The death threats that a Christian asylum seeker in Canada continues to receive from Muslims recall the statements of a Muslim cleric who claimed that Muslims who kill Infidels deserve some punishment, but never the death penalty:
During a January 7, 2017 address at the Al-Khulafa Al-Rashideen Mosque in Sixth of October City near Cairo, Egyptian cleric Samir Hashish referred to a hadith in Sahih Al-Bukhari that says that Muslims should not be put to death for killing infidels, and he said that some people use this hadith to justify killing non-Muslims. He explained that this is a distortion of the hadith, which actually only means that the death penalty may not be applied in such cases, while other punishments should still be applied. He added that Muslims are not put to death for killing infidels because their blood is worth more. The video was recently posted online.
Following are excerpts:
Samir Hashish: ‘There is a hadith that says: “No Muslim may be killed for killing an infidel.” Some people say that a Muslim who perpetrates a crime in a house of worship of non-Muslims has nothing to worry about, because a hadith in Sahih Al-Bukhari exempts him from punishment and justifies his deed. In other words, he perpetrates this act because he believes that it is permitted by the Hadith that says: “No Muslim may be killed for killing an infidel.” Obviously, this is a deception.”
This is meant, believe it or not, to be a reading of the Hadith of Bukhari that should please non-Muslims. For that Hadith does not mean, Samir Hashish contends, that you are permitted to go out and kill Infidels with impunity, as apparently a number of Muslims have believed. Those Muslims who claim that they can kill Infidels and have “nothing to worry about” are reading the Hadith wrongly. No, claims Samir Hashish — that Muslim will be punished. It’s just that he won’t be put to death for killing an Infidel. That would be wrong. For the blood of a Muslim is worth more than the blood of an Infidel.
Hashish repeats his single point, many times over, and hardly varying the language:
“So what’s the story behind this hadith? It doesn’t mean that if someone kills a person from the People of the Book unjustly, he is committing a legitimate act. The hadith does not say that this is a legitimate act. The hadith merely excludes the death penalty from the possible punishments. If a Muslim kills a non-Muslim without a legitimate reason… Is he wrong to do so? Yes. Should he be punished? Yes. However, he should not be given the death penalty. The judge may give him any deterring punishment in his case, with the exception of the death penalty. Why? Because of the hadith that says that no Muslim may be killed for killing an infidel. Why is that? Because their lives are not worth the same. The blood of Muslims is more important. If you want to call this “racism,”fine. Of course the blood of Muslims is more important.”
Hashish is what you could call a “moderate” cleric. He actually believes it is wrong to kill a non-Muslim without a legitimate reason. Imagine that. And not only is it wrong, but a Muslim should even be punished for killing a non-Muslim. That’s a truly “moderate” view. He should be given a “deterring punishment” — one likely to keep him from killing a non-Muslim again. What might such a punishment be like? Hashish doesn’t say. Possibly a few years in jail? Yes, that might be just the sort of deterrence called for. A Muslim judge would no doubt agree. Muslim mobs, outside the courthouse, and always determined to see justice done, would not accept anything more.
The less moderate view is the one that says Muslims are not only allowed but commanded to kill Muslims — to “fight them” and “to strike at their necks” in many Qur’anic verses (e.g. 2:191-194, 4:89, 8:12, 8:60, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4). If you are commanded to kill Infidels in the Qur’an, goes the thinking, then surely you should not be punished for following the express dictates of Allah. After all, Allah Knows Best.
Samir Hashish does not agree. That’s what makes him a “moderate.” He thinks Muslims should be punished if they kill non-Muslims. Not, of course, with their own lives, because — as he says many times in two paragraphs — Muslim blood is worth more than the blood of a non-Muslim. Why it it worth more, again? Just because. Oh, well, that’s all the proof any Muslim needs. Also sprach Hashish. But some punishment, not too harsh, mind you, just enough to deter.
And what happens when, in a trial of a Muslim for killing a non-Muslim, the defense introduces the Qur’anic verses commanding the fighting against — and killing — of Infidels? Samir Hashish doesn’t say.
elee says
His proposed innovation has probably earned him a fatwa or two that we dont know about yet. Does he claim to know better than the eternal truth of al Lah? Has it not been established for centuries that there is no retaliation for a Muslim who kills a kafir? K 3.155; K 2:217. The Reliance of the Traveller is both explicit and authoritative on this point. He is sowing discord in dar-es-salaam, clearly a crime worse than murder. Unless Im mistaken, his days are nmbered.
V.O. A says
I am grateful that the real God, Jesus…..Almighty God sees all humans as valuable. In fact He even died for the muslims too.
mortimer says
In the April 9, 2002 issue, The Wall Street Journal published the concept of blood money in Saudi Arabia. If a person has been killed or caused to die by another, the latter has to pay blood money or compensation, as follows.
100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man
50,000 riyals if a Muslim woman
50,000 riyals if a Christian man
25,000 riyals if a Christian woman
6,666 riyals if a Hindu man
3,333 riyals if a Hindu woman
According to this hierarchy, a Muslim man’s life is worth 33 times that of a Hindu woman. This hierarchy is based on the Islamic definition of human rights and is rooted in the Quran and Sharia (Islamic law). How can we talk of democracy or ‘compatibility’ when the concept of equality in Islam is nonexistent?
mortimer says
Arab racial superiority is the SUNNA of the false prophet of Islam … ISLAM IS OFFICIALLY RACIST …
Al-Tabari–Arabs are the most noble people in lineage, the most prominent, and the best in deeds. We were the first to respond to the call of the Prophet. We are Allah’s helpers and the viziers of His Messenger. We fight people until they believe in Allah. He who believes in Allah and His Messenger has protected his life and possessions from us. As for one who disbelieves, we will fight him forever in Allah’s Cause. Killing him is a small matter to us.
Ibn Timiyya–If the child is not of the race of Arabs, then he is definitely an owned slave according to the scholars, but the scholars disputed (his status) among themselves if he was from the Arabs – whether he must be enslaved or not because when A’isha (Muhammad’s wife) had a maid-slave who was an Arab, Muhammad said to A’isha, `Set this maid free because she is from the children of Ishmael.'”
Ibn Sa’d–Verily the Prophet said: God divided the earth in two halves and placed (me) in the better of the two, then He divided the half in three parts, and I was in the best of them, then He chose the Arabs from among the people, then He chose the Quraysh from among the Arabs, then He chose the children of ‘Abd al-Muttalib from among the Banu Hashim, then he chose me from among the children of ‘Abd al-Muttalib, and from them he chose me.
Michael Copeland says
Arabs are “a savage nation due to their ways of savagery that have become ingrained in them”.
Ibn Khaldun
MikeyParks says
The blood may be worth more, but the people it’s in are basically worthless.
elee says
For threatening my child, unborn and unnamed, You aint worth the blood that is flowing in your veins. B. Dylan , Masters of War
Westman says
The man is well named. Hashish – the concentrated resin from the flowering tops of female hemp plants (Cannabis sativa or C. indica) that is smoked, chewed, or drunk for its intoxicating effect.
We infidels aren’t smokin’ the pot. There, is, I understand, a politician who smokes but does not inhale. Try there.
Angemon says
As for what constitutes a “legitimate reason”, he stays silent…
Jack Strohbach says
… and a brain of a lieral is worth more too – it’s never been used!
toomanyhobbies says
well he is sort of right.. there are way more bounties on them than anyone else…. so yeah….
gravenimage says
“Moderate” Samir Hashish: Blood of Muslims Worth More Than That of Infidels
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This is, unfortunately, mainstream Islam.