The final two verses of the Fatiha ask Allah:
Guide us to the straight path, the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.
The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the “straight path” is Islam — cf. Islamic apologist John Esposito’s book Islam: The Straight Path — while the path “of those who have evoked Allah’s anger” are the Jews, and those who have gone “astray” are the Christians.
The classic Qur’anic commentator Ibn Kathir explains that “the two paths He described here are both misguided,” and that those “two paths are the paths of the Christians and Jews, a fact that the believer should beware of so that he avoids them. The path of the believers is knowledge of the truth and abiding by it. In comparison, the Jews abandoned practicing the religion, while the Christians lost the true knowledge. This is why ‘anger’ descended upon the Jews, while being described as ‘led astray’ is more appropriate of the Christians.”
Ibn Kathir’s understanding of this passage is not a lone “extremist” interpretation. In fact, most Muslim commentators believe that the Jews are those who have earned Allah’s wrath and the Christians are those who have gone astray.
This is the view of Tabari, Zamakhshari, the Tafsir al-Jalalayn, the Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas, and Ibn Arabi, as well as Ibn Kathir. One contrasting, but not majority view, is that of Nisaburi, who says that “those who have incurred Allah’s wrath are the people of negligence, and those who have gone astray are the people of immoderation.”
Wahhabis drew criticism a few years back for adding “such as the Jews” and “such as the Christians” into parenthetical glosses on this passage in Qur’ans printed in Saudi Arabia.
Some Western commentators imagined that the Saudis originated this interpretation, and indeed the whole idea of Qur’anic hostility toward Jews and Christians. They found it inconceivable that Muslims all over the world would learn as a matter of course that the central prayer of their faith anathematizes Jews and Christians.
But unfortunately, this interpretation is venerable and mainstream in Islamic theology. The printing of the interpretation in parenthetical glosses into a translation would be unlikely to affect Muslim attitudes, since the Arabic text is always and everywhere normative in any case, and since so many mainstream commentaries contain the idea that the Jews and Christians are being criticized here.
Seventeen times a day, by the pious.
Jacob Blake’s father might not have been aware of this interpretation. At the same time, however, he could have chosen any kind of passage that called for unity, forgiveness, reconciliation. Instead, this.
gravenimage says
Video: Jacob Blake’s father recites Qur’an passage widely seen as condemning Jews and Christians
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Oh, great…
Les Healy says
Now it’s not just a racist cop, it’s a Islamophic cop too … why not just claim he’s actually transitioning to female and it’ll tick all the diversity boxes and make it the mega hate crime of 2020
Lee Cox says
Love your comment, Les. I would guess that incidents of beheadings of police officers will increase due to their being mean to the Muslims.
Roland says
This Jacob Blake story is getting more interesting.
gravenimage says
Jacob Blake also has assault charges on his record.
somehistory says
The voices on his ‘side’ claim he didn’t have a weapon, but he has admitted to having a knife at the time it happened.
Knives are the favored “weapon’ of moslims, are they not?
mortimer says
Further to GI: “Jacob Blake also has assault charges on his record.”
And yet, the Leftards have turned him into a sainted martyr to their cause.
gravenimage says
This has happened before, Mortimer, including with George Floyd.
curious george says
Roland says
This Jacob Blake story is getting more interesting.
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True.
As the late Paul Harvey was famous for saying, “now the rest of the story.” Unfortunately, we won’t get that from the MSM, as they will, like George Floyd, make him out to be a saint.
Ray Jarman says
Roland,
I like your reference to Paul Harvey, but if it is shown that he is a Muslim with a knife, the truth will never see the light except at places like JW, BNI and Gatestone Institute.
Jacqueline Kruger says
Allah is not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Allah wants to kill the Jews. Our God tells us to love our enemies. Our God is the “I Am” God of Heaven and earth. Allah is the God of Helliel and his army.
Remove the veil and see the truth.
E T says
It just got a lot more interesting, CAIR against his bro bono lawyer. Or to put it another way the Muslim Brotherhood hoods vs. a very good man.
