The Taliban are Deobandis. And now the Deobandis have a college in Chicago. What could possibly go wrong? Celebrate diversity!
“Chicago Deobandi Madrassa Accredited as College,” by Sam Westrop, Focus On Western Islamism, July 30, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Darul Qasim, an Islamic seminary in the suburbs of Chicago, has announced that the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) has awarded the institution “a license to operate as a college.”
Founded by Shaykh Mohammad Amin Kholwadia in 2000, Darul Qasim offers courses on Islamic law, theology, Qur’an recitation, among other Islamic topics. Ultimately, according to the IBHE, Darul Qasim is working to provide “a master’s level degree in Islamic Law and Theology.”
The IBHE seems to believe, however, that the institution “primarily serves Muslim students from diverse ethnic minority groups” and turns them into “imams (spiritual leaders) for Muslim communities, counselors, and chaplains.”
But Darul Qasim is not just a Muslim college. It is an institution belonging to the Deobands, a hardline South Asian movement established in the 19th century, whose offshoots include the Taliban.
Various Deobandi institutions and madrassahs across South Asia have long been considered key driving forces behind Islamist terror in the region. In 2011, Dr. Ejaz Hussain, at the University of Pennsylvania, estimated that although just 20% of Muslims in Pakistan are Deobandi, some 90% of terrorist operatives are from Deobandi backgrounds.
However, the Deobandi sect contains many different sub-movements; some of which have few links to terrorism or violence.
Darul Qasim certainly appears to be a lawful, peaceful component of this global movement; but it does not hide its Deobandi ideals. Its faculty almost all claim to have been educated at Deobandi institutions. And Darul Qasim’s website is filled with references to Deobandi ideas, including defenses of a curriculum named Dars-i-Nizami, which is used globally by Deobandi institutions.
Consequently, hardline ideas are taught at Darul Qasim to its young students.
In 2009, Darul Qasim’s founder and current head, Shaykh Amin Kholwadia, explained that the punishment for acts of homosexuality is death: “[Prophet Muhammad] did say that you should kill that person … there’s no prescribed method of killing or executing those people. The issue was just to, if you do find them guilty, then you best remove them from sight.”
Amin repeated this advice in another Darul Qasim talk in May 2022, during a talk about the punishment of homosexuals, declaring that the punishment for extramarital sex is to be “stoned.” He also despaired that other American Muslims “get onto the bandwagon of the liberal movement and they assume everybody in the USA is with the gay movement.”
In another talk, given in 2013, Amin discussed “premarital relationships” and explained: “And how do you punish such people? So the Qur’an says, this is the way you punish such people. First … you flog each one of them, the boy and the girl, the man, and the woman – 100 lashes.”
Some of the rhetoric expressed by members of the faculty at Darul Qasim is also alarming. Hisham Dawood, for instance, is the Chair of the Department of Islamic Law at the college.
Muslim women, Dawood claims, should be discouraged from leaving their houses, in order to “ensure that the fabric of communal modesty remains unviolated.” He explains that “Habitual attendance in public causes an obvious laxation in morals,” especially “in light of the immodesty and fitnah which is rife in this day and age.”…
Hoi Polloi says
Meanwhile on slate, they can only find fault with individuals who have decided to wear what they intended as a pejorative, Christian Nationalist, and to wear it with pride.
mortimer says
American nationalists are problem? Well, the DEOBANDIS are nationalists too … ISLAMIC UMMAH NATIONALISTS.
Read and weep:
“Deobandi is an Islamic movement founded in 1867 in South Asia following the failure of the Sepoy Rebellion ten years earlier, originating in Wahhabism. It developed in reaction to British colonialism, and the group founded the Darul Uloom Deoband, an Islamic revivalist and anti-imperialist school in Deoband, India; today, 20% of Indian Muslims and between 15% and 20% of Pakistani Muslims are Deobandi. The Deobandis saw British colonialism to be corrupting Islam, and thousands of madaaris were opened across the world by Deobandis. During the 1970s, Deobandis opened the first British-based Muslim religious seminaries, educating imams and religious scholars. By 2007, about 600 of Britain’s 1,500 mosques were under the control of a hardline sect, calling on Muslims to shed blood for Allah and preaching contempt for Christians, Jews, and Hindus. By 2014, 45% of Britain’s mosques and nearly all of the UK-based training of Islamic scholars were controlled by the Deobandi movement. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Taliban, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan militant groups follow the Deobandi ideology.”
Grace says
I can’t understand people who don’t’ take this agenda at its word. When Islam tells you, in writing, it will kill your dog, Drop homosexuals from high buildings, Slit the throats of Christians, believe them. When they say they can beat their wives and honor kill their children, believe them. When they repeat over and over again for the last 1400 years that Allah will rule the world and Sharia will be law, and all the infidels will be slaughtered, believe them. We worry about Marxism, Socialism and Communism while Islam is the elephant in the tent. How many of our new members of Congress have sworn their oath of allegiance on the Koran?
Hoi Polloi says
I cannot understand why I should be expected to submit to rulings from the bench or the authority of an officer whose creed calls them to kill Christians and Jews wherever they find them, says that women are half human, and that children are sexual targets. As a start. But expect that they do.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Grace. Too many are in willful denial.
mortimer says
A proverb applies here: ‘THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS.’
Yes, in the details of SHARIA LAW MANUALS. That is what these ‘Deobandi’ Pakistani Muslims are promoting … while at the same time pretending not to promote it.
What they are discussing is CRUEL and UNUSUAL punishments that prohibited in the USA. All of these punishments come from Allah, so they are ‘correct’.
