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Sheikh of al-Azhar: Burning the Qur’an is an act of terrorism

Sep 3, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Al-Tayeb’s words here are carefully chosen. If ever challenged as to whether he condemns terrorism, he can say, why, yes, of course he does, with this in mind. Meanwhile, he can participate with his friend Pope Francis in interfaith counterterror efforts, working to get blasphemy against Islam included in definitions of terrorism accepted among non-Muslims. This is all part of the years-long effort by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and other Islamic authorities to compel the West to accept Sharia blasphemy restrictions and criminalize criticism of Islam.

“Burning Quran an Act of Terrorism: Al-Azhar Chief, IQNA, September 2, 2020:

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Sheikh of Egypt’s al-Azhar Islamic Center denounced recent moves to desecrate the Holy Quran in Sweden and Norway.

In a message posted on Facebook, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayyeb described burning the Quran as an act of terrorism, al-Alam TV reported.

This is a racist move and a hate crime that all human civilizations oppose, he said.

Those who committed this crime should realize that they hurt the feelings of more than a billion Muslims, the cleric deplored.

Muslim countries have strongly condemned recent incidents in Sweden and Norway in which copies of the Holy Quran were desecrated….

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  1. revereridesagain says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 11:08 am

    Well, burning a Krayon scares the hell out of most Muslims, so I suppose one could say, a la Obi-Wan, that “from a certain point of view” the clown show known as the OIC has a point. Hurt Feelings Matter!

    • mortimer says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 10:07 pm

      It isn’t about ‘hurt feelings’ at all, but about Sharia law. To ‘mention something impermissible’ about Islam is a capital offense that may not be forgiven, but must be punished with death. So burning the Koran would fall under this general category. Anyone who burns the Koran should be executed according to Sharia law.

      It is a legal matter in Islam. Any Muslim has permission to murder a blasphemer and not be punished for the killing.

      • Rufolino says

        Sep 4, 2020 at 9:10 am

        Good God !

      • David rothchild says

        Sep 4, 2020 at 9:42 am

        Well thank God most of the world don’t live under a Sharia law governed regime and therefore don’t have to follow this ridiculous 1500 year-old barbaric oppressive IDEOLOGY (not religion). Yay democracy

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 4, 2020 at 9:31 pm

          +1

  2. Frank Anderson says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 11:14 am

    According to my honored uncle, “There are usually at least 3 sides to every story: Yours, Mine and Right.”

    Burning a koran keeps people from finding out for themselves what is in it. For most of my life, I had no idea what it contained and taught. When I finally learned, it was not a “happy” experience to find out just how delusional I had been. I have read over 2 dozen books at this time and found Spencer’s Politically Incorrect Guide and Warner’s Abridged Koran to be 2 of the best places to start.

    Burning the books, any books, is just a way to keep people from seeing for themselves. It is obvious there are some attempting to lead us like lambs to the slaughter out of their deliberate ignorance.

    • Dave from San Antonio says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 12:13 pm

      Three sides to every story. How true. Until my late teens, I thought, like many, that islam was a noble type of religion and that allah was just another word for God. That was back in the late 60s. Boy, was I wrong! Islam is the most hateful, biased and violent cult on the face of the earth. If it wasn’t a death sentence to leave islam, I doubt it would still be around. I’ve read the qur’an from cover to cover. There ‘are’ some beautiful verses, but they are completely overshadowed by the hateful and violent ones. Islam permeates every facet of an islamic society, from the government on down. It ‘rules’ daily lives with an iron hand and keeps everyone ‘under the shadow of the sword’. Almost anything can be looked at as ‘blasphemy’ and in islam that can be a death penalty. I don’t agree with burning books, of any kind, as that leads to more and more ignorance. Remember the great toilet paper shortage from a couple months back? I found something ‘useful’ for the qur’an…and I didn’t have to burn it.

      • David rothchild says

        Sep 4, 2020 at 9:48 am

        LOL LOL that last part had me on the floor. Excellent comment as well by the way. I wish I could articulate that well when trying to express myself.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 7:20 pm

      Yes, I think that people should read the Qur’an rather than burning it. But an individual burning their own copy of a book does not actually prevent others from reading it.

      • Frank Anderson says

        Sep 3, 2020 at 7:29 pm

        GI, I agree that a person has every right to decide what to do with his property. My suggestion, not command, is that passing it along for others to learn is to me a way to make lemonade out of a real sour lemon. I probably will remain as impressed as imaginable with Warner’s Abridged Koran as one of the places to start. I bought a copy and passed it around to friends, who bought their own and started passing them. “Light those candles!”