E T says
Lin Wood, said “We will not go quietly, we are Americans”.
maria says
Probably he was a convert to islam or already his family was muslims
RichardL says
the mother is wonderful, fatty here is probably as smart as he is slim. After the first sentence everything was garbled anyway.
Norman Gardner says
I saw the father interviewed by Anderson Cooper who appeared frustrated with the ridiculous and incoherent responses by Mr. Blake. It appears that making a martyr of individuals with criminal records is now a major priority of the media and sports officials. They should be dealing with why so much disproportionate amount of crime is done by black criminals rather than the interaction by police and black criminals.
GreekEmpress says
So the father is Muslim?????? Or Nation of Islam???
gravenimage says
Looks like it.
jca reid says
His son was a career criminal. Really did a good job there. Blake Snr. ought to look at himself & the character of his son.
CogitoErgoSum says
Whey he says “they” just who does he mean? In the video I saw only one man shoot another man who was intentionally getting into his car after being told not to do so by a police officer. One police officer shot one man who was trying to grab a weapon from inside his car. What does he mean “they” shot his son? His son was acting stupid and what he is saying is stupid. I am all out of sympathy for stupid people doing and saying stupid things … and I don’t care what color they are.
He also says his son’s life mattered. Well, it sure didn’t look like his son felt that way about his own life, the lives of his children in the car or of anybody else around him just before he got himself shot. Nope, neither this man nor his son is getting any sympathy from me. The son should be ashamed for what he did and the father should be ashamed for what he is saying – but of course they are both too stupid to realize it.
somehistory says
The criminals commit crimes and then when the police attempt an arrest, the criminal tries to get away, get a weapon, get a weapon and then get away…it’s resisting arrest and in some cases, attempted murder.
But these ones….esp now that the hoodlums have joined up with the moslims…are ready and more than willing, to blame others for their wrongdoing and the results that come to them. They ask for the bad consequences in the first, second and third place, but never accept any responsibility for the actions that caused the consequences.
Elke D. says
Todays leftist libtards only carry tons of tissues with them preaching all these wonderful beings can be cured by singing “kumbayah” to them.
CogitoErgoSum says
I have a feeling the father is as hopped up on Islam as the son was on drugs at the time of his shooting. Definite signs of stupidity in both cases.
Francis Weber says
Watch the Martin Luther King video on YouTube from 57 years ago with hundreds of Muslims behind him.
The blacks were sold to the Americans by Muslims, what part of history can’t they understand.
Don’t tear down statues, tear down the Mosques!
somehistory says
Add islam to plain old criminality and what do you get? Blame society in general and Jews and Christians in particular.
Rufolino says
Jews and Christians are the new whipping boys of woke culture.
PRCS says
CAIR’s Nihad Awad has already misrepresented the issue:
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-demands-removal-of-jacob-blakes-hospital-bed-shackles-says-police-shooting-victim-is-being-tortured/
“Shackling an unconscious man who cannot walk — as a result of police brutality — to his hospital bed is an act of torture. The use of handcuffs only compounds the injustice done to Mr. Blake and sends the false message that he, not the officer who shot him seven times in the back, poses a danger to society. The shackles on Jacob Blake must be removed, and local authorities must treat him with the respect he deserves as both a medical patient and a human being.”
He said Washington, D.C.-based CAIR and the American Muslim community are standing in solidarity with all those challenging anti-Black racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and white supremacy.”
1. Not sure how shackling an unconcio9us person constitutes torture.
2. Uncle Nhad has determined–before all the facts are known–that the shooting is an act of police brutality.
3. Which is it? Shackled to the bed or handcuffed to it?
4. Isn’t this poor, grieving father’s son still under arrest?
P.S. The term anti-Semitism makes me think of one of CAIR’s ‘darlings’: Linda Sarsour.
