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Muslim cleric: “I will be holding a special prayer on Friday that will curb the pandemic”

Apr 13, 2020 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

If the coronavirus pandemic abates, Al Sadr can claim credit. If it doesn’t, he can blame his followers’ impiety, and urge them to redouble their efforts to please Allah. As Muhammad said that there is no deed greater than jihad, this could lead to more jihad violence.

“Coronavirus: Iraqi cleric tells followers to kneel and cry to curb the pandemic,” by Mina Aldroubi, The National, April 8, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Iraqi populist cleric Moqtada Al Sadr said on Wednesday that his supporters must kneel and cry during “special prayers” on Friday to beg for God’s help in battling the coronavirus crisis.

The country, which has a poor healthcare system, on Wednesday recorded a total of 1,202 confirmed cases and 69 deaths.

Most are linked to neighbouring Iran, where the outbreak has killed nearly 4,000 people and infected more than 64,000.

“I will be holding a special prayer on Friday that will curb the pandemic,” Mr Al Sadr said on Twitter.

He advised his followers to cry and prostrate on the ground for half an hour while asking God to annihilate the virus.

“This must be done after Friday prayers but before the afternoon prayers,” Mr Al Sadr said.

The cleric, who is an influential figure in Iraq’s political and social spheres, said the pandemic would not stop unless governments revoked laws legalising same-sex marriage….

Mr Al Sadr urged his supporters to follow government guidelines, reversing earlier statements that encouraged his Shiite followers to gather to mark religious occasions.

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  1. Buraq says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 12:09 pm

    Doesn’t he understand that Allah has a deaf ear and a good ear: the deaf ear is for Shia prayers and supplications and the good ear is for Sunni blah-blah-blah? Clown!

    • mortimer says

      Apr 13, 2020 at 2:02 pm

      Allah is only concerned with deceiving … didn’t he know? Surely, he must know that Allah is punishing Muslims because they didn’t rally behind ISIS !!! (sarc/off)

      TAQIYYA COMES FROM ALLAH = ‘By Allah! I would not rest assured and feel safe from the deception of Allah (la amanu limakr Allah), even if I had one foot in paradise.’” (Khalid Muhammad Khalid, Successors of the Messenger, translated by Muhammad Mahdi al-Sharif [Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah, Beirut Lebanon, 2005], Book One: Abu Bakr Has Come, p. 99)

      Not even Muslims are safe from Allah’s TAQIYYA.

      • James Lincoln says

        Apr 13, 2020 at 3:01 pm

        mortimer says

        “Not even Muslims are safe from Allah’s TAQIYYA.”

        Brilliant, I never gave a thought…

        • mortimer says

          Apr 13, 2020 at 7:48 pm

          N.B. Abu Bakr was Mohammed’s closest companion living with him for 23 years. He knew the doctrine of Mohammed ‘perfectly’.

      • J D S says

        Apr 14, 2020 at 10:07 am

        Islam’s allah=Satan. God does not hear prayer from satan worshipers unless they are payers of repentance.

    • Westman says

      Apr 14, 2020 at 12:57 am

      Like most clerics, Moqtada Al Sadr lives in a bubble of ignorance, in his case, sustained by running off to study religion while the Iraq war was raging. Even when the most ardent die from the virus he’ll never wonder why worshipping Allah makes no more difference than worshipping a stone.

  2. Templer says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 12:13 pm

    There god does not exist no help will come he will problem say when the peace comes its bean sent by there god it as not off corsuse more islam BS islam is false the Koran is off satin mo is a pedophile that’s the truth

  3. elee says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    Fools’ names and fools’ faces…….I’m getting tired of this idiot. Maybe we should invite him to hold a big public Muslim ceremony in New York City.