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 3, 2020 at 7:31 pm

          Absolutely agree, Frank. Every Infidel should read the vicious Qur’an.

    • Beal says

      Sep 4, 2020 at 10:05 am

      There is always the internet. Every copy of the K filthy evil book burned is a good deed done.

    • Daveyboy says

      Sep 4, 2020 at 10:14 am

      The Quran is responsible for hundreds of millions of lives lost. Every page and every memory of the Quran and the Hadith and the notion of Islam (I didn’t call it the religion of Islam) should be wiped from existence. Only oppression, discrimination, terrorism, slavery, and the death of democracy can come from the continued rise of Islam.

  3. Ecosse1314 says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 11:17 am

    I suppose burning books is far more atrocious than burning churches. Will await Al Azhars considered opinion

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 7:21 pm

      Worse yet, Islam considers burning the Qur’an worse than burning people.

      • James Lincoln says

        Sep 3, 2020 at 8:22 pm

        gravenimage says,

        Correct.

        Tragically, that is not an overstatement…

      • mortimer says

        Sep 3, 2020 at 10:14 pm

        Mohammed forgave people who blasphemed his religion, but since he is dead, he cannot do so anymore. Muslims are stuck with the commandment to murder and execute all blasphemers.

        Muslims today are trying desperately to find a way out of the humiliating STUPIDITY of Sharia law’s anti-blasphemy measure which is incompatible with MODERNITY.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 4, 2020 at 9:33 pm

          Mortimer, Muhammed also had those who dared criticize Islam assassinated, including poets and a nursing mother,

  4. Boycott Turkey says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 11:27 am

    Turning Agia Sophia and Chora church to mosque was a act of terrorism And hate crime one of there excuses was that since Agia Sophia was in Turkey they could do it so why not the same in Sweden and Norway since those korans where in those countries also there’s no blasphemy laws in Europe so it’s not a hate crime

  5. FYI says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 11:31 am

    And what would muhammed say?

    “I have been made victorious through TERROR”
    Sahih Bukhari 4:52:220

    And what does allah{allah’s greatest commandment} say?

    “Belief in allah and JIHAD is his cause”
    muslim 1:149

    So,we know muhammed and his sock puppet allah’s unhelpful attitude:TERROR & JIHAD.

    The islamic response is so predictable about any slight to their HOLEY koran with its 164 Jihadist commands,its egregious errors{Scientific,Logical,Historical,Theological,grammatical etc} and all those HOLES IN THE STANDARD NARRATIVE.

    allah’s ‘perfect’ book,the koran has no errors,mistakes or incongruities in it islamic ‘scholars’ insist:well.except for all the errors,mistakes and incongruities in it.The koran is not actually worth the paper it is written on:it is clearly a plagiarized,fraudulent scripture.

    {Francis must be turning in his grave about this insult to the koran,a book of which he says ‘is opposed to every form of violence’….oh wait..the old fossil is still alive isn’t he?….listening,listening to the land he is,the ‘Pope of the EAR: a shame he is not listening to the victims of islamic jihadism who are being wiped out on those lands by islamic terror,whose instruction manual is the koran}

    • Rufolino says

      Sep 4, 2020 at 9:14 am

      Francis “turning in his grave” ? Do you refer to the Pope ?

      Wishful thinking mate !

      • FYI says

        Sep 4, 2020 at 1:49 pm

        francis is as useless as a blind shepherd with dyscalculia is to his scattered flock.Or the corpse of a deceased politician is to running a nation.

        Maybe a new pope could come,someone who,unlike francis,has no problem hearing awkward things.

  6. Sam says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 11:34 am

    Idols and piece of paper are the same.
    Piece of paper is not Allah. If idols are so bad then paper should be bad too. Muslims should focus on Allah not the piece of paper.

  7. Mafya says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 12:06 pm

    How is burning a hateful book calling for the murdering of innocent people and beating wives is terrorism ? I really loathe this hypocrite islamists. They are the biggest terrorist group on the world but they still shamelessly call opponents of that vile religion as terrorists.

  8. notnolib says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    What about honoring the koran by using it to line a cat’s litter box, or a bird cage? The free ones from the terror group CAIR works nicely.

