A story some time ago about a mosque in central Connecticut with a 400-student Muslim Sunday school offered a house blend of victimhood and resilience.
More guards are on patrol these days. And for the older students in the transition class, talking about Islamophobia is not only welcomed, but encouraged. The teenagers are in their final years of high school and will be heading off to college soon.
In the first sentence, the theme of Muslim insecurity is introduced: “more guards are on patrol these days” around the mosque. Muslims are threatened, Muslims need to be protected. The next sentence supplies “islamophobia,” that mendacious word used to great effect in order to inhibit all legitimate criticism of Islam.
So before they head out into the “real world,” they aren’t just learning the tenets of Islam, said Dr. Reza Mansoor, their teacher on a recent Sunday. He’s coaching them on how to defend their faith from misconceptions.
“By the way, As-Salaam alaikum,” Mansoor greeted them. “If you use an Arabic term and you don’t translate, dinged one point, OK? So As-Salaam-Alaikum means God’s peace be with you all.”
Mansoor is president of the mosque, called Islamic Association of Greater Hartford, and he is big on translating Islamic phrases and words. Take jihad, for instance. It means a struggle — usually a personal, spiritual one — but if you hear jihad in the media, he said, it’s almost always associated with extremists who commit violence in the name of Islam, like the 9/11 terrorists.
“If you use jihadist for terrorist, you unfortunately give the terrorists… a position much higher than what they are,” Mansoor told his students.
Mansoor, like so many apologists for Islam, wants non-Muslims to believe that “Jihad” refers to a “personal, spiritual struggle.” But 109 Qur’anic verses commanding Muslims to wage violent Jihad, and 1,400 years of many Jihads, conducted uninterruptedly somewhere in the world, against Unbelievers, suggest otherwise. He laments the fact that “when you hear jihad in the media…it’s almost always associated with extremists.” But why shouldn’t it be? Since the Muslim terrorists themselves describe their attacks as Jihads, why shouldn’t we take them at their word? Are we to ignore how members of Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, Boko Haram, Al Shebaab, Al-Nusra Front, Abu Sayyaf, Hamas, and Hezbollah all refer to their respective campaigns as ‘’jihads”?’
“People tend to fear what they don’t know. And when Islam is viewed as a threat, that makes Muslims a target.”
Mansoor’s sympathy is limited to Muslims. It is they who are “a target”; it’s so unfair that Islam should be “viewed as a threat.” Possibly Reza Mansoor is unaware of the nearly 36,000 attacks carried out by Muslim terrorists since 9/11. Given that, it would be madness for people in the West not to view Islam as a “threat.”
Mansoor’s remark that “people tend to fear what they don’t know” has it backwards in the case of Islam. People who know little about Islam — Merkel, Macron, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Pope Francis — are the ones who are most susceptible to minimizing its menace, and remain the most sanguine and the least anxious about the tens of millions of Muslims who have been allowed to settle in the West, deep behind what they have been taught to regard as enemy lines, the lines of Dar al-Harb. It is those who have taken the trouble to read and make sense of the Qur’an and the most important hadith, in the authoritative collections of Al-Bukhari and Muslim, who in addition have learned something about the 1,400-year history of Muslim expansion, who are most alarmed by the steady encroachments of Islam in the West. When it comes to Islam, the more you learn, the more alarmed you become.
Liz says
Nope, nothing to see here. Just ignore the tens of thousands of attacks, ignore the threats, ignore the rape, ignore the pedophilia, ignore the abuse, the amputations, the stoning, the hangings, the bombings, the acid atracks…
– Nope nothing to see here.
jarmanray says
+++++++++++++1 But, please don’t forget so called honor killing.
gravenimage says
Dr. Reza Mansoor started his Taqiyya campaign right after 9/11:
“After the initial revulsion on Sept. 11, Mansoor, a Muslim who grew up in Sri Lanka, got more bad news: Muslims did this. He wondered if non-Muslim Americans would understand that there is nothing Islamic about terrorism. He did not wait to find out. He began speaking in churches and community centers and writing newspaper opinion pieces, and nearly two months later, his speaking schedule is still full.”
