Rizvi, the former chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Shia Central Waqf Board has filed a petition in the Indian Supreme Court asking that 26 Qur’an verses be removed; he says that “these verses were added to the Quran, by the first three Caliphs, to aid the expansion of Islam by war.”
It is worth noting that those caliphs are not recognized by Shi’ites, as they believe that Muhammad chose Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor, and that he was the rightful leader of the Muslims throughout the period in which those caliphs ruled. In any case, a Muslim cleric responded to Rizvi’s petition by offering money for Rizvi’s head, thereby indicating that he knows the verses of violence are in the Qur’an (contrary to the claims of Islamic apologists in the West), and is just fine with that fact.
It’s difficult to see what other outcome Rizvi might have expected. The Indian Supreme Court can’t change the Qur’an, and even if it tried, the overwhelming majority of Muslims wouldn’t take their version seriously. Rizvi was most likely attempting to call attention to the existence within the Qur’an of these exhortations to violence, although he surely knows that Shi’ites and not just Sunnis accept the verses to which he is objecting. Anyway, now the bounty on his head has abundantly attested to the existence of these verses.
“As Waseem Rizvi files petition to remove parts in Quran that ‘promote terrorism and Jihad’, Muslim cleric offers bounty of 20k to behead him,” OpIndia, March 13, 2021:
A day after UP Shia Central Waqf Board ex-chairperson, Syed Waseem Rizvi filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking to remove 26 verses of the Quran alleging that it promoted terrorism and Jihad, the Muslim clerics have taken offence to Shia leader’s petition. One of the Muslim clerics has gone a step ahead to offer a bounty of Rs 20,000 for anyone who brings Rizvi’s head.
According to the reports, Waseem Rizvi’s decision to file a petition seeking the removal of objectionable parts in the Quran has not gone well within the Muslim community. Muslim clerics have condemned Rizvi for challenging the Holy Quran and its chapters.
In response to Rizvi’s petition, Islamic Cleric Hasnain Jaffrey Dumpy, the national president of Islamic organisation – Shiane-Haider-e-Karrar Welfare Association, has now announced a bounty of Rs 20,000 to anybody who beheads Rizvi. Reportedly, Dumpy had released a video issuing death threats to Rizvi and condemned the petition filed against the Quran.
Shia cleric Dumpy said he would launch a nationwide campaign against Waseem Rizvi for disrespecting Quran and said that former Shia Waqf Board chairman would be boycotted in the future. After issuing bounty, Islamic cleric Dumpy also urged the administration to take action against Rizvi for allegedly attempting to hurt Muslims’ sentiments by speaking ill of Quran. He claimed Rizvi’s statement could incite violence in society and demanded his immediate arrest….
The Islamic cleric demanded Waseem Razvi [sic] be booked under Section 295A of IPC and other relevant provisions for deliberately and maliciously hurting our feelings by insulting the holy book.
Waseem Rizvi files petition in Supreme Court
On Thursday, Syed Waseem Rizvi filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking that “26 verses of the Quran be removed”. In his petition, Rizvi has stated that the Quran, the holy book of Muslims, has “some verses that are used to promote terrorism, violence, jihad”.
In the PIL, Rizvi has claimed that these verses were added to the holy book of Muslims later. “These verses were added to the Quran, by the first three Caliphs, to aid the expansion of Islam by war”, the former Chairman of the Shia Waqf Board said according to media reports.
Rizvi wrote in the petition that “after Mohammad, the first Caliphs Hazrat Abu Bakr, the second Caliphs Hazrat Umar and the third namely Hazrat Usman released the Quran as a book, based on the oral preachings of Mohammad”. This was passed on from generation to generation.
Rizvi has added in his petition that almost 26 verses that were added to the Quran by these Caliphs promoted violence. According to Rizvi, terrorists use these verses to fuel jihad. He also said that these verses are used to mislead the young Muslims generation, provoking them to become radicals and terrorists resulting in the massacre of millions of innocents.
No Muzzies Here says
For this and other reasons it doesn’t look like there will be any reform in Islam any time soon.
