims. Those benefits ideally ought to be theirs alone.
One more time, let’s note what Souad Mekhennet told her interviewer from Deutsche Welle at the very end of the interview:
“It would be very problematic if we were to see it [IS] as relating to Islam and say that these people hate the West because they are Muslims. Thatʹs exactly what they want. They want a religious conflict to arise. We should not do them the favor.”
What is that word “problematic” supposed to mean? Is it a way of saying “bad” or “unacceptable” without coming right out and using those words? Does it carry as well the meaning “it will make for problems and we don’t want that”? What we want to know is whether or not the statement that “these people [Muslim terrorists] hate the West because they are Muslims” is true, or false; that is all that matters. The statement is true: more than 100 Qur’anic verses command Muslims to wage Jihad whenever they can, and over 1,400 years Muslims have dutifully done so. Souad Mekhennet cannot convince us to ignore, as she does, either the Qur’anic text, or the acts that naturally were prompted by those texts.
Some Muslims don’t care if we recognize the nature, and centrality, of Jihad in Islam. They are perfectly willing to announce to the world their goal of destroying the Unbelievers, and why they are doing what they do, often citing sura and ayat. Abu Bakr Al-Baghadi, Anwar Al-Awlaki, and Anjem Choudary are examples of Muslims who have been forthright about their intentions. Many other Muslims, however, would prefer that we Infidels be kept in the dark, and whistling, for as long as possible, until Muslim numbers in the West are so great that non-Muslims will be unable to regain control of their own countries. They keep denying that there is any religious conflict; they tell us again and again, in the face of all the evidence from texts and from history, how Islam means peace, means tolerance, means no compulsion in religion, means getting along splendidly with “other faith communities.” Ask-A-Muslim Anything, and that’s what he’ll tell you, not because he believes it, but because he wants you to believe it. For these Muslims, who prefer to deploy taqiyya and tu-quoque, as they continue waging a Stealth Jihad, with more than 40 million Muslims now living in Europe and outbreeding their hosts, it is best that we Infidels not recognize that we are in a war — neither Theresa May nor Angela Merkel understands that war is being waged on their people from within — nor that we grasp, in sufficient numbers, the true nature of that war as a “religious conflict.” This buys the Jihadis time. Souad shoudn’t mind if we re-purpose her words: That’s exactly what they want. We should not do them the favor.
Michael Copeland says
Souad Mekhennet is promoting her own brand of Fantasy Islam. It is at variance with the facts.
Two quotations for her:
“We are at war and I am a soldier” – London 7/7 bomber
“What part of “kill” don’t they understand?” – Walid Shoebat
Warrenraymond99@gmail.com says
It’s not Fantasy Islam. It’s counter propaganda.
mortimer says
Agree with WR. Souad Mekhennet has no real political insights regarding political Islam. Her approach is merely denial, namely, not to call political Islam ‘political’. I don’t believe she is unaware of political Islam, so I think she’s been hired by someone to be a poster girl for a supposed ‘modern’ and ‘progressive’ Islam that she herself does not practice. Souad Mekhennet is living the life of a virtual kafir, having kafir friends and working side-by-side with kafirs every day. Her basic thrust is ‘Don’t say bad things about Islam … it’s just a harmless, lil ol’ religion.’
And the fellow behind the curtain in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ said, ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.’ That’s precisely what Souad Mekhennet is doing. She doesn’t want us to listen to the jihadists when they explain to us that they are the true representatives of Islam.
We are supposed to take all that on the mere word of Souad Mekhennet, a graduate in international studies.
Souad Mekhennet is, however, not a graduate in Islamic studies, is she?
mortimer says
Islam is INTRINSICALLY and PREDOMINANTLY “POLITICAL”.
Islam is a religious POLITY or a political religion. The MOSQUE and the STATE are inseparably entwined and united in Islam.
Islam is a ‘DEEN’ … a politico-religious form of ‘GOVERNANCE’. (Deen=governance or legal system)
mortimer says
66% of Muslims worldwide already want the imposition of Sharia law and a caliphate. Is that not a sufficient example of RELIGIOUS SUPREMACISM?
