What Imran Khan says here is exactly the opposite of what is true. Muslim spokesmen all over the world not only insisted after 9/11 that Islam had nothing to do with terrorism; they also ignored the fact that it was the terrorists who again and again linked Islam to their acts of violence, and instead pretended that the link between Islam and terrorism was the handiwork of “Islamophobes.”
“Therefore, we hope to come out with a media that also gives our children and non-Muslims an understanding of what real Islam is.”
This also has been done and done and done again all over the world. There is an endless supply of smiling Muslim spokesmen who are ready to assure the public in smooth, soothing tones that what they see in the news virtually every day is all wrong, and that Islam is actually a religion of peace. Khan is going to give us more of this. Unless and until he starts convincing jihadis that their understanding of Islam is all wrong and gets them to lay down their arms, this will be just another exercise in deception.
“Imran Khan: Islamophobia grew because Muslim leaders failed to explain Islam,” by Fatimah Zainal, The Star, February 4, 2020:
PETALING JAYA: The growth of Islamophobia is because Muslim leaders failed to combat anti-Muslim sentiments in the West by explaining the truth about Islam, says Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.
In his keynote address at the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia here on Tuesday (Feb 4), he said the inability to remove Islam from the Western world’s definition of terrorism made matters worse for the more than one billion Muslims worldwide.
He singled out key events such as the Iranian Revolution, the reaction of the Muslim world towards Salman Rushdie’s controversial book, The Satanic Verses, and the 9/11 attacks as pivotal moments that saw Islamophobia growing in the West.
According to Imran, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, which resulted in the toppling of the monarchy there, saw Western countries fearing for the first time that Islam would go against their interests.
In addition, Islamophobia became worse in 1988 with the controversy over Rushdie’s book which outraged Muslims due to its blasphemous content and earned the writer a death sentence from Iran.
“I consider that the biggest failure of Muslim leadership.
“They should have explained why it mattered so much. Westerners have a completely different attitude towards religion compared to the Muslim world.
“We needed to explain to them why it (the book) caused us so much pain. As a result (of this failure to explain), Islam was seen as intolerant by the Western world,” said Imran.
He said in the wake of the 9/11 attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States on Sept 11,2001, Muslim leaders should have objected when the Western world called these attacks an act of Islamic terrorism.
“What do the terrorist acts have to do with us?
“Rather than saying Islam had nothing to do with it and delinking Islam from the attacks, the Muslim world, unfortunately, started using Western terminologies such as ‘moderate Islam and radical Islam’.
“Islamophobia grew even more because Muslim countries did not stop and question this and say that Islam and terrorism had no linkage,” he added.
He said nobody, for example, linked the Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War Two with religion nor was this the case when Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels assassinated India’s former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
“No one linked religion to them but Islam and terrorism got connected,” he said….
“There’s a need to give people an idea of what the misconceptions are as well as what the real Islam is.
“There is also extremist propaganda luring young people towards extremist ideologies.
“Therefore, we hope to come out with a media that also gives our children and non-Muslims an understanding of what real Islam is,” said Imran, who is currently in Malaysia for a working visit from Monday (Feb 3) to Tuesday (Feb 4).
Tim says
Black stone Kaba is connection of all that then. Not Quran or Imran khan. But Mosque and religion and girls and family’s and Islamic countries are built on Taqiya and at the death of real God.
mortimer says
Dear Tim, the Black Stone is a pagan totemic fetish object representing the goddess Al Uzza (Arabian Aphrodite), the goddess of the KORAYSH tribe to which Mohammed belonged. Mohammed could not very well destroy the TOTEM of his tribe.
The Koran is the vital source of the river of hatred and blood that flows from Islamic terrorism. The Koran contains the STRATEGIC DOCTRINE of JIHAD.
Tricia Stuercke says
1 only needs to READ The Koran, Sharia Law & Hadith Teachings, at least in an informed, condensed study, to know the TRUTH of Islam!
A good, thorough, unbiased account of History makes The Truth clear! Add in, for “fun”, the vile blatherings of today’s “most respected”, “most followed” Clerics around the world, & Islam’s true purpose & goal, thru TAQIYYA & THE HIJRAH, is in fact to RULE Worldwide!
Since Mohammed 1st turned to The Sword in Medina, Muslims have sought to Enslave, Convert, or KILL The Infidels!
How disturbing it is that 50% (minimum) of this country is STILL clueless!?!
I live just blocks away from a “Muslim Community Center” in South Salt Lake City… I no longer make Friday night grocery-runs, after feeling the Demonic Muslim “Death Stare” from sleezy Muslim men & Full-Burka’d women!
Creeps me out to my core!