Jayell says
All this is rather strange. I was always under the impression that the ‘Holy’ Qur’an was the word of Allah as dictated to his Prophet, and therefore couldn’t be changed. So, since islam and muslims are getting such an atrocious press these days, do I understand it that perhaps Allah has told one of his disciples to do a quick editing job to improve the ratings? If so, where are the tablets of stone or has Allah gone digital now? It wouldn’t be at all surprising for Allah to change his mind on something because he was always doing that sort of thing back in Mohammed’s day when he often thought of a ‘better way’ in some matter, strangely round about the same time that his Prophet came to exactly the same conclusion. Funny thing, coincidence!
mortimer says
The Koran has problems of PROVENANCE … no one can find a complete Koran from the 7th century! This suggests that the Koran is not even from the FIRST THREE CALIPHS, but from the eighth, ninth and tenth caliphs living 60 to 150 years after Mohammed.
Terry Gain says
If increasing the number of Virgins In Paradise doesn’t work Allah may have to go all woke and approve of homosexuality and transgenderism. And perhaps Jihad will be restricted to Republicans in America and conservatives and capitalists in other countries.
Infidel says
If one can convert to islam by merely reciting a few words – the shehada – can allah come up w/ a line that one can use to flip one’s gender? So that they can formalize their ‘conversion’ from male to female, or female to male? Then islam and trannyism can do a mind-meld, of sorts
pfwag says
Transgender virgins?
mortimer says
Agree. Waseem Rizvi’s idea that the JIHADIC “… verses were added to the Quran, by the first three Caliphs, to aid the expansion of Islam by war” would lead not to the reform of Islam, but to its demolition and abandonment by thinking people.
Waseem Rizvi’s call for critical thought about the Koran will lead to its total repudiation by any Muslims who start to delve into the Koran’s self-referential incoherencies and historical development. Once a Muslim observes the incompatibility of Islam with modernity, he starts on the road to doubt.
Raja says
No Muzzies,
With all due respective to you, let’s not hope for reformation of Islam but rather shaming of Islam as it is “best of the deceivers and genocide-enablers”.
No need to ban Islam but speak up against Islam and help those that leave Islam, as beheading / murder is the sole deterrence of leaving Islam, a potent weapon beside societal stigma of being an outcast.
gravenimage says
+1
Charlie in NY says
Does he provide any evidence for his claim of interpolation or does he just assert it as fact? Without evidence, his petition risks being rejected and he will have cut off the very branch out onto which he’s climbed.
But what was the precise basis on which he seeks this removal. It has to be more than simply a claim that the “true” text has been corrupted nearly 1,400 years ago. Does he argue, for instance, that these verses call for violence today against groups that still exist and are identifiable, and therefore they incite violence or communal strife – and do those claims amount to a cause of action in India?
Peter Buckley says
Hilarious. He wants to remove 26 verses from “the perfect book”, from “Allah’s final message”.
JW readers may be interested to know that “some” muslims are already trying to change the texts of Quran and hadith. Why? They are EMBARRASSED by them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLmZ-5bZPKY&t=2s
How we are enjoying watching the ummah fall apart.
What wondrous times are these……
Steve says
What a ridiculously ignorant statement to make from a person who takes the words in a book to order the execution of another Muslim who is just trying to stop the world from rising up against Islam because of its violent behaviour from what is supposed to be a religion of peace? Proof enough that Islam is a religion of hate.
mortimer says
Remove the following jihad verses as well …
The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 2:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 3:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 4:71-72, 74-077, 84, 89-91, 94-95,100-104; 5:33, 35, 82; 8:1, 5, 7, 9-10, 12, 15-17, 39-48, 57-60, 65-75; 9:5, 12-14, 16, 19-20, 24-26, 29, 36, 38-39, 41, 44, 52, 73, 81, 83, 86, 88, 92, 111, 120, 122-123; 16:110; 22:39, 58, 78; 24:53, 55; 25:52; 29:6, 69; 33:15, 18, 20, 23, 25-27, 50; 42:39; 47:4, 20, 35; 48:15-24; 49:15; 59:2, 5-8, 14; 60:9; 61:4, 11, 13; 63:4; 64:14; 66:9; 73:20; 76:8.