“Doctor’s Healing with Words”
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2001-11-10-0111101152-story.html
Notice he aimed his campaign at Infidels. If he *really* believed that his coreligionists were mistaken about Islam, why wouldn’t he be more concerned about teaching others Muslims how they were getting Islam so very, very wrong?
Anne Marie E Volowski says
Teaching jihad.
Don McKellar says
There must be a lot of these classes being taught secretly all over the modern world. Much like Democrats and MSM who all parrot the same carefully crafted spin phrases whenever something happens, so too do moslems.
James Lincoln says
+1
mortimer says
This is promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood. They are fighting a losing battle with their own young people. As soon as young Muslims start examining the arguments that are commonly used against Islam, they begin to realize that those arguments actually hold water.
Many former Muslim apologists have actually been convinced to leave Islam after studying the valid arguments that demolish Islam. This course will have the REVERSE EFFECT on many Muslim young people. They will actually learn why Islam is false from this course.
It will backfire on them … ha, ha.
We see this happening in people like lebel who is slowly losing his faith while reading JihadWatch.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
This is promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood. They are fighting a losing battle with their own young people. As soon as young Muslims start examining the arguments that are commonly used against Islam, they begin to realize that those arguments actually hold water.
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Mortimer, how many young Muslims are critically examining the diktats of their faith? All too many are actually very pious, and even turn towards waging Jihad.
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Many former Muslim apologists have actually been convinced to leave Islam after studying the valid arguments that demolish Islam. This course will have the REVERSE EFFECT on many Muslim young people. They will actually learn why Islam is false from this course.
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This may happen in some cases, but most Muslims who are committed to Islam stay that way, adn are not swayed by what the ‘filthy Infidels’ have to say.
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It will backfire on them … ha, ha.
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Again, perhaps in some cases–but the idea that the preaching of Jihad is actually a good thing because it will supposedly lead all Muslims to leave Islam is *very* questionable.
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We see this happening in people like lebel who is slowly losing his faith while reading JihadWatch.
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*Really*? lebel has been posting here for years, whitewashing Islam, engaging in false Tu Quoque, and sneering at those concerned about Jihad terror. What leads you to believe that he has changed in this? His recent posts are very much like those from years ago.
mortimer says
He is encouraging young people to engage in polemics, thus, they will be exposed to arguments that are irrefutable and which they have not seen before. Once the Muslim mind opens to critical thought, it’s a long process of losing a bit at a time. It’s a process similar to that of a hostage negotiation.
Angemon says
gravenimage posted:
“lebel has been posting here for years, whitewashing Islam, engaging in false Tu Quoque, and sneering at those concerned about Jihad terror. ”
lebel, 2015:
“Can we now agree that if taqqiya really existed, Muslims would do just that in order to fool the naive infidels?”
lebel, 2019:
“By the way, if Taqqiya is real why DONT Muslim say they are against terrorism and Islamic jihad? why not just lie as they are ORDERED to do by Islam?”
Also lebel, 2019:
“This is the simplest answer and of course the likeliest one. Muslims like everyone else have their contradictions. They do not behave in behaviour one can predict by reading Hadith and Sira etc it just does not work that way.“
Also lebel, 2019:
“Do like most Muslims and selectively ignore parts of the religion as is obvious to anyone who as ever travelled to a Muslim country, or watched an Arabic television channel or actually met a live Muslim.”
But remember: when I point out lebel’s dishonesty, I’m simply throwing insults because I have no argument…
gravenimage says
Mortimer, I don’t see Muslim apologists like Zakir Naik embracing critical thought. I wish I did.
True about lebel, Angemon. Thank you. I have not seen any evidence that lebel is losing his faith, or any less avid in spouting apologia for its savagery.