I proudly wear a large antique Crucifix, receiving admiration for it the rare times I’m able to get out…
I know it makes me “a Mark”, but Fine: I’m heading out eventually anyway… I’d be HONORED to end my journey for My Lord!
Admiration as always, Mortimer! Take care of you!
Quazgaa says
Stay safe, Tricia.
mortimer says
Thanks, Trish. Trish, you need to feel EMPOWERED! You are defended by Jesus and the 2nd Amendment.
As a man, I always stare Muslims right in the eye as if to say, ‘WE WILL NOT SUBMIT to your 7th century LUNATIC MOHAMMED. We know what you are planning to do to us.’ I let them know I am not ‘a mark’.
As a woman you can ask Muslim women, ‘What would they do to you if you took that thing (veil) off?” Plead the Precious Blood over them, Trish.
I have said to Muslims, ‘We understand you … we have read your books.’ At other times, I have said, ‘We have observed you.’ That puzzles and troubles them, because they think the kufaar are unable to know what they are thinking.
Michael Copeland says
Copy a few of the quotations in “Islam’s Agenda: Muslims Speak” and print them on a small card. This can be given to people, or even left around for them to find.
Just a hope for alerting that 50% (or more) that are still clueless.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
Del says
Conceal carry. Hell, don’t even conceal. Open carry. Better yet, openly carry bacon.
somehistory says
Del
To eat or brandish. The choice will be made as the situation warrants.
Michael Copeland says
“an understanding of what real Islam is”…..
Let Grand Ayatollah Ahmad Al Baghdadi put everyone in the picture:
“…then we fight them, and we abduct their women, and destroy their churches —
This is Islam!… Come on! Learn what Islam is!”
to interviewer on Iraq television.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260452/iraqi-ayatollah-abducting-women-and-destroying-raymond-ibrahim
mortimer says
For Imran Khan, “REAL” ISLAM was described in the 1960s and 1970s by PAKISTANI IDEOLOGUE … Maulana Maududi …
-Human relations are so integrated that no state can have complete freedom of action under its principles unless the same principles are not in force in a neighbouring country. Therefore, a ‘Muslim Party’ will not be content with the establishment of Islam in just one area alone –both for its own safety and for general reform. It should try and expand in all directions. On one hand it will spread its ideology; on the other it will invite people of all nations to accept its creed, for salvation lies only therein. If this Islamic state has power and resources it will fight and destroy non-Islamic governments and establish Islamic states in their place.
-1964, Haqiqat-i-Jihad, page 64, Taj Company Ltd, Lahore, Pakistan 1964
-It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God’s TROOPERS.
-It must now be obvious that the objective of the Islamic jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system, and establish in its place an Islamic system of state rule. Islam does not intend to confine his rule to a single state or a hand full of countries. The aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution. Although in the initial stages, it is incumbent upon members of the party of Islam to carry out a revolution in the state system of the countries to which they belong; their ultimate objective is none other than world revolution.
-1970, Jihad in Islam’ (Jihad Fi Sabillilah), Transl. Abdul Waheed Khan, page 20, Islamic Publications Ltd, Pakistan
PAKISTANI MAULANA MAUDUDI DECLARED WAR ON THE WORLD!
gravenimage says
Imran Khan knows his Islam. He is just slinging Taqiyya here.
mortimer says
Dear GI, possibly he is informed, but he is preaching this patent nonsense to a well-informed Muslim audience. I wonder what he says in his cabinet meetings behind closed doors.
revereridesagain says
He’s a lying weasel trying to rack up points for his 72 virgins. For the Paki PM to claim he doesn’t know that Islam commands unending war against the “infidel” only indicates that he knows how much b.s. the Western leftards will swallow.
“They should have explained why it mattered so much. Westerners have a completely different attitude towards religion compared to the Muslim world. “We needed to explain to them why it (the book) caused us so much pain. As a result (of this failure to explain), Islam was seen as intolerant by the Western world,” said Imran.
This is the inherent pathological narcissism of Islam. “The book caused us so much pain!! Look What You Made Us Doooooo!! We had to murder people!! Then we had to knock down skyscrapers That’s not intolerant!! It’s hurt feelings!!”
And the ignorant do not know that “kamikaze” means “Divine Wind” so they’ll swallow the lie that no one knew that Japan’s aggression was linked to Shinto Buddhism.
Real Islam is garbage, and Imran Khan is just a dump truck driver.
elee says
Applause, and special applause for the last line of your post!
gravenimage says
Fine post, revereridesagain.
Quazgaa says
Dump truck driver?
Dude, you crack me up!?