The Koran will become a very small book.
mortimer says
Reply to Steve: here’s the dilemma … If you say that Islam is too violent, they’ll kill you.
paulddaellis says
Does anyone know which 26 verses? I would be interested in why he thinks they post-date Muhammad.
Westman says
Yup. The Quran subtitle: “Robbing And Killing Kuffar For Dummies”
gravenimage says
Yep.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
The bounty is being offered by someone named Dumpy, which sounds like the name of a children’s cartoon character. What a piker Dumpy is! 20,000 Indian rupees is worth only $285 (1 USD = 72.71 INR).
Shakti Swami says
And the scary thing is someone might still go for it, not that bounty is needed for it to happen.
Mike says
Cult of Hate
Not a Religion a cult
that promotes hate
more of the reason for what the cult of hate call islamophobia
Islam your complaining that are islamophobia against Islam
Any Muslim any one I want you to explain why we should not fear you (I don’t) but this story is just proof you not for peace and never will
Kill your own for peace
Anyone
Dude says
Certainly, the Medina Bandit texts will be supported by the bandits, rapists, murderers, slavers, and world-domination thugs.
I guess the clerics fall into the last category, so deeply attached to their delusions of grandeur yet desperate to get into paradise asap.
However the book granting, fuelling their precious delusions tells them they can’t go until every living human on this planet is a muslim.
That means either preach or kill, but preaching is such an irrational hard sell – only morons but into it.
Keith O says
What I find hilarious is that fat bastard,,I mean Dumpy, wants Rizvi charged for hurting his feelings!
Huh, it’s somehow acceptable for mudslimes to commit any number of violent crimes against anyone they choose to, but we are not allowed to hurt their feelings?
gravenimage says
This is common–Muslims claim that their feelings have been hurt, and then threaten to murder them.
Raja says
Shame on BJP, the “ruling right wing party” for aligning with other Islamo-supremacists!!!
Infidel says
How? Where? I saw nothing in the story that suggests it
Raja says
Infidel,
You are right. I got incensed when I saw the same stuff in Indian Express and the thing got ingrained in my head.
Here’s is the excerpt from that story:
Meanwhile, BJP IT cell in-charge in Kashmir Manzoor Ahmad Bhatt told The Indian Express, “We have protested against him [Rizvi] today. I have personally filed a complaint in the office of SSP Srinagar seeking an FIR against him for spreading hatred.”
Bhat said Rizvi’s actions had caused anger in the Valley. He added that the BJP would not allow anyone to hurt the religious sentiments of any community, and would ensure strict action against the Shia leader.
“The Quran teaches us peace, not violence,” reads the police complaint that the BJP leader filed. “Any kind of blasphemous act against the Holy Quran is intolerable to humanity in general and Muslims in particular.”
This is most likely true. BJP is playing with fire instead of being silent spectator of the “show”
Infidel says
Except that I haven’t seen the BJP leadership (Modi, Amit Shah, et al) do squat: they have been, as you suggest, a silent spectator of this show. It was Rizvi who formed a very shi’a specific party, and hitched it w/ the BJP. It was Rizvi who declared his support for returning the Ayodhya temple land to the Hindus (before the Supreme Court verdict), who said that Hyderabad muslim leader Owaisi was no different from Abu Baqr al Baghdadi, and who offered to accept the 5 acres of land at Dhanipur that the UP government offered the muslim community as directed by the Supreme Court, and build a hospital there instead of a mosque. Also, the Supreme Court has asked the Modi government its opinion on this petition
I don’t see Bhatt’s demands being the broader demand of the party, since he was just making the demand at the behest of the Kashmir unit of the party. So far, Rizvi’s party is still allied w/ the BJP
Raja says
Bounty of 20K is probably a token amount, criminals who are in the business of killing business rivals etc “charge” upward of 3000K (30 Million rupees) in India.
Perhaps the reward for this honest guy has been “downgraded” deliberately by the mullahs of the yore.