  4. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 12:58 pm

    “He advised his followers to cry and prostrate on the ground for half an hour while asking God to annihilate the virus.”
    —
    Very good, especially considering what those idiot infidel experts say, e.g., when the virus becomes suspended in aerosol droplets, it can stay suspended for about a half-hour, before drifting down and settling on surfaces where it can linger for hours, and by Allah, Al-Sadr’s congregation will rise from the floor where they’ve been prostrating for half an hour, none the worse for having done so. Not only that, those who had the coronavirus will be cured [1], thereby demonstrating once again the superiority of Islamic medicine over infidel quackery. Alhamdullillah!

    more…
    “This must be done after Friday prayers but before the afternoon prayers,”
    —
    Normally this would work, except that Al-Sadr forgot to add the need to simultaneously boil:

    Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
    Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
    Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
    Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing

    Anyone in 17th-century England could’ve told him that.

    more…
    [1] “I will be holding a special prayer on Friday that will curb the pandemic, [provided infidel governments help me out a bit here, because, as I’ve previously made clear,] …the pandemic would not stop unless governments revoked laws legalising same-sex marriage.”

    • somehistory says

      Apr 13, 2020 at 2:09 pm

      “This must be done after Friday prayers but before the afternoon prayers,”

      By :”Friday prayers,” does he mean in the early morning, before dawn?

      • Anjuli Pandavar says

        Apr 13, 2020 at 4:13 pm

        You’re correct, Friday has five compulsory prayers, just like any other day. “Friday prayers” is shorthand for the Friday congregational (jumu’ah) prayer at midday.

        • somehistory says

          Apr 13, 2020 at 4:38 pm

          Thank you.

        • Anjuli Pandavar says

          Apr 13, 2020 at 5:02 pm

          You’re welcome.

  5. somehistory says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 2:06 pm

    If his fake ‘god,’ a.k.a. satan the devil, sent the virus to kill infidels, and if it doesn’t affect moslims, and if they no longer wish to spread it among infidels in order to kill and thereby teach infidels lessons in whom they should put their faith and worship, why then the need for a “special” prayer? Why “pray” at all?
    moslims don’t know how to pray anyway…they prey on other humans, and talk to satan the devil about what they plan to do…if he wants them to do it. This is not “prayer.”

    The evil in these creepy moslims sure does make them physically ugly. And mentally deficient in reasoning ability, and immoral in that they seek, lust for, the death of others, while raping, lying, extorting, and thieving their way through life.

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 13, 2020 at 3:04 pm

      somehistory,

      Interesting and accurate wordplay.

      Muslims don’t pray – they prey…

      • somehistory says

        Apr 13, 2020 at 4:39 pm

        Thank you.

  6. gravenimage says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 5:07 pm

    Muslim cleric: “I will be holding a special prayer on Friday that will curb the pandemic”
    …………………………

    It *will* curb it? Isn’t that up to the vicious god “Allah”? Isn’t this heresy?

    More:

    If the coronavirus pandemic abates, Al Sadr can claim credit. If it doesn’t, he can blame his followers’ impiety, and urge them to redouble their efforts to please Allah. As Muhammad said that there is no deed greater than jihad, this could lead to more jihad violence.
    …………………………

    Yep–there’s nothin’ that Jihad violence can’t cure…sarc/off

    • J D S says

      Apr 14, 2020 at 10:20 am

      If his prayers ate not answered h will simply say that he wasn’t pious enough handbook have to work harder and try again.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 15, 2020 at 12:00 am

        He will probably say that his followers were not pious enough. Muslims always someone else–even each other.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 15, 2020 at 11:46 pm

          always blame someone else

  7. tim gallagher says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    These characters certainly do make outrageous claims. So his “special” prayer meeting will curb the pandemic. Yeah, so according to this buffoon, there’s really no need for the hard slog by research scientists working away in all those labs around the world. That hard work is not needed. I wonder if there are many Muslims who know that it is, in fact, scientific hard work that will provide the effective answers and that this idiot is talking complete rubbish about his special prayer meeting providing the answer. Surely, many Muslims would even think this man is a clown, who is making ludicrous claims. There’s that saying about how God helps those who help themselves and I think most people know that man has to do the hard work of research that will come up with answers and solutions to this current problem and not just pray, even at a “special” prayer meeting, for a miraculous cure. This man should probably be praying that the laboratory researchers will be given some insight into how to develop a vaccine that will be effective against this virus.

