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Austere Religious Scholar or Muslim Master of Mayhem? Or Both?

Oct 29, 2019 8:00 am By Mateen Elass

The Washington Post has unwittingly demonstrated the truth that Islam is not a religion of peace, a message it has been loath to acknowledge.

On Sunday, it carried the obituary of self-styled ISIS Caliph Ibrahim, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, under this original headline: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State’s ‘terrorist-in-chief,’ dies at 48. Inexplicably, a few hours later, it revised the headline to read, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48. After unremitting sarcasm on Twitter and other social media sites, the Post editors reconsidered again and ran the obituary under a third headline: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48.

So, which was he? An austere religious scholar or the terrorist-in-chief extremist leader of the most vicious and diabolical terror organization in modern history? The answer is, both.

This does not sit well with most Westerners, who think of austere religious scholars as those locked away harmlessly in monasteries or ivory towers minding their own business among ancient, dusty tomes, having nothing to do with beheadings, rapes, torture, slavery and the leading of totalitarian conquests on bloody battlefields. In none of the major world faiths are religious scholars linked with the vile behaviors associated with terrorism — except Islam. Why?

Because Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was both the leading teacher of Islam, as its prophet, and the preeminent exponent of violent conquest (jihad), as the ruthless leader of its armies. Since in the Qur’an Allah highlights Muhammad as an Uswa hasana (excellent example) to be followed by all who wish to curry divine favor, and since Islam honors him with the title al-Insan al-Kamil (which translates roughly as “the perfect man”), Muslims strive to shape their lives according to his model.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took this to heart, and became a scholar-terrorist in the mould of his hero. There is no question that in the eyes of the Islamic world he was a true religious scholar — he obtained his B.A., Masters degree and Ph.D. in Islamic studies from the Islamic University of Baghdad.

Few Muslims have studied their religion with the rigor and verve evidenced by al-Baghdadi. There is also no question that this man pursued jihad and ran a massive jihadi terror group strictly according to the example of Muhammad as found in the Qur’an, Hadith traditions, early Muslim biographies of the prophet, and the rulings of official Islamic law, the Shari’a. One might say he was the paragon of Islamic scholar-terrorists, a chip off the prophetic block.

The Post obituary described al-Baghdadi’s influence thusly: ” During his tenure, the Islamic State would come to mirror its leader: a messianic figure drawn to the harshest interpretations of Islamic texts and seized with the conviction that all dissenters should be put to death. But this is only a superficial analysis. The fact is that ISIS came to mirror its leader in all its gory, religiously-inspired evil, only because its leader was mirroring the founder of Islam, who among other depravities commanded infidels to be beheaded, approved and participated in the enslavement of others, authorized his marauders to rape captive women, ordered the assassination of foes whose mockery got under his skin, threatened recalcitrant soldiers with eternal hellfire if they refused jihad assignments, declared proudly, “I have been made victorious through terror,” and so much more.

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  1. Terry Gain says

    Oct 29, 2019 at 9:00 am

    Austere religious scholar and self – styled Islamic leader who emulated Muhammad kills himself and his 3 children when cornered like a dirty rat by freedom fighting American patriots.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Oct 29, 2019 at 9:14 am

      Hunted down by a dog.

      • Westman says

        Oct 29, 2019 at 12:25 pm

        Considering how many dogs have been killed by Muhammad and his followers, it was poetic justice.

        When this dog is retired it should be offered to the parents of Kayla Meuller, the NGO worker who was raped and paraded by that vile scum, Baghdadi.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Oct 29, 2019 at 5:01 pm

        As Prez DJT so eloquently put it “He died like a dog.” Moslems don’t like dogs. If he ain’t impeached and removed, they should give him the Congressional Medal of Honor for that statement.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 29, 2019 at 8:38 pm

        This dog is my hero.

    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 29, 2019 at 11:17 am

      Terry Gain,

      Yes, “austere religious scholar” and “family man”. (sarc / off)

      • FYI says

        Oct 29, 2019 at 12:35 pm

        At this rate shouldn’t the WP be calling al Baghdadi a “mensch”…?

        Despite his PhD in islamic studies he couldn’t figure out how wrong islam is with its Error-filled “perfect” koran,its catastrophic failure of a “prophet” muhammed,its One legged,Two right handed god al lah{“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54:BIG CLUE there….}

  2. Naildriver says

    Oct 29, 2019 at 10:23 am

    Islam has astonishing appeal to millions with, of course, its male entitlement and limbic enticements; and the devoted to Islam will remind all with whom they promote this plague upon humanity as supported by a billion and half of the world’s population.
    How many embraced communism or the Nazi even as these systems grinded millions of people to violent deaths? Yet most people still do seem to think such ‘democratic’ popularity imbues a system with something to respect. Thus, Islam enjoys this perverse human proclivity to even see its thuggish existence promoted to non Muslim American public school children.
    Out of such mental weakness and upon the victory of killing this vile adherent, Baghdadi, to a system no less vile, Islam, our military takes his dead stinking carcass to a ship, provides a taxpayer paid Muslim cleric and gives him a ceremonious burial at sea — so as to show Muslims we still respect them and Islam.
    Apologists will likely invoke our collective Christian values and even threaten those who would desecrate such a bag of crap with violence — but, it’s a fair question to ask; was it really necessary to give this guy a Muslim attended burial? Is such religious promotion (of an enemy system ) our government’s domain?
    Much of the democraticly elected leadership of this country needs to be charged with treason, and using the laws of the Constitution regarding treason, for aiding and abetting this ancient enemy Islam and its devotees; put in front of 50 caliber machine guns, and blown to smithereens — guts and all splattered! with the MSM playing it on live TV.
    The nature of human greed in conjunction with this proclivity to give respect to popular systems of evil, has perhaps already caused this country to irreparably lose sight of its Constitution’s meaning and purpose — we live in a terrible age of lies and betrayal owing to this major human frailty; greed abetted with good intentions — and it seems fitting a man like Trump is at the helm.