Raja says
Correction: 3 million rupees
Zalas says
I am convinced that, Rizvi is sending an important message to his fellow Moslems around the globe as following:
1. That Qur’an is written by the mentioned three men according to what they heard from Mohammad, and not that Qur’an falls from heaven as some claims or believe. These men then added some hadith to aids the fast growth of the Islam through jihad.
2. That these verse in Qur’an misled and will continue misleading most of the Muslims to radicalism and terrorism. Razvi is confidence of that and is true.
3. Want terrorism and radicalism in the name of jihad be stop in Islam.
4. Those clerics and whoever that want him beheaded are among those who are been misled by the verse by destroying the innocent ones and causing unrest in the world in the name of religion
Rick says
Can we send the Senate and Congress to the party for a haircut??
Hindu American says
FYI. Tunisia, an islamic country that recognizes islam as the official state religion, removed the same 26 verses many years ago.
PRCS says
Would you mind listing them?
gravenimage says
I can find no record of Tunisia having changed the Qur’an. Citations?
Hellish2050DotCom says
Interestingly the petition to the Calcutta court in 1985 to abolish the Koran also cited the Indian Penal Code 295A. “The Calcutta Qur’an Petition” book is available here: https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/sita-ram-goel/the-calcutta-quran-petition/paperback/product-nrgy6r.html
Infidel says
The story about those events in 1985 here. Incidentally, both the leading parties in Bengal – the Marxists as well as the Congress – opposed the petition
https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/calcutta-quran-petition-a-plea-to-ban-the-holy-book-36-years-ago/
Infidel says
Can Waseem Rizvi explain how every shi’a leader from Ali ibn Abi Talib right down to Agha Khan and Ayotollah Khamenei (as well as whoever leads the Zaidis, Alawis and Nusayris) happened to miss that suras 8 and 9 and all those hateful verses were added by the 3 Rashidun Caliphs that preceded Ali?
Also, the Indian Supreme Court can’t do anything about the verses, but maybe they can ban the teaching of the Qur’an to muslims, so that the latter can be fed all the pablum that we in the West are fed about islam from the Left and islamic groups
Fun fact: his side has also sought to ban the green flag of islam, claiming that Mohammed used black or white flags in his caravan, and not the Pakistani flag (On this one, he might like the ISIS flag ?)
Infidel says
Link for what I said in the last paragraph:
https://www.opindia.com/2019/07/shia-waqf-board-chief-petitions-court-to-ban-un-islamic-green-flag-sc-seeks-modi-governments-response/
Terry Gain says
Thanks Infidel. All of this is very interesting and encouraging for those of us who believe that Islam cannot withstand scrutiny.
Raja says
Terry Gain,
It is the West that has “made out that Islam cannot withstand scrutiny”. Another excuse for pussy footing with Islam. Before the advent of modern day leftism Indians of South Asia could speak openly about Islam and how bad the Muslims generally were.
The West seems to have surrendered to PCMC though it is in much better position to implement free speech. In India and other nations to the east of India like Sri Lanka (south), Myanmar et al may not enjoy free speech but Islam is seen as a catfish that eats all other fishes and they are willing to put Muslims and Islam in its place (like Rohingya Muslims)
It looks like the West will be eaten up by termites of Leftism. I think they need to scrutinize the senseless Leftism in order to survive.
Raja says
Terry,
Being content with “Islam cannot withstand scrutiny” may not be not enough. Let us take it to the next level. Let free speech blossom across the globe. This could be one of the medicines of Islamic and Leftists hegemony.
Infidel says
Raja
Aside from Burma, Sri Lanka has figured out how to deal w/ Muslims. They’ve banned burqhas and more importantly, madrasas. That’s the right approach. India by contrast is now trying to manage the content of what gets taught there, so that muslims graduating from there know more things than just the Qur’an
Infidel says
I think I like Waseem Rizvi: here are some more fun facts about him
https://www.opindia.com/2019/03/shia-waqf-board-president-calls-indira-gandhis-family-muslims-says-only-orthodox-muslims-and-gandhi-family-denies-lord-rams-existence
https://www.opindia.com/2018/05/indias-first-shia-political-party-distances-itself-from-extremist-sunnis-as-the-community-leans-closer-to-the-bjp
revereridesagain says
In other words, the clerics are appealing for removal of parts of Rizvi. One, at any rate.
