He doesn’t just mean Islam as a religion, but as a political system that denies basic rights to unbelievers. As such, his words here should be a matter of concern to law enforcement authorities. There are still laws against sedition and subversion. But to investigate Elturk for such things that would be “Islamophobic.”
“Michigan-Based Imam Mustapha Elturk, Who Endorsed Bernie Sanders: Islam Is Far Superior To Man-Made Systems Of Government; I Immigrated To U.S. Because Here, People Can Freely Spread Islamic Ideology,” MEMRI, March 13, 2020:
Michigan-based Islamic scholar Imam Ameer Mustapha Elturk, who immigrated to the United States from Lebanon in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war, said in a lecture that was uploaded to YouTube on October 12, 2019 that Allah revealed Islam to the Prophet Muhammad so that it could be made to prevail over all man-made non-Islamic systems of law and government, including liberal democracy, Communism, socialism, and the laws of “We, the People” that are currently in countries such as the United States. He said that Muslims must not abide by any law that contradicts shari’a law, that they must struggle in order to restore the glory of Islam and the Muslims, and that he chose to immigrate to the United States instead of Communist Romania because he had no desire to be a Communist and because the liberty and freedom of speech in the United States enable people to freely preach Islam and propagate Islamic ideology. Imam Elturk said that the Jihad of the Quran and of the heart is the biggest Jihad Muslims can do and that in pursuit of justice, he sometimes has to “deal with” non-Muslims, LGBTQ people, and atheists. The lecture was delivered at the Evergreen Islamic Center in San Jose, California. Imam Elturk is the Imam of the Islamic Organization of North America (IONA) Masjid in Warren, Michigan and on March 8, 2020, U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) retweeted a video of Imam Elturk endorsing Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for President. The video was uploaded to a Youtube channel run by Hafiz Khan, who is a scholar based in Santa Clara, CA.
To view the clip of Imam Ameer Mustapha Elturk on MEMRI TV, click here or below.
“There Can Be Only Two Ways People Can Follow: Either The Law Of The King… Or The Law Of Allah”
Imam Ameer Mustapha Elturk: “Sending Muhammad was not only to establish justice in one small area of the globe, in Arabia. It was to make this system, Islam, prevail over the entire globe.
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“There can be only two ways people can follow: Either the law of the king…
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“Or the law of Allah. We have these two ways. Either… Now, we don’t have kingship anymore. We have the law of the people. It is now, ‘We, the People’, right? We live in America, right? ‘We, the People!’ It is not the way of the people, as opposed to the way of Allah, Islam. When Allah said [in the Quran:] ‘He may make it prevail over all other religions’… To make it prevail over the whole religion is to make it prevail over the entirety of man-made systems and ways of life – all put together… Whether it is liberal democracy, whether it is Communism, whether it is socialism, whatever way of life was invented by Man – Allah’s way should prevail over that. Allah’s way should prevail over that.”
[…]
“Anything That Contravenes The Shari’a – We Will Not Listen, We Will Not Obey”
“Here we are today, in a condition of total misery and humiliation, would you not agree? Where is the glory of Islam? Where is the glory of the believers today? So we need to struggle to bring back the glory of Allah, the glory of Islam.
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“Anything that contravenes the shari’a – we will not listen, we will not obey.”
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“We Have An Opportunity Here Because Of The Freedom Of Speech In This Country, To Propagate Our Religion Freely”
“Now, in some countries, you cannot… Yeah, you may be able to worship in mosques, but you cannot preach justice or criticize the president – in some parts of the world, whether it is in Syria, Egypt, or maybe other places in the world – so you look for a place where you can at least practice your religion and have the freedom to preach, propagate, and spread the ideology of our faith. That is why we are here.
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“I had a choice to either go to Romania, and become a Communist – because I had a scholarship – or come to America and have to struggle on my own to make it and study. I chose to come to America simply because I am not inclined, nor have I any desire, to become a Communist.
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“We have an opportunity here to practice our religion. Nobody tells us what to do. You can pray 50 times a day, nobody tells you what to do. We have an opportunity here because of the freedom of speech in this country, to propagate our religion freely, without the threat or intimidation of anyone.”
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“Islam Is A Complete Political, Social, And Economic System… We Are Way Superior To Them”
“That is the biggest Jihad we can do – Jihad of the Quran, Jihad of the heart. Faith is an ideology. It manifests itself in Islam. Islam is a complete political, social, and economic system.
“They boast that their economic system is better than the Islamic economic system. They boast that their social structures are better than our social structure. No! We are way superior to them.
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“I am part of that [social justice] movement of non-Muslims and sometimes I have to deal with LGBTQ people, atheists, and the like – but justice is justice.”