The Political Oracle says
It took this ordeal for CAIR to get involved in the BLM movement. Now that this issue appeals to the narrative, CAIR can shove its ugly nose and face into the photo stand-in that was create by the rest of the heathens, socialists and fascists. White people are the targets no matter where you are and where you came from! If you are a successful white person, you are a target!
The Political Oracle says
Correction: create to created
Norman Gardner says
The trouble with Nhad`s speech is that he does not believe in what he is saying since CAIR discriminates . He believes in “Takiya”, which means it is all right to lie to benefit Islam. This is more evidence that CAIR is interested in formenting racial discrimination and an attempt to aid lawless activists into defunding the police with calls for police reform rather than dealing with black crime. CAIR is an enemy of democracy, do think that Biden understands this?
mortimer says
Seventeen times a day, by the pious Muslim, this slanderous prayer is recited. Pious Muslims recite it tens of thousands of times in a lifetime.
Talk about massive brainwashing. Reciting the ‘Fatiha’ daily is a prescription for mindless bigotry.
rubiconcrest says
… exactly Mortimer …. and some ponder the origin of Islamic extremism.
andrew mckendrick says
Seventeen times a day ? And no one listening!
mortimer says
Jacob Blake’s father has preached hatred towards Jews and Christians whether he understands it or not.
Muslims understand it.
PRCS says
Did someone teach that passage to good ole’ dad or is he a Muslim? And how about his dear, dear son?
Would be interesting to see good ‘ole Dad’s criminal record.
kiki says
Black AND Muslim, Talk about a LETHAL Dose!
gravenimage says
Actually, race is not a factor in how violent Muslims are.
Warmac9999 says
The guy who killed the father/daughter in South Carolina is likely a black Muslim. Hope the FBI checks out the local mosque for hate.
The Political Oracle says
The man said “attempted to murder.” Going to be difficult to prove this, given the circumstantial evidence that the one being shot endangered the lives of everyone else. But, let us get the facts together and see everything unfold. Let us see if the one that has been shot was trying to be a martyr for a cause or if the police officer was willfully unbecoming in his duties. The man in the video is a race-baiter and intends to antagonize and inflame certain groups into more violence.
Vipeka says
Black Americans forget that their forefathers in Africa became Moslems by force. The same tactics they use in Africa…
Not in my name
Rethmann says
Near-sightedness and Abolition of Bigotry and Prejudice
Giacomo Latta says
So who is Daddy’s speechwriter? I suspect BLM quickly phoned to ask if he would like a staged riot or not then offered a gentle-sounding quote from some unnamed religion. Now off to the Jewish lawyers to get richer than by looting.
Keys says
Is this Tweedledee or Tweedledum ?
E T says
BLM, Antifa and the Muslim Brotherhood hoods are following the Soros plan, to get rid of Trump. I do believe it is backfiring. —FREEDOM WILL prevail.
Ronald Sontag says
This does not look like the same man that appeared with Jacob’s mother.
James Lincoln says
Tragically, the initial reports regarding the shooting were grossly inaccurate. The first 5 ½ minutes of the Matt Walsh show tear down the initial narrative.
And the second video clearly shows that Jacob Blake had a curved Karambit in his possession as he walked away from the police toward the SUV.
He resisted arrest, was armed, and was seen reaching down to the floorboard of the SUV for what the police had believed could have been a gun – although no gun was found.
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The Media Narrative In The Jacob Blake Shooting Begins To Crumble | The Matt Walsh Show Ep. 552
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3YpKXBMUI0
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/column-2/new-video-jacob-blake-had-curved-karambit-knife-in-left-hand-when-shot-by-kenosha-police/
E T says
Lin Wood has agreed to take Kyle’s case pro bono, I would love to be a fly on the wall at CAIR headquarters. There may be some sobbing and thumb sucking. Timing is everything – – people are standing up to the Muslim Brotherhood hoods.
Ross Poldark says
We made a huge mistake every letting this religion into the west. This man and moslems like him should be stripped of their US citizenship and be permanently deported to one of 57 islamic nations of their own choosing.
Francis Weber says
+ infinity.