Raja says
revereridesagain ,
Funny… LOL
RichardL says
good one! Much to be learned in this thread, especially from JW’s Indian readers
The Rev. David R. Graham says
Good. Text criticism of the Koran is a sure, rapid way to pull the Salafi/Shiite thorn from the Moslem flesh.
Karl says
As far as I know, it is illegal in every civilized nation to offer a reward for whoever kills a certain person because of a disagreement about religion. Why have the people who made these offers not been arrested? The nations who put up with this sort of fanaticism must be condemend by the world community.
nicholas tesdorff says
Yet another attempt at reformation of Islam bites the dust and the person who proposed it is on the run from the evils that he hoped to reform.
gravenimage says
Muslim leader calls for removal of parts of Qur’an that ‘promote terrorism,’ Muslim cleric calls for his beheading
………………..
This is the main reason why there are so few attempts to reform Islam…
James Lincoln says
So I wonder what muslim “leader” Waseem Rizvi thinks of islam now…
Infidel says
He’s a shi’a. So any criticism of islam that we all know – he’ll put that down to sunnis: that’s what he’s on record as saying in this article
https://www.opindia.com/2018/05/indias-first-shia-political-party-distances-itself-from-extremist-sunnis-as-the-community-leans-closer-to-the-bjp/
The thing I like about him is that he’s thrown sunnis – who are still 90% of Indian muslims – under the bus, and has thrown his lot w/ Hindus. He associates the sunnis w/ Pakistan, which is now India’s #2 enemy (after China), and has compared a major Indian sunni politician w/ Abu Baqr al Baghdadi
The best thing about his moves is that it’ll enable the BJP to claim that they have support on the CAA. He’s on record as advocating that persecuted shi’a too be allowed into India, but that’s not part of the bill, since Pakistan was created for all muslim sects – sunni, shi’a and ahmadiya alike, even if they may discriminate against the latter 2
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the info, Infidel…
Jairaj Yadav says
If you know the list of these 26 Verses of Quran that were added by first 3 Khalifs for expansion of Islam, please list them out. Till now I could not access the full text of Waseem’s PIL in Indian Supreme Court. I will share them as and when I come across them
Infidel says
Jairaj, it’s not known that those 26 verses were added by the first 3 caliphs: that’s just what Waseem Rizvi claims. Regardless, like RS mentioned above, the Indian Supreme Court can’t re-write the Qur’an, and even if it did, muslim parties in India wouldn’t recognize it
What they could do, though, is ban all Indian mosques from teaching the Qur’an, and only teach the watered-down propaganda that Indian educators teach – y’know – that all religions are paths to god, who has all those names like Krishna, allah, Buddha, et al, and all that other garbage that muslims are never taught in their mosques. Make them actually teach that pablum, and that should do wonders for Indo-muslim relations (where Indo means Hindu/Christian/Sikh/Buddhist/Parsi/Jain/Jew)
Trevor Loughlin says
They could also take out the parts that promote marrying six year old girls, stoning women to death and killing blasphemers along with a lot of other evil bullshit. The problem is there would be nothing left. So far better to burn this satanic text. Also children and ESN adults with low IQ’s need to be kept away from this book.
infidel says
These mad animals have already started a huge nationwide agitation against this petition and have called for the death of Rizwi… as expected
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/shias-sunnis-rally-together-to-denounce-rizvis-sc-plea/articleshow/81500693.cms?fbclid=IwAR2KEdig7LG-lW8m4XqL28xmdUXbBZ-99J_0VYUAwN3PqBC0CAiLWF-nTX4
Infidel says
It will be interesting to see whether the Indian shi’a community stands by him
ravi says
In reply to
Does anyone know which 26 verses? I would be interested in why he thinks they post-date Muhammad.
See
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaRWResources/comments/mjd3bq/remove_26_verses_from_quran_says_pil_filed_by/
for the list of the verses. I don’t think this has been posted before