So why do people with these opinions come to the USA, instead of remaining in Muslim-majority countries. Backward, vicious, discriminatory, misogynistic Sharia law will NEVER, EVER be acceptable to an American supreme court.
Every serious Muslim who promises to uphold the US constitution and American law is PERJURYING himself or herself.
Islam turns everyone into a liar.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
So why do people with these opinions come to the USA, instead of remaining in Muslim-majority countries.
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As you know, Mortimer, this is a type of Hijira–emigrating for the specific purpose of spreading Islam around the world as much as possible.
mortimer says
Yes, GI, they lie about their supremacist agenda of taking over the USA and then changing the constitution to ESTABLISH Islam as the American state religion.
Groups like this one (Darul Qasim) are planning one or two hundred years ahead. They are convinced they will trick the Americans into dhimmitude. Fortunately for them, the Dems are falling right into their trap.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Mortimer.
mortimer says
Someone should record them discussing what to do with one of their children who has apostasized from Islam !
That would be fascinating for Americans … if they have the intestinal fortitude to listen to what Islam actually teaches and not the fantasy version of Islam.
Fitna says
Great point Mortimer….we keep ignoring the jihadi elephant in the room.
If normal westerners truly listened to what Muslims believe in practice in reality, they’d be disgusted and shocked and would demand this ideology was outlawed.
mortimer says
To Fitna, a large number of Americans were turned off Islam when the watched a TV series called ‘All American Muslim’. When they discovered the Islamic hatred towards DOGS (i.e. man’s best friend), Americans were enraged and the rest of the show was cancelled.
Threaten the DOGS of Americans and they react QUICKLY and DRAMATICALLY. Maybe that is the best way to get them interested in the topic of Islam.
AMERICANS, ISLAM WANTS TO KILL YOUR DOG. Mohammed said so. Mohammed is the authority on Islam.
gravenimage says
Yes–not actually very American even in the bowdlerized version.
gravenimage says
+1
Kenneth J Johnson says
One more ste down he slipery sloope to Sharia. What is wrong eith the board of education to llicense such a group A repet t of the Texas fiasco buton the adulkt llevel., where they should know better I just don’t know where these peoplle are coming from
KEN
mortimer says
The Leftists are in bed with Muslim supremacists.
gravenimage says
Chicago: Madrassa of group that supports killing of homosexuals and lashing for premarital sex gets accredited
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That this is possible is utter madness.
mortimer says
The freedom of religion applies to Islam as a ‘religion’, but Islam doesn’t even call itself a ‘religion’.
Sharia law makes it clear that Islam is a ‘DEEN’ (a system of governance). Since Islam is a ‘party’ or ‘ideology’ or alternative governmental system (such as communism) it should be registered as a political party.
The punishments that these Deobandi fanatics are discussing are matters of CIVIL and CRIMINAL LAW that are not a usual part of any other religion.
The Darul Qasim seminary is discussing CHANGING AMERICAN LAWS to make them conform with discriminatory, supremacist, misogynistic SHARIA LAW.
They are political revolutionaries.
gravenimage says
Yes–Islam being a religion is only part of it.
Andrew Blackadder says
So when these morons speak about getting somebody stoned they aint talking about smoking a Joint and listening to music… Right ?.
mortimer says
Most of them are not ‘morons’, but they are deeply emotionally invested in a false political ideology that they have been deceived to believe comes directly from the Deity.
Deobandism is a nationalistic, Islamic movement founded in 1867 in colonial India following the failure of the Sepoy Rebellion ten years earlier, originating in Wahhabism.
They are per se highly political with the goal of creating a Sharia state for Indian Muslims. There are now two Muslim Sharia states: Pakistan and Bangladesh in which this Sharia paradise is being built to the detriment of everyone who doesn’t want it.
Devasur says
Islam should have been hunted down like communism but the opposite is happening. The MSM and so-called intellectuals are overhyping it and spreading it.
mortimer says
To Devasur: you seem to want a world war. In the West, communists are working in an alliance of evil with Muslims to overturn all traditional Western ideals.
It is a culture war at this moment.
Devasur says
it is not I want it. it is a fact that war with Islam is inevitable. Anyone who has knowledge of Islamic history knows that.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, I’m afraid this is much more than just a culture war, even at this point. Many Muslims are indeed killing Infidels in Dar-al-Harb right now. There is a war, but we are not waging it.
gravenimage says
Actually, Devasur, many phony intellectuals are big advocates of communism to this day.
Veracious_one says
Just what are the requirements that the ILLINOIS BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION use to determine who gets approved for a license to operate as a college….
gravenimage says
Damn good question, Veracious_one.
Infidel says
I just wonder how many sane muslims would send their kids to a madrassa, much less one like this one?
somehistory says
this isn’t just the camel’s nose in the tent. the animal is fully in and spitting, biting is next, with kicking victims while they are down.
Camels kill.
Wonder if bobiden will keep them from getting Pell grants and student loans…due to their animosity toward the alphabet people. If he can keep a Christian school in Florida from getting lunch money for the poor kids in Tampa, then he can withhold Fed student aid from these terrorists in training.
gravenimage says
Murdering gays is OK, but this is not:
“Biden’s handlers set to deny school lunch funding to Christian school that refuses to obey LGBT mandates”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/08/bidens-handlers-set-to-deny-school-lunch-funding-to-christian-school-that-refuses-to-obey-lgbt-mandates#comment-2435828
Whatever one’s views on LBGT this is just nuts.