This is an important insight into the mindset of many Muslims who become jihadis. They believe that by working to please Allah they will stave off personal and societal disasters. Since waging war against unbelievers is a divine command (cf. Qur’an 8:39, 9:29, etc.) and thus a primary way to please Allah, this mindset bodes ill for non-Muslims.
“Nigerian cleric propounds new theory about COVID-19 origin,” by Akeem Abas, PM News Nigeria, September 2, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Forget about the bat being the spreader of COVID-19 or a lab in Wuhan being the originator.
A Nigerian Islamic scholar has a different theory about the virus origin: he said it arose from man’s digression from the will of God.
The propounder of this divine theory was Sheikh Mudashiru Bada, Chief Imam of Oluyole in Ibadan, capital of Oyo state.
Bada made the claim on Wednesday at the interfaith prayer session, organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oyo State Council.
The journalists sought divine intervention to arrest the recent deaths of members in the state….
According to Sheikh Bada, to overcome COVID-19 pandemic, there is need for people to fear God.
“The pandemic ravaging the whole world, especially in Nigeria, is God’s way of proving His superiority to mankind,” he said.
The renowned scholar said the absence of God’s consciousness was the bane of the present universal calamity….
Bada said that the current pandemic ravaging the world was enough evidence for people to reference and appreciate God.
“God is the pilot of life, and this is evident in what the world is experiencing at the moment. God has been proving his superiority to mankind.
“Both Christians and Muslims have been stopped from going on Holy pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Mecca, respectively, where we used to go to pray.
“We need to be more close to God at this sensitive time; both Christians and Muslims should intensify their prayers to Almighty God regularly….
revereridesagain says
Well, it’s not exactly exclusive to the slaves of Allah to credit an Angry God for everything that’s going wrong, is it? Funny how they never seem to behave the way that All Good supernatural beings would, but instead cheerfully punish the innocent for whatever they think the Fallen and Evil humans are doing now.
But lo, I’m being impertinent. And I don’t Understand…
bill says
Every one knows these soi-disant Islamic scholars are deranged, No sane person could utter the opinions that they do, ‘god/allah’ assuming he exists taught his creation only one thing, Obedience. Everything else mankind had to find out for himself or herself. We had to wait thousands of years to find out about bacteria in the eighteenth century, and not until the 20th century to discover viruses. The supposedly omniscient ‘god’ did not tell humanity about these vital things and so millions died painfully in the various plagues that came upon mankind, never mind the many injuries and battle wounds that caused death through infections.
Religion is the same to day be obedient and you will find happiness in the ‘next’ world even though you are miserable in the real world!
mortimer says
The mullahs have only ONE prescription for anything that they don’t like in society … MORE SHARIA LAW!
Their backward DEATH CULT ideology depends on authoritarian thought, irrational fear and intimidation by the Muslim mob that takes its cues from the mullahs who subtlety indicate whom they want attacked by the Muslim terrorists. The mullahs then deny that Islam has anything to do with the terrorism that they promote every day of their careers as religious leaders. Plausible deniability rules from the subtle, inscrutable, prevaricating, Taqiyya-meister mullahs.
Westman says
Where do these ignorant Muslim clerics come from? By this fellow’s (non)reasoning, God sent Hitler to cause the death of 80 Million humans, about 3% of the worlds 1940 population.
The 1918 Spanish Flu killed about 30 Million of 1.9 Billion 1917 population, about 1.6%
To get some perspective, the current world death total, due to Covid, is about 4.68 Million from a population of 7.92 BILLION or 0.06% of the world population.
About 1.35 Million people will die in vehicle “accidents” this year and at this rate for more than 3 years, equalling the people lost so far, due to Covid, in almost 2 years. Did God send vehicles to punish humans?
Did Sheikh Mudashiru Bada forget that good, obedient, Muslims are dying from Covid? Does Allah toy with his faithful slaves for amusement?
The “motherload of bad (and erroneous) ideas” just flows out of ignorant Muslim clerics; they must be an embarrassment to educated Muslims.