    • LR says

      Oct 30, 2019 at 7:08 am

      This is the second time I hope the Gov’t is lying through it’s teeth. (The other being Osama bin laden)…I hope they threw their wretched bodies into the ocean to be eaten by sharks.

      • LR says

        Oct 30, 2019 at 7:11 am

        PS…Well, whatever pieces were left of that evil bastard.

  3. Wellington says

    Oct 29, 2019 at 10:30 am

    Actually, I would argue that the forever clueless Washington Post stumbled into the truth by calling the Islamic barbarian, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an “austere religious scholar.”

    “Austere” means severe or strict in manner. Baghdadi was this to the hilt. As for being a religious scholar, this bastard was this too, i.e., a religious scholar (and devout believer) of the one major religion which is malevolent and despicable, a religion not of peace and tolerance but rather of (body) pieces and enormous intolerance.

    Way to go WashPo. You fools unwittingly nailed it.

    • Terry Gain says

      Oct 29, 2019 at 10:46 am

      Yes.The WP was rightly mocked for its headline, but assuming that Islam is a religion, it at least told a half truth. Of course, the WP wouldn’t dare say that the terrorist and rapist al- Baghdadi emulated Muhammad.

    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 29, 2019 at 11:14 am

      Wellington,

      Very perceptive, I missed your point when I initially read the headline from the Washington Post.

      According to Islam source texts, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would, indeed, represent the “perfect” Muslim.

  4. Angemon says

    Oct 29, 2019 at 10:44 am

    After unremitting sarcasm on Twitter and other social media sites

    And well earned it was…

  5. mortimer says

    Oct 29, 2019 at 11:23 am

    WaPo is compliant with Sharia blasphemy law which says a dhimmi should not “mention something impermissible” about Islam or its false prophet.

  6. somehistory says

    Oct 29, 2019 at 1:09 pm

    My comment from the other article on this subject from another day previous to this one:

    somehistory says

    Oct 27, 2019 at 2:46 pm

    Well, he did know his religion. And he was “cold, unfeeling, harsh, unfriendly, …” And he certainly was “unadorned.” And ugly, and demonic, and evil, and filthy, and murderous, and uncaring, and….
    one who advocated every other moslim follow in his dirty, filthy footprints…raping, kidnapping, burning, beheading, stabbing, torturing, …all in the name of satan’s beast, islam.

    And now, just like the mass murderer, raper of children he worshipped, he no longer exists.

    And, that is my comment for this thread…in other words, he was well-informed, a devout student of his ‘teacher’ and “god,” the rapist, the mass-murdering fraud who sexually abused…raped…and punched, a little girl. This “bag” of creepy, demonic filth, endeavored to do the same to thousands of little girls, bringing death and destruction, but hiding from those who disagreed with him and his fake ‘god.’

  7. gravenimage says

    Oct 29, 2019 at 8:41 pm

    Austere Religious Scholar or Muslim Master of Mayhem? Or Both?
    ………………….

    Odd that the vast majority of Islamic scholars think like this–or maybe not so odd, given what orthodox Islam teaches.

  8. ronyvo says

    Oct 30, 2019 at 6:33 am

    In my long life, I believed strongly in going FIRST to the SOURCE of the problem before attempting to tackle the problem. The flourishing crimes by Muslims are enhanced by the satanic Koran, which lists the most vicious ways to spread this called ‘religion’. As long as Islam exists the Islamic crimes will continue. I agree with president Trump to rid us of those ‘leaders’ and followers of Satan, who promote and encourage the young to commit these horrible crimes in the name of ISLAM. But, mean time it should be an educational MOVEMEENT spreading THE UGLY TRUTH about Islam. I know that there are many orgs now doing just that. However, the Islam9ic problem was left untouched for such a long time that now requires drastic measures.
    For me, electing the fanatic Muslim Obama for president of the USA and that after 9/11 was a huge disappointment, to say the least, of the general utter ignorance of the MOST dangerous enemy to mankind Islam. The mainstream media mutt be accountable or even forced to report the truth or censorship would apply. We are at war, and it is the most ever dangerous war. It is the third world war and most probably the last.
    God (not allah) help us.

  9. Linde Barrera says

    Oct 30, 2019 at 9:16 am

    I have to wonder how many Muslims work for the Washington Post, as so many of those reporters seem sad that al-Baghdadi is gone. How sick and twisted is that?

  10. Patriotliz says

    Oct 30, 2019 at 10:25 am

    I’m glad Mateen Elass came right out and stated the obvious. WaPo got it right. There is no separate “terroristic” Islam that is at odds with the scholarly interpretation of Islam. Baghdadi and other terrorist jihadists, whether acting out their “faith” in isolation or associated with an established group of Islamic terrorists, can not be delegitimized per the “scholarly” teachings of Islam. Therefore, ISIS = ISLAM.

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