BegrensEuropa! says
This lady tells newspapers and universities what they want to hear, including The New York Times, Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, The Washington Post, German television channel ZDF, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and the Geneva Center for Security Policy or wherever else people in key positions in media and learning prefer to spread ignorance rather than truth. Of course she knows better, so we must question her honesty. A serious charge for a journalist, especially where the issue of jihad is concerned.
thebigW says
Yeah, she ain’t ignorant of the stealth jihad, like Hugh Fitzgerald thinks she is (see my comment in Part 2). If Hugh is so willing to claim to know what “many other” Muslims are thinking without actually knowing, why doesn’t he just do the same with this Muzzlima and any and all damn Muslims?
We should assume she’s doing taqiyya, if we don’t convince our fellow Westerners that ALL Muslims (not “many”) are in this war against us, we’ll be doing our part to help them buy time for the day in the future when they can and will slaughter us
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gravenimage says
thebigW, you are mistaken in believing that the savvy Hugh Fitzgerald is ignorant of Taqiyya. He makes it quite clear above that he is not.
mortimer says
It IS ‘taqiyya’. Souad Mekhennet is claiming that Mohammed did not create a political state. The Islamic calendar starts at the moment when Mohammed inaugurated the Islamic empire.
About 51% of the primary source texts are political in nature.
dan christensen says
Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words.
The doublespeak of Soued Mekhennet is pathetic. Maybe it is a female trait of hers – never say directly what you mean – never get caught expressing your real views on anything, except possibly what time it is.
mortimer says
Agree with dan. Souad Mekhennet is certainly aware that Islam is highly IDEOLOGICAL and POLITICAL. How could she not know that since she studied INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS and currently holds fellowships with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
I now believe Souad Mekhennet is being hired to produce disinformation about Islam and jihad.
Ade Fegan says
Sickening pro-sharia police
The only non muslim case of FGM ever
and they prosecuted
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47094707?fbclid=IwAR3mXaGhk9sPxFW8EaFEuc_wXvG8b4TqilE6yLzvJX7VaymP3NG6-8QGPdw
gravenimage says
More Taqiyya.
mortimer says
Yes, GI, but who is paying her to whitewash Islam? That is the only explanation that makes sense.
thebigW says
You think a Muzzlim needs to be paid to to jihad of the lying tongue?
Ronyvo says
Souad, OK. First of all we, the infidels, first have to decide if Islam is a religion. If it is then HOW we are going to apply your reasoning? Islam is extremely hateful and violent supported by the Koran.
Second of all, If Islam is not a religion, which obviously is not, the Islamists will lose the right to be protected by all our laws regarding religion. I would love to se this happen.
UNCLE VLADDI says
ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS!
“Terrorism” is really only the simple crime of “extortion” writ large!
(Extortion is “threats” and perpetual extortion is called “slavery”)!
All group rights must come with group responsibilities.
When you describe yourself as a criminal gangster who asserts it’s his holy right and duty to extort, enslave, and murder all the non-members of your gang, you get judged for that threat, because death-threats are already crimes.
And that sums up islam.
ALL Muslims are MURDERER-GANG MEMBERS. Their Quran COMMANDS murder. Therefore the only good Muslims are dead ones. Unless they only only commit “moderate” murder. Then only give them “moderate” executions.
ALL muslims are criminals, simply by being members of the world’s largest and most ancient yet ongoing crime-gang.
By their own sharia “law” (crime) rules, ALL muslims are supposed to be seen as “Objects of Fear” by ALL infidels, all the time!
Being a member of a crime-gang is a crime, even if the member hasn’t committed any specific crime beyond that of their general membership, because they represent the inherent public threat the crime-gang presents. It’s the LAW. Everything muslims pretend to believe is “holy” is already a crime!
Islam is a monolithic crime-creed, with instructions in their war and crime-manual applying to all aspects of their holy mobster “muslim” minions’ lives. Its management is not a top-down affair.
Each and every one of them knows their obligations to the tribe and knows they are at war with us. The Qur’an sentences us all to “Death By Muslim!” for our “crime” of simply not being muslims ourselves!
Would we bother to separately arrest and try each and every individual member of a crime-gang or ARMY which had officially declared war on us and was openly attacking us?!