Wellington says
Bernie the Fool is at least honest about what he intends for America. This Muslim cleric, also a fool, is, as well, honest about his intentions.
Honesty is so refreshing, especially when coming from those who admit up front that they will use freedom to destroy freedom. Sadly, by the year this ever increasingly applies to the Democratic Party of the USA (e.g., want to entrust your freedom to powerful Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer—well then, good luck with that).
So, all those who cherish freedom, please be aware, be cognizant, of how enemies of liberty will use liberty to destroy liberty. Like Bernie and this Islamic turkey. Nancy and Chuckie too. Sadly, it’s become a very, very long list. Didn’t need to but it has.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Wellington – the honesty is refreshing.
Mustapha Elturk and Bernie Sanders: a perfect example of a “the left” in synergy with islam.
Plain as day for all to see – if one cares to look…
gravenimage says
I doubt this Mohammedan was honest enough to reveal to “Bernie” what he has in store for us.
andrew mckendrick says
There is none so blind as those that will not see.
PRCS says
Far too many refused to believe what a very honest Anjem Choudary said–loudly and publicly–about Islam and its ultimate goal, referring to him and others as ‘hate preachers’ and those who opposed him as ‘Islamophobes’.
Peacelover says
Can’t get much plainer than this and just shows they don’t belong in this country. In other words,we cannot co-exist,particularly in the long-run.
Roger Woodhouse says
In order to defend against the onslaught of Islam we have to ‘rebuild’our defences.Our youth are almost devoid of any kind of ‘spirituality’ via the teachings of our Christian belief in school or at home in many cases.Without this kind of ammunition we are vulnerable to a ‘takeover’.Our governments cannot be relied upon.They themselves are weak and defenceless.The COE is culpable in its refutation of this wicked creed imposing itself on us.I fear that civil war will eventually engulf us due entirely to lack of strong leadership.
abad says
Islam has no place in the United States.
Shut down every single mosque and Islamic center, deport every single Moslem to Syria.
Problem solved.
Peacelover says
totally agree and if not Syria,someplace else
Paul J says
The Pacific, Indian and Atlantic come to mind. Oceans that is, plenty of room for all of them.
Rufolino says
No one will ever permit you to do that. It would be “racist”. (Now the most pejorative adjective in the dictionary.)
They would fling at you the Nazi plan to deport all Jews to Madagascar to die.
Any attempt on these lines will immediately and always be compared by the Left to Nazi persecution and deportations.
CogitoErgoSum says
This imam came to America not because he believes in freedom of religion or freedom of speech or because he believes that all should be treated equally under the law. No, he came here because he wants to destroy such freedoms and ideals. He is not going to have any luck in finding what he wants here in the USA. He needs to move on to someplace else. I suggest he go to Hell — and he can take Bernie with him.
Trick_or_Treat says
Yes, after having openly declared those things (as reported above), this person should be under arrest and charges of incitement. If he isn’t, people have to demand a reason as to why not from their police commissioner, and local member, etc.
Michael Copeland says
“if we’re practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land.”
Mustafa Carroll, CAIR Texas
FYI says
This demonic ‘holy’ man el-turk is clearly infected by his Koranovirus:the sickness of islam with its perverted religion,child-raping pederast “prophet” and its disgustingly immoral ‘holy’ book the koran.
These muslims clearly do not want to be citizens{and never will be}and the Lefties and Democrats have treasonously permitted this National desecration to take place endangering the lives of Americans by their pandering to islam and facilitating islamic immigration.
Their creed is antisocial k5;51,antisemitic and antiChrist k9:30,antifreedom,antidemocratic,inhumane and perverse{halal cruelty to animals,sharia filth etc} which is some achievement for a murderously evil Arab cult pretending to be a religion of “peace”
They should be deported.They should not be citizens.Their creed is evil and so are its demonic ‘holy’ men.
Crusades Were Right says
Something about a snake, Mr Trump?
maemae77 says
Exactly. I notice how he triggers Muslims on social a live-streams of his rallies but if the Muslims call him a Islamaphobe, they will be exposing themselves as the snakes, so they deflect instead, I’m hoping more Americans are opening their eyes and seeing where he is pointing his finger. Trump is brilliant, but more Americans need to open up their eyes and really listen and think about what his words mean and notice who attacks him in the live-streams.
His crowds cheer, giving me hope that they get it. The larger his crowd grows the more informed people become of who the really snakes are.
LoveWest says
I think America is a civilised nation but it is not yet civilised on the evil of an ideology.