    • talleyrand says

      Sep 4, 2020 at 8:27 am

      +1

  9. Martin says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 1:19 pm

    EGYPT – Al-Azhar Observatory condemns Charlie Hebdo’s republishing of offensive cartoons of Prophet Mohammad

    […]In an official statement, the observatory said the magazine’s “insistence on the criminal act of republishing the offensive cartoons fuels hate speech and inflames feelings between followers of different religions.”

    […]It added that this decision impedes global efforts led by major religious institutions aimed at establishing dialogue between religions, as exemplified in the signing of the Document of Human Fraternity between Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb and Vatican’s Pope Francis in February 2019.

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/379163/Egypt/Politics-/AlAzhar-Observatory-condemns-Charlie-Hebdos-republ.aspx

    ===================================================

    Pakistan condemns French paper for reprinting Mohammed cartoons

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 7:35 pm

      Yes–this disgusting story is covered here at Jihad Watch:

      “Pakistan: Muhammad cartoons ‘offend sentiments of billions of Muslims, can’t be justified as freedom of expression’”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/09/pakistan-muhammad-cartoons-offend-sentiments-of-billions-of-muslims-cant-be-justified-as-freedom-of-expression

      Of course, this is basically a threat.

      • mortimer says

        Sep 3, 2020 at 10:11 pm

        Pakistan’s point is that Sharia law over-rides all man-made laws. Freedom of speech is whatever is tolerated by Sharia … and that isn’t very much.

        Sharia law is an extinguisher that kills freedom of every kind and would turn every society into a slave society.

        • David rothchild says

          Sep 4, 2020 at 10:06 am

          Agreed agreed agreed

  10. Gork says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 5:15 pm

    If a religion cannot tolerate dissent, criticism, or even ridicule, then it is not a religion. It is a cult. I treat religions with respect. I defend myself from cults.

    • Frank Anderson says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 8:35 pm

      Gork, IN MY Opinion, there is nothing that I can argue to be illegal, violative of the law, in being or having a cult. There is violation of the law, which can be charged and enforced for having a conspiracy. It is not a choice of being a religion, cult or conspiracy; the same collection can be any or all three at the same time. But only the conspiracy is a crime.

      The short, bar review description of a conspiracy is 1) an agreement 2) of 2 or more persons [with no upper limit] 3) for an unlawful purpose or to use unlawful means for an otherwise lawful purpose 4) any overt act by any one of the participants in furtherance of the goals. The agreement of islam started about 1400 years ago; it is for an unlawful purpose to conquer, kill, loot and enslave the world; there are about 1.5 billion/milliard people joined for that purpose; over 1400 years between 250 and 1000 million people have been killed in furtherance of the goals [depending on who is estimating and the regions they consider].

      Conspiracies are considered more dangerous than individual criminal actors, because they are more likely to succeed and do more damage than individuals could do alone. Do you think this could be a good time to get serious about resisting?

    • talleyrand says

      Sep 4, 2020 at 8:36 am

      IT is NOT a religion in any way, it is an ideology in its truest form

      • JamesC. says

        Sep 4, 2020 at 8:26 pm

        Until a while before 500 BC, Ancient Near Eastern cultures did not distinguished religion from politics. The political was religious, and the religious was political.

        The cultures of the Ancient Near East show this clearly, whether one looks at the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Egyptians, the Hittites, or the Jews. The Arabic religion of Islam is another example of the same type of culture. Unlike most of these other religions cultures or political religions, it has spelt out in great deal what it understands to be demanded of it, “politically” & “religiously”.

        To complicate matters, mediaeval Europe, whether Latin or Greek, did not make the hard and fast distinction between religion and politics that most Westerners are familiar with today. To apply the modern, clear-cut, distinction between religion and politics that Westerners are familiar with to the polity of Islam, confuses the issue because it applies to Islam a separation of categories that often does not fit.

        Polities that analyse and correlate the ideas that they live by can develop as ideologies. If the ideas are not recorded in some detail and related to each other so as to form a more or less coherent whole, speaking of an ideology becomes more difficult.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 4, 2020 at 10:03 pm

          Yer–there is no separation of mosque and state in Islam.

        • Michael Copeland says

          Sep 5, 2020 at 9:54 am

          “Separation of religion and state is not an option”
          Dr. Jaafar Sheikh Idris
          http://www.jaafaridris.com/separation-of-church-and-state/

  11. gravenimage says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    Sheikh of al-Azhar: Burning the Qur’an is an act of terrorism
    ………………..

