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Muslim “reformer” at Clarion’s Preventing Violent Extremism program outraged at violent rioters being called “evil”

May 31, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Lost 600 followers the last 72 hours for openly supporting protestors.

— Shireen Qudosi (@ShireenQudosi) May 31, 2020

Categorizing people whose behavior we don't approve of as "evil" is how we got here. #riots2020 https://t.co/e8g1NfEhIW

— Shireen Qudosi (@ShireenQudosi) May 31, 2020

Shireen Qudosi, according to her Clarion Project bio, “serves as Clarion Project’s National Correspondent and is involved with leading its Preventing Violent Extremism program.” Even that is not the extent to which she has people fooled: “Her voice has been featured in The Federalist, OANN,The Hill, Fox News, BBC, Women in the World, The Federalist Society, On Being, and more.”

This is to be expected, of course. Identity politics is dominant today, with the Left setting the tune and conservatives eagerly playing along. The only reason anyone has ever heard of Shireen Qudosi is because she is a Muslim who tells people what they want to hear: that Islam properly understood is a religion of peace that has nothing to do with the violence (including female genital mutilation, which is one of her particular concerns, even as she steadfastly ignores or outright denies its justifications in Islamic teaching).

In an unpleasant exchange we had last fall, Qudosi was exposed as two-faced and dishonest, but that hasn’t deterred those of dhimmi mentality who are so avid to find a “moderate Muslim” who will say that terrorism is wrong that they’ll put up with anything. But now, true to duplicitous form, Qudosi is defending violent rioters and looters, even while denying that she is defending them. When she insisted they were not evil, you can read in the comments to her tweet how she denied defending the rioters when confronted with a photo of an innocent man whom rioters had killed. But she didn’t retract or take down her statements supporting and defending the riots.

So once again we see Shireen Qudosi wanting to have things both ways, as we have seen before. That is one of the key problems with the moderate Muslim enterprise in general, whenever these moderates don’t confront the Islamic texts that justify and call for violence and oppression, and actually deny that they exist. They want to be Muslim, that is, followers of a holy book that calls for warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers, and of a prophet who waged war against and subjugated unbelievers, while denying that warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers is part of their faith. It would be like a Christian saying, “Yes, I’m a Christian, but I burn incense at the altar of Zeus whenever I can.” Ultimately the contradiction will be obvious to everyone, and unsustainable.

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  1. ronit says

    May 31, 2020 at 11:04 am

    ”categorizing those whose behavior we don’t approve os as Evil, is how we got here”….. saying someone who believe that anyone who is not a Muslim is an infidel and there is nothing wrong in killing them.

    • gravenimage says

      May 31, 2020 at 2:39 pm

      Grimly true.

  2. CogitoErgoSum says

    May 31, 2020 at 11:12 am

    Those who worship a god that is evil become blinded to all that is evil.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      May 31, 2020 at 12:33 pm

      In fact Ben Shapiro did not say that anyone who disagrees with him is evil. He said that defending evil actions is evil. Rioting, arson, attacking law enforcement officers and looting and destroying the property of others are all evil acts. Furthermore, I know of no one who has defended the actions of the officer charged with the death of George Floyd – although the man is entitled to present a defense of his actrions in a court of law. To deny him that right would be evil. The woman demonstrates a complete lack of clarity in her thinking.

      • gravenimage says

        May 31, 2020 at 2:57 pm

        I think this is less about lack of clarity and more about supporting violence and wanting to see America harmed.

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          May 31, 2020 at 3:32 pm

          Yes, confusion is more helpful to her in achieving her goal of destroying American society.

  3. RichardL says

    May 31, 2020 at 11:14 am

    When the left “protests” it looks like a riot, when the right protests it looks like a picnic. When islam protests it looks ugly.

    • gravenimage says

      May 31, 2020 at 7:22 pm

      This is often true–I remember leftists claimed to be so terrified of Tea Party protests–and it was largely just a bunch of mostly older couples out in silly hats with coolers full of lemonade and sandwiches.

  4. Westman says

    May 31, 2020 at 12:24 pm

    The violent thugs who damaged property and lives while lurking in the shadow of a protest were evil, rootless, extended adolescents. If “clever”, they can declare that they were having, “temporary insanity”.

    It seems that both the hard Left and Jihadists are so heavily indoctrinated that they no longer know the definition of evil. One can surmize that none of the murderous despots of history thought they were evil. Their first step was considering those who disagreed with their ideology as the enemy. Islam has built in evil generator with the declaration that unbelievers are the worthless enemy.

    Evil: Morally bad or wrong; wicked. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    May 31, 2020 at 1:21 pm

    Three points need to be made ,the first two points have do do with being honest and by keep within within the bounds of reality and calling people and things that they really are.

    First ,the vague term ” violent extremism” is not specific enough .To be accurate the terms “Islamic Terrorism” or “Muslim terrorism” more clear and precise .For as explained before on this site the very word “extremism” countries there in reference to a Muslim who is a violent jihadist is viewed as”nonsense”and meaningless.