Jaladhi says
So all those invasions that Mohammad started right after establishing Islam were not terrorist attacks on the peaceful neighbors – these peaceful overtures. Convert peacEfully or we will kill you!! Ha, ha….Thec usuala taqiyya spouted by Muslims! Islam is nothing but terror!!
Michael Copeland says
Khan should look in Pakistan’s own Brigadier S.K. Malik’s book “The Quranic Concept of War”, with a foreword by the late President Zia:
“to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies” — Brig-Gen. S. K. Malik
There. That ends all these “misconceptions”.
elee says
A text that every concerned first-worlder should read over several times.
mortimer says
A fitting and key reference to Brigadier Malik provided by Michael Copeland in the context of the UNINFORMED Pakistani PM !!
“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.”
“Terror struck into the hearts of the enemies is not only a means, it is the end itself,” Malik states, “It is the point where the means and the end meet and merge. Terror is not a means of imposing decision on the enemy; it is the decision we wish to impose on him.”
– Pakistani Brig. S.K. Malik, “Quranic Concept of War”.
Conclusion: TERRORISM IS ISLAMIC.
“Turhibunna” (terrorize them) – Koran 8.60
elee says
Taqiyyah, plain and simple. How can you tell when a Muslim is lying? Look and see if his lips are moving.
Tangata says
Could it be that Imran Khan is wrong about Islam? That Islam is a religion of terrorism and terror is the religion of Islam… The words of Muhammad in the Qur’an and the Sunday promote the use of oppression and terror to coerce the will of Islam, it’s caliphs and it’s leadership on Muslims and non-Muslims alike …
gravenimage says
Khan knows this perfectly well.
mortimer says
Khan is a conman. A conman knows that his product is not what he claims it to be.
Michael Copeland says
” ….Islam was seen as intolerant by the Western world”, said Khan.
“My religion doesn’t tolerate other religion. It does not tolerate.” – Abu Bakr, Australia
“If anyone desire a religion other than Islam never will it be accepted of him” – Koran 3:85
Spiro says
This PM needs to look around the idea that Islam is a terrorist movement comes from simple observation
Of course there are people who will gladly believe him to feed their
Delusion
Jacob says
the term ‘islamophobia’ was SPECIFICALLY created by the muslim think tank, iiit, to distract and deter opposition to their lying asses. yes, islam sleeps with terrorism period. it does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out. islam is all lies, deceipt, the poor me victim they try to portray; they just STINK literally. I’m very glad solomaniac was killed; no loss to the Universe.
Saudi needs also to shape up and stop the wahobby crap; remember the 19 muslims who were sponsored by Saudi arabia who killed thousands in NYC? Seems that isn’t brought up much and it should be. We would not be In this mess if that had not happened and if Obama wasn’t a muslim who could care less about our country. He should be impeached retroactively as he did 8 yrs of serious damage to our country. He certainly knows to do his self-aggrandizement when he and wifey are nothing more than POS.
he can be called the GREAT DIVIDER and you see what he created. the dems will never get over it.
Battle says
The moderate crocodile again.
The moderate cobra snake again.
somehistory says
He is just another stupid and lying moslim who happens to have a public platform.
And, if I’m not mistaken, the Kamikaze pilots were “linked to religion”…to worship of the Emperor of Japan. Perhaps not by everyone, but some were aware of the ties.
There is no such thing as a “phobia” of islam. If one “fears islam,” they have good reason…not “un-reasoning.” And most of the people who know what islam is all about…better even than some born to it or converts to islam…are the ones to speak out the truth and they are not in fear so much as in disgust and even hatred of the evil and filthy belief system.
I don’t “fear” islam…I loathe it, despise it, execrate and abhor it.
The fake “phobia’ of islam was invented by the oic…in order to “shame”…esp Americans…into keeping the truth bottled up and not criticizing islam or the actions of moslims…in groups, mobs or individuals.
Too many moslims have denied the connection to terrorism..and claim their actions are justified as acts of war and not terror. Even tho they know their filthy book tells them to “strike terror.”
This is just another…quite feeble attempt…to make his religion look the opposite of the evil it is.
mortimer says
PM Imran Khan believes: “The growth of Islamophobia is because Muslim leaders failed to combat anti-Muslim sentiments in the West by explaining the truth about Islam.” Not so … what actually happened was that the West became more aware of jihad.
Jihad is warfare and hatred directed by Muslims against the dirty KUFAAR ‘for the sake of Allah’.
There is NOTHING ‘PHOBIC’ in the awareness of Western people. As many as 90,000 Christians are being killed by MUSLIMS EVERY YEAR!
That works out to about 200 Christians who die as a result of MUSLIM PERSECUTION AGAINST CHRISTIANS.