    Yes–note that when most Muslims say they “oppose terrorism”, they mean the peaceful criticism of Islam. *not* any Jihad violence.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Sep 4, 2020 at 9:45 am

      “Jihad in the way of Allah is not terrorism.”
      Qazi Hussain Ahmed,
      a former president of Jamaat-e-Islami
      https://www.tr.news/china-bends-the-knee-to-radical-islamist/?mc_cid=dece45b7b2&mc_eid=9fdbda6cc8

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 4, 2020 at 10:03 pm

        +1

  12. RichardL says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    man, I am lucky! When I left Egypt, I left a koran under the bed. It did miss a few pages only. I didn’t want to back up the toilet too much.

  13. Jayell says

    Sep 4, 2020 at 3:20 am

    “Burning the Qur’an is an act of terrorism”.

    ‘Terrorism’ is criminal action against the person with the intention to endanger that person’s life either directly or indirectly through criminal damage to property that is likely to endanger life. Simply damaging a book cannot possibly achieve any of the above. This idiotic joker is transparently concocting a lot of utterly spurious nonsense in order to contrive a pretext to justify the usual sort of ‘defensive’ aggressive criminality prescribed by islam in its ‘holy scriptures’. Only a fool would fall for this one, and only a fool would be stupid enough to try this one on and not expect intelligent people to see through it.

    • Daveyboy says

      Sep 4, 2020 at 10:37 am

      Send that article (and especially your excellent reply) to every bleeding heart sympathizer you know and maybe just maybe, they might begin to understand the agenda. You know what probably not. It’s not like these clerics and Muslim scholars haven’t been very straightforward about their feelings toward women and democracy, yet they are still being defended. Defended by my girlfriends best friend (for example) who is studying to be a podiatrist here in the US. Maybe she should go try and finish her studies abroad, I don’t know maybe Saudi Arabia. I’m pretty confident when she returns with no diploma, married with 5 sister wives, and covered in bruises , her opinion might change… Once the PTSD wears off and she’s able to speak again.

  14. Jedothek says

    Sep 4, 2020 at 10:40 am

    The clue to the insincerity of the sheikh’s statement is his use of the word “racist.” He’s probably not stupid enough to believe that.

  15. OLD GUY says

    Sep 4, 2020 at 12:40 pm

    WOW he speaks for all humanity, what an ego.

    Burning Quran is act of terrorism?

    Yet honor killing is ok,

    Child rape and dirty old men marrying 9yr. olds is ok,

    Suicide bombers are ok,

    Wife beating is ok,

    Rape gangs are ok.

    Burning Christian churches and Christians is ok.

    Stoning to death or throwing gays off of high rise buildings is ok.

    Threats and terrorism against non-muslims is ok.

    So my question for this idiot is why should I give a dam about what his warped mind thinks or care if the Quran is burnt on every street corner of the world.

    ISLAM IS TERROR!

  16. Giacomo Latta says

    Sep 4, 2020 at 5:10 pm

    ”This is a racist move”
    Could we have a description of this target race, please.

  17. JamesC. says

    Sep 4, 2020 at 7:55 pm

    Terrorism:

    Burning the Koran
    Criticising Mahometanism

    Peace and Love:

    Destroying churches
    Defecating in churches
    Decapitating a priest
    Decapitating Christian boys for not becoming Mahometans
    Crucifying opponents of ISIS
    Shooting Ethiopian Christians for not becoming Mahometans
    Using the Bible to wipe one’s backside after defecation
    Killing dozens of Nigerian Christians
    Killing aid workers
    Killing cartoonists for making fun of Mahomet
    Mutilating & killing French hostages in the Bataclan massacre: https://nypost.com/2016/07/15/horrifying-details-of-the-bataclan-theatre-massacre-revealed/
    Killing 19 people and wounding 122 in the Manchester bombing
    Raping dozens of German non-Muslims in Cologne during New Year celebrations
    Killing a Jewish woman in Paris
    Killing 2,976 people (including 19 jihadis) and wounding over 6,000 others in New York on 11 September 2001

    And those are just the acts of Mahometan love and peace that I can remember off-hand.

    Islam, guilty of terrorism ? What kind of bigoted Islamophobic monster would think that ?

  18. tgusa says

    Sep 4, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    Quoting the koran is an act of terrorism. See how that works sheikh?

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