Dennis Malone says
Islam is a political ideology masking itself as a religion.
eduardo odraude says
It’s a religious political ideology. Jihadists don’t commit suicide for the sake of something earthly. They think they are slaying and being slain in order to gain paradise. (Admittedly, their “paradise” is very earthly in conception, reminiscent of a bacchanalian orgy, with endless virgins to deflower and rivers flowing with wine.)
maemae77 says
Sound like something the devil himself would promise his followers. Something that couldn’t possibly be true because one a person is dead, they will no longer have a living body to screw the virgins with.
FYI says
Given that allah cannot even get his OWN anatomy right{..with his one shin and his TWO RIGHT HANDS…}how do the lusty jihadist muslims know that allah will reassemble them back with the body parts in the right place?
Or what if allah forgets to put the necessary body part back?
The Houris{…or the Raisins,it depends on the translation..} in allah’s “paradise” {which sounds like an Arab bordello}might be too disturbed and disgusted at the sight of the reassembled jihadist.
eduardo odraude says
And denies basic rights to believers as well, though not as egregiously as rights are denied to unbelievers. And believers, further more, are not particularly concerned about what their system denies them. They hardly consider it a denial of anything worth having.
gravenimage says
Michigan Muslim cleric who endorsed Bernie says Islam must “prevail” over “liberal democracy”
…………………………..
Does Bernie know this? If he knew, would he care?
FYI says
“the glory of allah,the glory of islam”?
Where?
1,400 years of the “glory of islam”:pillaging,murdering,raping,invading countries?
on behalf of allah:the ARAB god of the muslims.The god who missed the Golden Rule,admits to being a champion deceiver k3:54,gives permission for his muslims to violate every one of the Exodus 20 decalogue commandments in his “perfect” koran a book so full of incongruities that by allah’s own admission koran 4;82,in its imperfections,it cannot come from God but from “other than allah”.
On behalf of the “prophet” muhammed{PBUH,actual Prophecy Be Unknown to Him*}
……..who even admitted to being a FALSE prophet{al tabari 6:111}
If el turk hates the west so much, perhaps he should be rendered and deported to..North Korea.He might appreciate the concept of “freedom of speech” better.el turk is like a priest of baal{or hubaal the god of the kabba,al lah’s precursor god}:nothing but lies and false piety,empty “prayers” to his false Arab God al Lah.
*Where does authentic Prophecy come from?
Any TRUE prophet would know this and have access to it:the Holy Spirit.
The source of Prophecy comes from the Holy Spirit{2 Peter 1 v 20-21}.This is revealed in the BIBLE, a book allah confirms as TRUE{koran 3:3} but in the koran allah it seems doesn’t know about this ,either through ignorance or as I believe,malice,since he admits to being a champion deceiver god{as in koran 5:116 we see he insists MARY is in the Trinity,an EPIC Theology fail committed by allah:notice how the HS,the source of authentic scripture and prophecy is MISSING in islam}
So muhammed would NOT have any concept of the HS{or access to it} any more than allah which means he would NOT have had the Gift of prophecy as ALL TRUE Biblical prophets{OT and NT} had.Of course muslims don’t see this but surely Christian apologists will:without the HS a man claiming to be a prophet is not a true prophet but more like a priest of baal.Or the “prophet” muhammed.
eduardo odraude says
Sorry Mustapha Elturk, but God-given freedom is going to prevail over your false prophet and his sock puppet Allah.
tgusa says
Whatever so called liberals/democrats build that goes horribly wrong they always blame someone else which guarantees that the horribly wrong goes on and on.
I’m waiting to see which dem candidate will be the first to come out with a declaration that the best way to fight the latest virus is more open borders globalism. The perpetually horribly wrong doubling down with more horribly wrong.
Jack Holan says
What Bernies Champion proposes is not only unConstitutional a threat to all other Religions and a threat to the Freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Right as inalienable RIGHTS but a danger to any one, thought, action that contravenes Islam. We know from the OIC countries and common people who live there they mete out the harshest punishments usually lethal for for the smallest transgressions. They are Autocratic or Theocratic Countries. The commonality with Bernies Communist Russia Cuba and Red China.
Ray Jarman says
I would love to ask this fool why did the nations of Allah under the Ottoman Caliphate remain in poverty and sheikdoms like the Saudis, Kuwait and others remain a bunch of camel herders until after WWII when oil transformed the Kingdom as well as the UAE. They were still in the 8th or 9th century way of living. I wonder if Elturk would like to return to living in mud huts and tending camels and sheep in order to survive?
del says
Elturk is a protege of Israr Ahmad, the founder of Tanzeem-e-Islam, an offshoot of Jamaat-e-Islami, a large “Islamist” party in Pakistan,so IONA is a Sunni organization with roots in Pakistan. As such it is not part of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US, which is Arab dominated. But its goals are little different.