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Apr 14, 2020 at 10:41 am

      tg, if Allah wills the scientists to succeed and the cleric fail, the scientists will succeed and the cleric will fail. If Allah wills the cleric to succeed and the scientists fail, the cleric will succeed and the scientists fail. The scientists are infidels and the cleric a Muslim. In whose favour would the odds be stacked? If I were a Muslim, this would be a no brainer.

      • tim gallagher says

        Apr 14, 2020 at 6:00 pm

        Thanks for the comment, Anjuli. Of course, what you say is true when it comes to a huge number of Muslims. It’s that fatalism (it’s Allah’s will, blah blah) that was mentioned a while ago in one of the reports here at Jihad Watch. It was a report that mentioned some Muslim woman looking at bloodshed and slaughter and saying, oh, it’s all fine, it’s all Allah’s will. It is a bizarre outlook and it certainly would not encourage to people to attempt to achieve goals, be creative and work hard, but would encourage them to sit around on their arses and do nothing but watch Allah’s will come to pass.

        • Anjuli Pandavar says

          Apr 22, 2020 at 10:33 am

          That’s right, tg. Thankfully, it seems that the days of not criticising Muslims are finally behind us. There is much about Muslims that most non-Muslims are simply ignorant of, making assumptions about Muslims that would generally apply to anyone, but do not apply to Muslims. The Muslim mind is a mediaeval construct, not a modern one. Muslims get worked up about stuff that people in the Middle Ages used to lose sleep over.

  8. Undaunted says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    Wow, the breath-taking arrogance of that clown. Some people are just beggin’ for a bullet.

  9. James Lincoln says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    Let’s see, approximately 40 million people in Iraq and the best “religious cleric leader” that they could come up with is Iraqi “populist” Moqtada Al Sadr?

  10. roberta says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    I hope we get video of this Friday matinee. Most of us could use a good laugh these days.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Apr 14, 2020 at 9:10 am

      It’s too bad that a major symptom of COVID-19 is neither diarrhea or extreme flatulence. Then I would really go for a view of this special 30-minute prayer session.

    • Jaydam says

      Apr 14, 2020 at 6:59 pm

      I have a good laugh every day, when i read the absurd claims by these Muslim loony tunes on JH.
      They never fail to provide my daily dose of comedy 🙂

  11. Battle says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 11:27 pm

    Al Sadr is copying the Christian pastors who are preaching repentance.

  12. Battle says

    Apr 13, 2020 at 11:33 pm

    Al Sadr is copying the Christian pastors preaching repentance.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 13, 2020 at 11:38 pm

      True, Battle–except that these Muslims are not actually repenting of anything.

  13. AnnChristine says

    Apr 14, 2020 at 6:10 am

    Will he bring his Magic Cane and Top Hat with a rabbit in it?——–Islamists believe all they are told by the Cleric——The Moslem Brain has been scrambled since birth and obey all things ISLAMIC !!

  14. OLD GUY says

    Apr 14, 2020 at 12:25 pm

    YEA, YEA, YEA, and elephants can fly.
    These so called leader/criminals always have an out, nothing is ever their fault. If Allah does not stop C-19 then it will be his followers fault, because they did something wrong. Maybe Sadr got the prayer wrong or maybe Allah wasn’t listening to him, or maybe Allah wants to punish the islamic people for following these religious leaders who condone and promote the KILLING and BRUTALITY towards his creation of mankind.

  15. RichardCdeL says

    Apr 15, 2020 at 2:55 am

    What an evil looking bastards. But what can you expect from a people who think it is ok to have sex with little boys ie if they haven’t yet grown hair under their arms.

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