It would be interesting to see a “moderate Muslim” spokesman in the West, one of the legion who hoodwink conservatives by claiming that Islam, rightly understood, is peaceful and benign, discuss or debate these assertions with Islam Behery, or try to refute what he says here. Instead, they will ignore it. Now, why is that?
“Egyptian Researcher Islam Behery: Mainstream Islamic Scholarship Is Radical, Leads To Terrorism – It Seeks To Wage Jihad, Spread Islam,” MEMRI, January 29, 2023:
Egyptian researcher Islam Behery said in a January 29, 2023 interview on Sky News Arabia (UAE) that like other fields of study, Islamic jurisprudence will not survive if it does not undergo reform….
Islam Behery: “[Islamic] heritage is the problem — the man-made ideological heritage. Any religion, any field of science, anything that cannot be reformed… They call [Islamic jurisprudence] ‘science,’ and I accept this, but science can be reformed. Any field of science that cannot be reformed is dead and should be studied as history. They claim that Islam is suitable for all times and all places, and I agree wholeheartedly. But right now, how is it ‘suitable for all times and all places’? Simply put, if we wanted to put labels on it, Islam has a problem with everything in our lives. Islam has a problem with women. This leads to many other problems, but Islam has a general problem with women.”
Interviewer: “We will discuss this in the final part of the show.”
Behery: “Islam has a problem with man-made laws and constitutions. Islam has a problem with the modern state — or even with the notion of a state with a flag and with borders. Islam has a problem with the economy, with banks, with interest, which they call ‘usury’… Islam has a problem with medicine, science, modern achievements, organ transplants, and all that. Islam has a problem with other religions, with human rights, with civil values, and with personal liberties.
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“Islam has a problem with everything in our lives. And yet, in their view, it is suitable for all times and all places. Unless this religion undergoes reform, it will have no followers left.”
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“The religious institutions are teaching this heritage, and it is forbidden to defy it or criticize it. The problem is not only that they oppose the enlightened, reformist movement. The problem is that this heritage that they are defending is what gave rise to ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Al-Jama’a Al-Islamiyya in the 1970’s, and the Muslim Brotherhood before them. This is beyond doubt. This fountain never dries, and the religious establishment defends this same heritage, which is its foundation. The religious establishment ostensibly condemns these terrorist acts, but knowingly or not, it serves as the main source for all these terrorist groups.
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“We could say that extremism is an ideology. It is not terrorism, but it leads to terrorism — a person implementing what he believes in. In my opinion, extremism is more dangerous than the actual terrorist acts, because after all, even if there are hundreds of thousands [of terrorists], there are still millions of Arabs. But the real problem is the extremism that is in the hearts — the ideology. Even if it appears that someone is leading an ordinary life, he could be thinking that everyone in the world is an infidel, except him. This is a completely extremist idea. Let’s put these ideas in the right context. Extremism is the most intense manifestation of any idea. Who came up with these ideas, consolidated them, spread them? The four schools of Islamic jurisprudence that believe that all the religions in world — if you can even call them ‘religions’ — constitute heresy, and are just like not believing in God at all, and only Islam allows you to enter Paradise. Isn’t this extremism?”
Interviewer: “So these four schools of Islamic jurisprudence are responsible for what is happening now?”
Behery: “Absolutely.
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“The entire world are infidels, the Jihad… Where do these ideas come from? From all four schools of jurisprudence, as well as from the books of Hadith and books of exegesis, without the slightest doubt. If you ask someone, even from the official religious establishment, about Jihad, he says [we will wage Jihad] when we become stronger — then we will raid the world and spread Islam.”
somehistory says
islam has “no problem” with “man-made” **laws** that mozlums claim a piece of filth long dead made which would make him king of the dung heap.
islam is from satan the devil and has no business in any “place and time.” It is unsuitable for all times and places, as it is evil, demonic, death-dealing filth.
PRCS says
“islam is from satan the devil and has no business in any “place and time.” It is unsuitable for all times and places, as it is evil, demonic, death-dealing filth.”
It’s an evil, man-made religion, and your constant assertions about it being from Satan place you in the same camp as “Allah’s” whack-job slaves.
Islam–like all religions–was concocted not by some guy in the sky–but by human beings who lived a long time ago.
Golem2 says
+1
PMK says
He may be a researcher but who is Islam Behery? What is he seeking? What does he think Islam should become? I
He says “Islam has a problem with other religions, with human rights, with civil values, and with personal liberties.”
He also says: “They claim that Islam is suitable for all times and all places, and I agree wholeheartedly.”
So which is it? Is Islam suitable for modern times or to people who believe in human freedom? Obviously not.
As for his math, he says even if there are hundreds of thousands of terrorists, there are millions of Arabs. What does one have to do with the other? Just one percent of one percent of one million Muslims = ten thousand. Remember wat fewer than two dozen Muslims achieved on 9/11/2001. Many of their fellow Muslims cheered them on.