Sam says
By default Islamic followers are in the mode war with Kafirs (non Muslims). Proof- Just read Quran and Sharia. We should fight against this evil ideology. The war is inevitable.. plz admit it..
mortimer says
Western police and security services are watching them.
Western countries are not fighting the ideology. We have to use facts and logic to deprogram Muslims. Muslims have to see the flaws in Islam before they leave it.
mortimer says
Imam Ameer Mustapha Elturk contradicts the naive narrative of the Leftists, namely, that Islam is a benign religion with no political agenda.
Imam Ameer Mustapha Elturk just denounced the premise and contents of the US constitution. He is at war with the United States and its political system.
Elturk identifies Islam as ‘superior to man-made laws’, thus declaring Islam to be a LEGAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEM in competition with American laws. Did the Leftards notice this?
I doubt they will pay attention until Imam Elturk leads another 9-11, and then they will believe he is ‘hi-jacking’ Islam.
ROBERT GILMAN says
Biden and Sanders are both pushovers for jihadists.
PRCS says
The stupidity of ‘believing’ U.S. citizens, both native born and Naturalized, will be deported merely for their ‘belief’–disgusting as Nazism, Communism, Fascism, Islam and others are–cannot be overstated.
gravenimage says
True, PRCS. There has been movement toward stripping naturalized Jihadists of their citizenship, though.
“Trump administration launches new unit to strip US citizenship from foreign-born terrorists”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/02/trump-administration-launches-new-unit-to-strip-us-citizenship-from-foreign-born-terrorists
OLD GUY says
Islam will enslave all non-believers or murder them, in the case of women and young children they will be sex slaves prior to their death. The islamic ideology is worse than Nazism!
infidel says
See how this mad creature says that he chose America and not Rumania… because he is here to MISUSE the OPEN FREEDOM for Islam. And to see how the Commies support these creatures…
Mike Stevens says
What is laughable about all this hot air and jumping up and down is that Islam will not be prevailing ANYWHERE, ANY TIME, since Muslims hate each other as much as they hate non-believers, and have spent the last 1400 years hating, fighting and killing each other. They are way too busy directing their time and resources towards wiping out each other to make any attempt to make Islam “prevail”.
A perfect example is his own REAL country, Lebanon, which he fled in 1976 during its civil war – more than 50 years later, little has changed, it’s still a violent, backward, fractured country as almost all countries with a Muslim majority are. So naturally he will have no intention of ever returning there.
The problem with the US and all Western countries is that they ever allowed words like “Michigan-Based Imam Mustapha Elturk” to be in the same sentence.
Walter Sieruk says
That this Marxist politician ,BernieSanders , has been endorsed by the Muslim cleric who live in Michigan is yet futher proof of the reality of the new movement of evil and madness in this century that is called the “Red/Green Alliance.”
Therefore to this it,may be fitting to note that the Bible informs its reader in Proverbs 11:21
“Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished.” [N.K.J.V.]
tgusa says
Examining Bernie Biden and the lefts platform it has much in common with the unabombers manifesto. I have been researching the unabomber and his mission to tear the whole stinking thing down (modern civilization) no matter the cost or consequences.
Interestingly, even back then the unabomber believed that he could harness islamists in his quest for destruction.
gravenimage says
You are right–Ted Kaczynski talked about teaming up with Muslim terrorists.
tgusa says
Yes, and if you listen to interviews he refers to “we” all the time when speaking about his quest. Many think he was a lone bomber but it is obvious he had/has many friends out there.
tim gallagher says
The main point this Muslim maggot is making is how soft our western countries are. Our countries always seem to say (virtue signalling I guess), oh, yes, of course, everyone is free to practice their religion, etc, which is fine except when it is Islam, this vile enemy of every aspect of our civilised way of life. This creep says that, in Muslim countries, he and his fellow hardline Muslim crowd are prevented from trying to push their agenda of trying to take over and impose Islam, but, in the USA and other western countries, scum like him are left perfectly free to try and undermine our pleasant, non-Muslim way of life. At least, this Muslim maggot is being honest. He should be kicked back to some Muslim shithole immediately, which is where he belongs. Islam is totally incompatible in every way with our western values. How about his saying Islam is superior to man-made political systems. Islam is, without doubt, the most barbaric, inferior way of living in this world.
infidel says
A CLASSIC CASE of HOW ISLAM USES THE LEFT and then speaks against them at their backs. I hope all those Communists and Left Libs are watching this video… But they will never do it..