    For in many Islamic nations a jihadist who engages in terrorism for the cause of Islam is seen ,by many as a “devote Muslim “or a “Muslim who is totally committed to Islam” he isn’t viewed as an “extremist”

    Second, when person or a group of people engage in brutal, cruel murderous violence he or they are , To use a Bible term, “evil doers” they are doing evil and is a reflection on them as “Evil.” No matter if those Islamic terrorists sincerely believe that they committing violent and deadly actions “for the greater good.” is a deluded fools “logic” That the exact same kind of “reasoning ” or excuse spoken by the Communists in the last century then they commit murderous atrocities .They claimed that they are doing all that violence and killing “For the greater good”

    To refuse to call a violent and deadly terrorist “evil” and only condemning his actions is just like refusing to call rapist ” evil ” and only condemning his vile actions of rape.

    So as it’s fitting to call rapist evil it’s likewise appropriate To call a murderous Muslim terrorists evil.

    Third it’s not actually possible to “reform Islam” if by the meaning of the word is referring to “turning Islam into a non-violent religion.” This is because Islam is,in essence, a religion of violence and killing ,As seen in the Qur ‘an ,4:89. 5:33. 9;111,123. 47:4. So as for the very idea of “reforming Islam” the very best that can be realistically hope for is a watered down ,not totally Qu ‘an based mild non-violent Islam”

    This type of “Islam” many imams and mullahs , throughout world , would strongly condemn as apostate Islam.

    To explain is idea of “reforming Islam into non-violent religion” in the light of the Bible .It is written,
    “What is crooked cannot be made straight…” Ecclesiastes 1:15. [N.K.J.V.]

  6. gravenimage says

    May 31, 2020 at 2:37 pm

    Muslim “reformer” at Clarion’s Preventing Violent Extremism program outraged at violent rioters being called “evil”
    ……………………

    In other words, this Muslim attendee of a “preventing violent extremism” program does not actually oppose violence,. What a surprise!

  7. Larry A. Singleton says

    May 31, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    I was just banned on Twitter the other day. No reason given. Just this message from Big Brother:

    “Your account is suspended and is not permitted to send Tweets.”

    My Twitter apparently frozen solid from the day of my thought crime, including the last post from President Trump and last message I got.

    Here was my quick message and response in their sham of an “You can appeal” feature:

    Letter to Twitter Nazis 5-30-20

    Still Blocked/Censored/Banned by these New Nazi Kapos. No reason was given by these faceless, no-name, anonymous cowards. My page is stuck on the time I was blocked with this message:

    “Your account is suspended and is not permitted to send Tweets.”

    That means that all those contacts of “Followers” has been effectively eliminated. In pure Soviet/North Korea Communist style I have been “Disappeared”.

    Many of these little fascists who run Twitter, Google/YouTube and Fakebook are products of our schools, colleges and universities run exclusively by Socialist/Communist-Marxists. Where conservatives and conservatism have been purged.

    I encourage people to read David Horowitz and Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine to learn the truth about our failed education system and get the information academia, the “Democratic” Socialist Party and their Unholy Alliance partners in the media, with whom they’re joined at the hip with, will not tell you about.

    These Twitter, Fakebook and YouTube fascists are the useful idiots, the Lazy Thinkers and “social justice” retards, being cranked out of our Re-Education system of Indoctrination and brainwashing.

    Those idiots and Twitter mobs who are culturally and historically illiterate. Who simply Do Not Read.

    You know. Morons.

    With a PS: ALL these social media companies are leftist-fascists with their own versions of Zuckerberg’s Fakebook “community standards” thought police. Where he encouraged people to “report” mostly conservative “hate speech”. Where our “leaders” are encouraging citizens to be Soviet neighborhood minders and “snitch” on their fellow citizens.

    You know. Don’t just suspect your neighbor. Turn him in.

    • Emmie says

      Jun 1, 2020 at 3:13 pm

      Larry A. Singleton–Great rant!!!

  8. Shastra says

    Jun 1, 2020 at 1:49 am

    So obvious same pattern followed from India to the USA. Yet bigoted Christian organization USCIRF condemns India for taking action but doesn’t do same for the USA.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 1, 2020 at 11:33 pm

      More anti-Christian ranting from Shastra. Does he have an actual problem with violent Jihad? Not so he has said…

  9. Linde Barrera says

    Jun 1, 2020 at 1:53 pm

    The famous rock group “QUEEN” sings an aptly named song for people such as Ms. Shireen Qudosi: “ANOTHER ONE BITES
    THE DUST”. One of the lines is “Out of the doorway the bullets rip (pause) to the sound of the beat…hey hey…” “The beat” (in my interpretation) is the steady stream of lies and
    apathetic reactions to the killings done in the name of Islam. 😈 And my Muslim neighbor here in Brooklyn, NY told me just last week that “Allah created death before he created life.” That statement is in keeping with Islam! More than once I have read here on JW that various imams from various Islamic majority countries have said: “Islam is the religion of fighting and death. It is not a religion of peace.”

  10. mortimer says

    Jun 1, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    Shireen Qudosi is a perfect example of taqiyya. She gives permission to her allies to do the thing she denounces in her opponents.

    – “Taqiyya is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it … We can go so far as to say that the practice of taqiyya is mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream … Taqiyya is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era.” – Sami Mukaram, At-Taqiyya fi ‘l-Islam (London: Mu’assisat at-Turath ad-Druzi, 2004)

    – “Taqiyya permeates almost all the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…” – former sheikh Sam Solomon

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 1, 2020 at 11:34 pm

      +1

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