FYI says
“People tend to fear what they don’t know”
So let the people know….
islam is the “religion of PEACE”{no it is not:1,400 years of islamic conquests and violence}
muhamed was a prophet{no he was not:he even laughably FAILED the Poison Test; {see You Tube Acts 17apologetics who killed muhammed?}
the koran has no mistakes on it{oh yes it does…scientific,logical and theological{mary is not part of the trinity,Christians are not polytheists,Jews don’t believe in any “Ezra the son of allah” k9:30..and this priceless koranic gem “Abraham was not a Jew” k3;67 when of course he was Jewish..he couldn’t possibly have been a muslim.
{See alalh’s criterion of k4:82:if you find ANY errors in the koran,implying imperfection that ,means the koran cannot come from God [as God is perfect and cannot make mistakes} :see if you can find errors,,starting with those scientific ones.Hey thanks allah for giving us the criterion which when applied shows the perfect book to be imperfect{muslims won’t get it but ex-muslims certainly will}
And of course remember those games islamic apologists play.
1]Dissembling;Taqqiya,Tawriya,Muruna,Taysin,Daurura
Or bearing FALSE WITNESS as some might call it.
2}The dawa teams telling you Jesus is in the koran”Lo!I am the slave of allah he hath appointed me a prophet and given me the scripture” koran 19:30
It’s a TALKING INFANT.. you can see from the context k19 v23,v29
3}ask the muslims to tell you about muhammed’s FLYING HORSE and how he got from to Jerusalem to mecca k17.1
4}”Oh you infidels don’t know arabic”
{A trick which won’t work in this age of the internet and with arabic speaking ex-muslims who KNOW that islamic apologists fiddle the Arabic,omit words and twist the truth to hide the bogus nature of the koran and islam.
Jihad ?Oh that just means ” a fluffy,cuddly pillow”
jarmanray says
FYI, Maybe I must have missed something in Genesis but I don’t remember reading anything about Islam or even Allah as described in the unholy Qur’an. If Ismail is the origin of Islam, then Muhammad must have been a Jew as well as all early Muslims. I think we could have a field day questioning this Reza Mansoor about this cult and I remember when they started Sunday School particularly when Friday is their day to request Allah’s help to destroy the infidel.
I always appreciate your comments.
jarmanray says
I meant to say that “I don’t remember” when….
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Jihad? Oh, that just means “a fluffy,cuddly pillow”.
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An opportunity for a Muslim entrepreneur: the “MyJihad” pillow. On your TV commercials, be sure to wear around your neck a replica of the instrument of Islamic torture mentioned in Quran 5:33.
mortimer says
COURSE DESCRIPTION (ADVANCED TAQIYYA 401) :
Students will learn how to deflect questions on JIHAD TERRORISM, ISLAMIC MISOGYNY and TAQIYYA ITSELF. Students will increase their ability to use ISLAMIC VICTIMOLOGY, the RACE CARD and NON-SEQUITURS (red herrings) to bamboozle enemies of Islam, the Prophet and Allah. Students will learn how to enforce Sharia law by exploiting SECULAR CONCEPTS like anti-racism, freedom of expression and human rights … things that are the opposite of what Islam actually teaches. The dirty kufaar won’t know what hit them.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
Sometimes you laugh because it’s funny, sometimes you laugh because it’s true…
Angemon says
“Using sleight-of-hand to deflect away from islamic doctrine” would be a more accurate description…
gravenimage says
Yep.
mortimer says
HUGH FITZGERALD incorrectly lumps in Justin Welby (current Archbishop of Canterbury) with clueless leaders who are uniformed about Islam. Justin Welby is actually VERY WELL-INFORMED and well aware of Islamic problems.
https://5pillarsuk.com/2018/02/26/archbishop-of-canterbury-says-islamic-rules-are-incompatible-with-british-laws/
The Archbishop of Canterbury has stated in his new book that “Islamic rules are INCOMPATIBLE with British laws”, which he argues should NEVER become part of the British legal system.