IN SUM:
People should just read the Qur’an: It orders ALL MUSLIMS to extort, enslave, and murder you for your “crime” of not-being a muslim.
Anyone who admits they’re a member of a gang whose sworn, official purpose for existing is to extort, enslave, and murder you – embodies and embraces a permanent death-threat. And offensive death-threats are CRIMES.
Even if the threat fails to convince, it’s still at least a form of ATTEMPTED extortion, and all attempted crimes are still crimes, no?
Source-cited Proof of this?
Muhammad, speaking as “allah,” commands striking terror in 8.57 & 8.60, and swore he would cast it in 3.151 & 8.12 and that he cast terror in 33.26 & 59.2. Moe said he was made victorious with terror, as quoted in Sahih Bukhari 4.52.220. Since obedience, imitation and emulation of Muhammad are commanded, and since Allah rewards acts of terrorism with Brownie Points in 9.120, every Muslim is a terrorist.
CAPISCE?
Without devout “muslims” to enact it’s commands, the Qur’an is only an old book.
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This is how liberals argue – that, despite the mountains of evidence and bodies, they want each and every muslim to be prosecuted individually, and only if they have been caught committing a specific crime. Because extortionist gangster liberal criminals also want group membership (gang) rights without any group responsibility.
But in reality, anyone who admits they’re a member of a gang whose sworn, official purpose for existing is to extort, enslave, and murder you (i.e: islam) – embodies and embraces a permanent death-threat.
And offensive death-threats are CRIMES.
Even if the threat fails to convince the average delinquent criminally negligent liberal, it’s still at least a form of ATTEMPTED extortion, and all attempted crimes are still crimes, no?
And aren’t there laws about being complicit willing accessories both before and after the crimes, too?
Shouldn’t gang membership qualify automatically as same?!
Otherwise, a getaway car driver was only driving a car, and the lookout was only loitering, at most.
The chop-shop guy could pretend he sincerely believed “Carjack Bob” simply bought a new car every day, didn’t like it, and wanted to dispose of it!
UNCLE VLADDI says
The Qur’an clearly and very specifically tells muslims the Bible is wrong and also that all Christians and Jews are infidel criminals who worship a false god, and who must therefore be extorted, enslaved, and murdered for their “crime” of not being muslims:
Sura (Chapter) 47:1-4 of the Qur’an:
1: non-muslims are bad, (allegedly because they insult allah by dividing his nature*);
2: muslims are good, (allegedly because to them allah is the cause of everything*);
3: Allah made them both like that;
4: So muslims should chop off the non-muslims’ heads.
(“Allah could have done it himself, but he wants you muslims to do it for him”).
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It’s all right there, in context: islamic violence is entirely general doctrine-driven, and not at all specific grievance-driven.
(And chapter 47 isn’t by any stretch even remotely the worst, most violent chapter; that honor goes to either chapter 8 or 9; 9:29 demands all non-muslims be fought, extorted, and enslaved because they don’t believe in Muhammad’s ‘allah’).
That is, the Qur’an demands muslims wage offensive war – not in self-defense – but because of others’ “disbelief!”
For instance:
9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the Ist, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islâmic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikûn (see V.2:105) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salât (Iqâmat-as-Salât), and give Zakât, then leave their way free. Verily, Allâh is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
9:14. Fight against them so that Allâh will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of a believing people,
9:29. Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
9:120. It was not becoming of the people of Al-Madinah and the bedouins of the neighbourhood to remain behind Allâh’s Messenger (Muhammad when fighting in Allâh’s Cause) and (it was not becoming of them) to prefer their own lives to his life. That is because they suffer neither thirst nor fatigue, nor hunger in the Cause of Allâh, nor they take any step to raise the anger of disbelievers nor inflict any injury upon an enemy but is written to their credit as a deed of righteousness. Surely, Allâh wastes not the reward of the Muhsinûn
Muslims are commanded to hurt us in any way they can and are promised Brownie Points for it.
So don’t go looking for what actions of yours may have offended or provoked them; they have been taught from birth that your existence alone offends their god, and so should offend them.
Muslims have been officially taught to believe that they are the “best of people” (Qur’an 3:110) and that unbelievers are the “most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6).