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Maldives: Three Islamic scholars suspended for encouraging jihad terrorism

Dec 26, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

We are constantly told that Islamic jihad terrorists misunderstand Islam and misinterpret its peaceful teachings. How did these Muslim clerics, who have dedicated their lives to understanding Islam properly, have missed all that peace?

“Preaching licenses suspended as authorities launch counter-terrorism operation,” by Hassan Mohamed, Maldives Independent, December 18, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The Islamic ministry has suspended preaching licenses of three scholars accused of encouraging terrorism as the police and military launched a special operation to raid homes of suspected extremists.

The licenses of Abdul Raheem Mohamed from Noonu atoll Lhohi island, Jaufar Faiz from Addu City and Mohamed Hassan from Gaafu Dhaalu atoll Thinadhoo were suspended on Tuesday. Abdul Raheem and Faiz were “spreading hatred, encouraging inhumane and degrading acts and supporting civil wars in other countries,” the Islamic ministry said in a statement on Tuesday night.

Mohamed Hassan’s license was suspended because “he was speaking of disputed issues in Islam in a manner that would cause disunity in the community.” He was also accused of slandering prominent scholars and offering his own explanations and views on social media….

The operation targets a hardline separatist group that was depriving women and children of education, healthcare and vaccination, promoting radicalisation and violent extremism, and recruiting people for foreign terrorist organisations, police said in a statement….The extremists are also suspected of theft and other criminal offences….

In early December, a 13-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by a member of the extremist group on Maduvarri was taken into state care.

The crackdown comes after the police chief revealed on Monday that there were about 1,400 extremists in the Maldives who would not hesitate to kill in the name of Islam.

According to police, 423 Maldivians attempted to join terrorist organisations in Syria and Iraq, of which 173 people managed to enter the war zones. “Hundreds” of local extremists also travelled to Pakistan and Afghanistan before the Syrian civil war, some of whom have been spreading radical ideologies since returning to the Maldives, Police Commissioner Mohamed Hameed said.

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  1. Dan says

    Dec 26, 2019 at 8:55 am

    The Maldives are the first Muslim country we entered while sailing from Australia back to America.

    The very first islands we reached at the bottom of the chain, we had to run pirates off, and instead of a nice sail up the chain, had to run a hundred miles out to keep safe, then back in to enter the capital, Male.

    The diving is fantastic but…

    Everybody, and I mean everybody, from the Customs clearing us in, to the agent who got us visas to India, right down to the dhoni water taxis, were such lying, stinking taqiyya to our faces jerks that whenever possible, we’d do business with people who’d moved there from other countries.

    The Muslims were just like politicians in that old joke. How do you know when they’re lying? Their lips are moving.

  2. Keya says

    Dec 26, 2019 at 9:33 am

    Now this vacationers paradise is polluted by this filth.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 26, 2019 at 11:58 am

      It is stupidity on steroids to promote jihad terrorism in a tropical tourist paradise!

      There goes the Maldives tourist industry. Bring a bullet-proof vest and private security if you visit the Maldives.

      • James Lincoln says

        Dec 26, 2019 at 5:04 pm

        mortimer,

        My prediction is that Western Europe will also eventually start taking MAJOR hits on tourism.

        Vacationers will start to discover the safe, nearly “Muslim-free” zones of central Europe – Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

  3. elee says

    Dec 26, 2019 at 11:32 am

    In pointing out that the scripture really really does say exactly what it in fact says, he did no more than what we do here. Id find it hard to call that a crime. So was his crime expressing approval of the message? Wouldnt that be presumptuous for a Muslim whose role is only to love for al Lah and hate for al Lah per K 81:30? well, dont go reasoning any too closely about the deathcult, that way lies madness. Oh and I guess the same doubts have to attend the prosecution of any Muslim anywhere on charges of soliciting and procuring, oh say just for example, rape, or robbery, or any number of Koranic crimes. Imagine if a pious Muslim reads this site and checks out our quotations and citations and finds them accurate, and then goes on a crime spree, have we incited him? Jurists tend to reason that if the words are spoken in a setting which allows the listener to deliberate and reason on what he chooses to do, its not criminal incitement, criminal incitement only occurs in circumstances that do not allow the listener to reason out his own decision, like the fire in a crowded theatre example……..but the difference is that a true and pious Muslim does not aspire to reasoning for himself, autonomy, to thinking for himself and acting on the basis of his reasoning; he aspires to the exact opposite. Well, then, does the fact that a Muslim might get his hands on it, render a discussion s of the scripture automatically criminal incitement? We need to know more about the psychology of Muslims, then we might learn to listen for the signals that waken their sleepers. Assuming that they think as we do is dangerous naivete as keeps getting demonstrated. And if a brutal childhood routine of Koran-memorisation, cultural isolation, and beatings leaves things implanted in Muslim minds that erupt in violence years later when the cue word gets sounded, we need to know that too. /=

  4. gravenimage says

    Dec 26, 2019 at 11:10 pm

    Maldives: Three Islamic scholars suspended for encouraging jihad terrorism
    ……………………..

    These Islamic scholars clearly know their Islam.

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