Archbishop Justin Welby also stated that that British law has “underlying values and assumptions” that come from a Christian tradition.
He explained his reasons why Shariah law SHOULD NOT receive an official status in the UK in his book entitled, “Reimagining Britain”.
He also mentions in the book: “Sharia law is not just about punishments.
“It is something of immense sophistication, but it comes from a very different background of jurisprudence to the one from which British law has developed over the past 500 years.
“Sharia, which has a powerful and ancient cultural narrative of its own, deeply embedded in a system of faith and understanding of God, and thus especially powerful in forming identity, CANNOT BECOME PART OF ANOTHER NARRATIVE.
“Accepting it in part implies accepting its values around the nature of the human person, attitudes to outsiders, the revelation of God, and a basis for life in law, rather than grace, the formative word of Christian culture.”
Mr. Fitzgerald, are you convinced?
gravenimage says
While the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was the worst kind of dhimmi, Justin Welby is more of a mixed bag. While what you say above is true, he has also spoken at Mosques, warning that anyone having a problem with Muslims is guilty of blasphemy.
He has also claimed that Islam and Christianity are just the same in inciting of violence, which is clearly false:
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby: London attack link to Islam as Christians killing Muslims is linked to Christianity”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/archbishop-canterbury-justin-welby-london-attack-islam-twisted-misused-muslim-faith-a7772916.html
He refers to Islamic terrorism as a “twisting” of Islamic scripture.
He’s also a big advocate of “interfaith dialog”, where Muslims lie to Jews and Christians.
So–Archbishop Welby is better than his predecessor–but at times this is damning with faint praise.
mortimer says
WHAT’S THE DISTINCTION, MR. MANSOOR ???
“If you use jihadist for terrorist, you unfortunately give the terrorists… a position much higher than what they are,” Mansoor told his students.
So, what exactly is the difference between a *JIHADIST* (mujihadi) and a *TERRORIST*, Mr. Mansoor? We are so breathless to learn.
“TURHIBUNNA” (terrorize them) – Koran 8.60
Perhaps Mr. Mansoor could explain why BRIGADIER S.K. KHAN is wrong in the following …
“Only a strategy that aims at STRIKING TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE ENEMIES from the preparation stage can produce direct results and turn (the) dream (… supposedly… of paralyzing the enemy through terrorism) into a reality.” – Pakistani Brig. S.K. Malik, “Quranic Concept of War”.
PRCS says
Per Hugh:
“it’s almost always associated with extremists.” But why shouldn’t it be?”
*Politely*
Why not?
Because that ‘extremism’ tag is equally mendacious.
Typically–if not always–left undefined, the inattentive are not likely to ask at what point a Muslim’s compliance with Qur’an becomes ‘extremism’.
gravenimage says
At the Islamic Association of Greater Hartford, Young Muslims Coached to Handle the Media (Part 1)
So before they head out into the “real world,” they aren’t just learning the tenets of Islam, said Dr. Reza Mansoor, their teacher on a recent Sunday. He’s coaching them on how to defend their faith from misconceptions.
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What “misconceptions”: might those be? That too many Infidels are learning the truth about Islam?
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Mansoor is president of the mosque, called Islamic Association of Greater Hartford, and he is big on translating Islamic phrases and words. Take jihad, for instance. It means a struggle — usually a personal, spiritual one — but if you hear jihad in the media, he said, it’s almost always associated with extremists who commit violence in the name of Islam, like the 9/11 terrorists.
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That’s because this is how all Muslims not engaged in Taqiyya use this term.
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“People tend to fear what they don’t know. And when Islam is viewed as a threat, that makes Muslims a target.”
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What claptrap–the more people learn about Islam, the more they realize it is to be feared.
And no–Muslims are rarely targets, because the West is very civilized. But Infidels, more and more, are being targeted by Jihadists.
Freida Cottone says
Can someone see who is teaching Muslims how to steal from the child care programs in the us and Australia?
PRCS says
Other Muslims and their ‘useful idiots’.