Christians are now the MOST PERSECUTED PEOPLE ON EARTH. They are MOSTLY PERSECUTED BY MUSLIMS IN AFRICA and ASIA and some in Europe and the Americas.
Muslims are STABBING, SHOOTING, BOMBING, RAPING and RAMMING CHRISTIANS EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
THIS IS ATTEMPTED GENOCIDE CONDUCTED BY MUSLIM FANATICS.
mortimer says
Correction: That works out to about 200 Christians who die EVERY DAY as a result of MUSLIM PERSECUTION AGAINST CHRISTIANS.
Steve B says
It always amazes me when Muslim leaders try to explain the problematic aspects of Islam they fail completely. It’s not just a weakness in English or English translation either. Is he really trying to tell us that if they had thoroughly explained the offence of the satanic verses that we would agree with a death sentence issued against an author? It shows a huge lack of understanding of the West and its root principles.
mortimer says
PM Imran Khan asked: “What do the terrorist acts have to do with us?”
Answer: The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 2:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 3:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 4:71-72, 74-077, 84, 89-91, 94-95,100-104; 5:33, 35, 82; 8:1, 5, 7, 9-10, 12, 15-17, 39-48, 57-60, 65-75; 9:5, 12-14, 16, 19-20, 24-26, 29, 36, 38-39, 41, 44, 52, 73, 81, 83, 86, 88, 92, 111, 120, 122-123; 16:110; 22:39, 58, 78; 24:53, 55; 25:52; 29:6, 69; 33:15, 18, 20, 23, 25-27, 50; 42:39; 47:4, 20, 35; 48:15-24; 49:15; 59:2, 5-8, 14; 60:9; 61:4, 11, 13; 63:4; 64:14; 66:9; 73:20; 76:8.
Jayell says
‘Islamophobia’ doesn’t exist. If Khan really thinks that the informed dislike of islam on the part of many in the West is an ‘irrational fear’, then that can only be a comment on his critical and intellectual faculties.
Tesdorf Design says
Imran Khan used to be a half-way decent cricketer, but now he is just another fatr political Taqiyyadist.
Jayell says
Reverting to type?
mortimer says
LEADING MUSLIMS CLERICS SAY … TERRORISM CANNOT BE CONDEMNED
-Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, also makes not of the religious roots of Islamist terrorism: “If we follow the science of Koranic interpretation, WE CANNOT CONDEMN TERRORISM in religious terms. It remains completely true to the classical rules in its evolution of sanctity for its own justification. This is where the secret of its theological strength lies.”
-Taliban terrorist Baitullah Mehsud wrote : “Allah on 480 occasions in the Holy Koran extols Muslims to wage jihad. We only fulfil God’s orders. Only jihad can bring peace to the world.”
-“whoever refuses the principle of terror[ism] against the enemy also refuses the commandment of Allah the Exalted, the Most High, and His Shari’a.” Osama bin Laden, 2002
http://politicallyshort.com/2015/11/28/islam-jihad-and-our-ignorance/
-“To instill terror into the hearts of the enemy is essential in the ultimate analysis to dislocate his faith.”
Brigadier General S.K. Malik’s The Quranic Concept of War
-“the Quran directly commands us to commit terrorism, so why are we afraid of it?”
Ragab Hilal Hamida member of Egyptian Parliament, 2006
-Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand.” Sahih Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220
gravenimage says
+1
Michael Pillon says
Islamophobia grew because we didn’t transform Mecca into irradiated glass about 50 years ago. No matter. There’s still time.
gravenimage says
This would not end Islam, Michael. The Ka’aba has been damaged and even destroyed before.
mortimer says
Pillon, I agree with GI. We have demolish the CREDIBILITY of the Koran … it is a MANMADE book. Once Muslims understand that, they leave Islam instantly.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Mortimer, this is a pretty rare occurrence.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“The growth of Islamophobia is because Muslim leaders failed to combat anti-Muslim sentiments in the West by explaining the truth about Islam, says Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.”
This is completely nonsensical.
If muslim leaders actually “told the truth” about islam – which they will never do – REAL evidence-based fear of Islam would skyrocket…
Norger says
Indeed.
And perhaps the Prime Minister would like to explain why OBL and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were hidden away in Pakistan for years, the numerous Pakistani child rape gangs in the UK, the thousands of terrorist attacks committed all over the world by individuals who self-identify as devout Muslims in the years after 9/11 etc. etc. oh and Asia Bibi
Wellington says
Excellent and oh so accurate a post, James. Yes indeed, if (big “if”) the truth is told about Islam, then HUGE numbers of mankind would want nothing to do with this wretched excuse for a religion.