PMK says
I should have said one percent of one percent of one billion Muslims….
tim gallagher says
Good to see this man getting stuck into islam. To my mind, islam is a load of primitive, barbaric and hate filled garbage. When I read parts of the Koran, the main impression I had was that it was full of hate for all non-believers and it was a murderous hatred with those calls for Muslims to go and kill the non-believers. So I would say that islam definitely has a problem with any person who does not believe in that foul god of islam and its other rubbish. Then there is all the primitive crap like the pedophilia with the child brides, the misogyny where women are treated like crap and all the other barbaric content of islam. islam needs to go. It wants a 7th centrury Arab lifestyle when we are living in the modern and enlightened world. A 7th century Arabian way of life doesn’t suit modern, civilised human beings. If islam ever succeeds in imposing its garbage on us all, it will be a hideous dark age for humanity.
somehistory says
The,
the *people in charge of things* keep re-writing old books…the ones they don’t ban from being read…such as the James Bond series, and those children’s books that use the words for girl and boy,, etc. Because, they say, they need to fit today’s world and the values of today’s world, with its ideas that people are any gender they want to be or none at all; and men can have babies,.etc
But, the book mozlums read and worship gets a huge pass, even when it is made clear that nothing in it fits with anything except the evils it produces in people, by making them believe they have rights to murder and rape that others don’t have..
somehistory says
I’m sorry, Tim. I meant to write your name and my eyes are so blurry….Tim, not the.
tim gallagher says
No worries, somehistory. I hope your health is Ok, including your eyesight. My own eyesight seems to be getting a bit worse lately and I will go and get my eyes tested soon to see if there is any deterioration. Ah, the delights of ageing. As I often write, here at Jihad Watch, I can find no redeeming feature to islam at all. It truly is like some barbaric, way out of date, religious ideology that should be in history’s rubbish bin. This rewriting of books, such as those of Dahl and Fleming, certainly seems like a weird and troubling idea to me. We are living in a very strange age in many ways, such as this gender fluidity and trans crap and plenty of other weird stuff..
somehistory says
thank you, Tim. Part of the problem with my eyes is that I have Sjogren’s which dries them out something awful, so I have to keep putting drops in to keep moisture. the moisture is not exactly like my own tears, so it tends to blur my vision. As the drops wear off, for a little while, sight is clear…until they get too dry.
I hope your eye doctor has come good news for you. Sight is precious. I take vitamins esp for the eyes, and they have helped.
I never wanted to get old and crickety, but the alternative is much worse; so I’ll take the added years.
there is no redeeming quality in islam. It is like ba’al, moloech, and dagon of old times…with the save evil source…
The Dahl thing received so much backlash, they are putting out prints with no changes.
The guy who writes the strip Dilbert, is being cancelled everywhere because he pointed out the number (% from a poll) of people who hate whites. It wouldn’t be the same for someone saying how many whites they *imagine* hate them.
So much nonsense bombarding us from all sides…and so much of it with evil intent.
We must hang in there until the end of it all. No matter how old we may become.
tim gallagher says
somehistory, I was glad to hear about the publisher, I think they said it was Puffin, putting out a version of Dahl’s books where they hadn’t made changes. I suspect that the woke brigade are going too far and that the average type of sensible person is fighting back. On a show I watch each night on Sky News there was a commentator from the Uk saying that the former Prime Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, had resigned because of the strong backlash against her support for the transgender mob and the appalling processes where they have been giving puberty blockers and even doing surgery on teenagers to stop their normal sexual development. I thought, you beauty, again the normal people have had enough of this abuse of young teens. On my health, I often say that the good thing is that the things I have wrong with me have, so far, not caused me to live with pain. Occasional pain, but, so far, not chronic. Chronic pain would be difficult. I hope your health doesn’t harm your quality of life too much. You seem fairly resilient anyway and will cope quite well with the problems that you face..
somehistory says
Thank you, Tim. It’s good to hear from those in other parts of the world who get different news and points of view.
and, glad you don’t have chronic pain. So many do, and I see many who can barely walk, using walkers and struggling. thankfully, that’s not me…yet, anyway.
I had to have an mri a few years ago, and was told, even with all my autoimmune disorders, that I am “very healthy.” The only script I take are my eye drops.
Those who are destroying the lives of the young, will pay a very heavy price. Remember what Jesus said about people who harm children.
Golem2 says
+1
pfwag says
Islam is a Borg sex cult that is even more more asinine than the LDS but at least the Mormons won’t chop off your head for some minor indiscretion.
John Allan says
Islam doesn’t HAVE a problem … it IS a problem.
Or, more accurately … THE problem!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Pretty much. But it’s a big deal that a muslim living in Egypt has said it!
mea says
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It is impossible to desecrate a feudal order that plagiarizes three [actual] religions, the code Hammurabi, while bastardizing the feudal political order a it blasphemes thee religions, the code Hammurabi under the guise oof the illiterate drunken sot, sexual predator, pedophile Muhammad’s ‘friends making up : writing’ [but never read by the illiterate muhammad] faux religious heresies.
Again, only government employees who are bought off : extorted by the muhammadans would attack their non muhammadan countrymen for heaping truth to : on every muhammadan travesty… it is impossible = you cannot do or say anything that could be considered a desecration of muhammad’s friends fraud.
In countries where the politi’Kal ‘Klass has been bribed and/or extorted by the muhammadan serial killers the general public must vote such faux religion supporting : politi’Kal traitors out of power – prosecute them to the full extent of the Law while directly suppressing the murdering feudal muhammadan heretics blasphemy of actual religions.
Dwayne Oxford says
Genesis 16:12
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Kepha says
As a Christian, I have problem with other religions, too. The way human rights advocacy is going, with its insistence that I not only tolerate the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZetc. but celebrate it as well, well, that’s a problem for me, too. It’s just that I’m not under any divine orders to hurry anyone on his way to Hell, and it is not for me to know that God hasn’t planned someone’s conversion for some time down the pike.