Islam relies on deception in sundry ways. Arguably the most important deception of all for Islam is not revealing up-front what it intends for all of mankind, for all of us.
James Lincoln says
Thank you for your kind reply, Wellington.
tim gallagher says
There’s only two possibilities when it comes to the crap that Imran Khan and the other Muslim propagandists constantly come out with. Either they are the greatest bullshit artists you could find anywhere in the world (which I believe is the truth) or they are completely insane and actually believe the rubbish they spew out of their mouths is true. You would certainly have to be seriously demented to believe such rubbish is true. Hopefully, very few people will believe any of the garbage they come out with. I agree with elee’s comment up above. Whenever their lips are moving people like Khan are lying to us infidels.
gravenimage says
Pakistan PM: “Islamophobia grew because Muslim countries did not say that Islam and terrorism had no linkage”
……………………….
What could be more grimly laughable? This is all Muslims and dhimmi apologists have been doing over the past twenty years.
Whatever the whitewash, some Infidels have still noticed how savage Islam is–hence the “Islasmophobia”.
Wellington says
+1
sidney penny says
“He said nobody, for example, linked the Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War Two with religion nor was this the case when Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels assassinated India’s former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.”
They did not claim to do it on behalf of any religion.
sidney penny says
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan should be asked just one question.
Why and how was Pakistan created?
Nothing to do with Islam I guess will be his false answer.
Young Indians seemed to have forgotten their recent history.
sidney penny says
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/02/inside-pakistan-assembly-islamic-political-party-urges-prime-minister-to-declare-jihad-against-india
I bet nobody in the audience asked him about this.
Nothing to do with Islam?
n says
Imran Khan says: “ISLAM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM.”
Goofy says
That should answer the question once and for all! Would he ever lie to us? After all he is a politician and an honourable Muslim! No other religion can boast of so much honour! Just consider all the honour killings in his own country addressed in a separate article on this blog. I am sure that he never read in the Koran that he should lie to defend his faith which is a faith of aggression, extorsion, humiliation and murder. His problem is that the world is waking up to realise the true nature of Islam.
John McKenna says
Speak to any Pakistani Christian and you will see a people marginalised, sometimes brutalised and living in constant fear of violence commited against them, including loss of life. Now contrast that with the experience of the Moslem population in Europe and America where they are at liberty to propagate their faith, have total freedom of expression and assembly and are encouraged (as equals) to participate in all aspects of communal life including political and civic life. Mr Khan knows this and is being disingenuous.. He is right about one thing. In Post Christian, Marxist Britain and Europe religion is seen as an anachronism, to be ridiculed and mocked. Ironically though not Islam, which is lauded, due to political correctness and the shared hatred of Christianity by the ruling Marxist elite that run all its institutions and dominate popular culture within the European sphere and increasingly so in the States.
Battle says
A crocodile of peace.
A cobra snake of peace.
Battle says
A moderate crocodile.
A moderate cobra snake.
mortimer says
PM Imran Khan is a conman. He doesn’t want Westerners realize that he is promoting barbarism.
Michael Copeland says
Memo to Imran Khan…..
Look at “Islam’s Agenda: Muslims Speak”.
That will put you wise.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/?unapproved=544481&moderation-hash=4a6f2684d4d03641b8799265274e0fce#comment-544481
Kavan Sherwood (@TattoedMan77) says
I think one of the first examples of Islamophobia was when Mohammed attack Khandaq and beheaded the male population(those with pubic hair) and enslaving the women and children?
Ibn Ishaq describes the killing of the Banu Qurayza men as follows:
“ Then they surrendered, and the Apostle confined them in Medina in the quarter of d. al-Harith, a woman of B. al-Najjar. Then the Apostle went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for them and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches. Among them was the enemy of Allah Huyayy b. Akhtab and Ka`b b. Asad their chief. There were 600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900. As they were being taken out in batches to the Apostle they asked Ka`b what he thought would be done with them. He replied, ‘Will you never understand? Don’t you see that the summoner never stops and those who are taken away do not return? By Allah it is death!’ This went on until the Apostle made an end of them. Huyayy was brought out wearing a flowered robe in which he had made holes about the size of the finger-tips in every part so that it should not be taken from him as spoil, with his hands bound to his neck by a rope. When he saw the Apostle he said, ‘By God, I do not blame myself for opposing you, but he who forsakes God will be forsaken.’ Then he went to the men and said, ‘God’s command is right. A book and a decree, and massacre have been written against the Sons of Israel.’ Then he sat down and his head was struck off
Goofy says
Which version of the Koran does Mr Imran Khan read if any?