Note that Shaker Elsayed refers to “our ummah, including the Islamists.” The word “Islamist” is generally used to refer to adherents of political Islam, which is inherently authoritarian and supremacist. Yet we are constantly told that anyone who thinks that Islam has a political aspect is a greasy Islamophobe to be vilified and ostracized everywhere. […]
Virginia: Imam says coronavirus is Allah’s trial for “violations not only by the Jewish people, but every nation”
Shaker Elsayed is actually making an extended pitch for the idea that the coronavirus is Allah’s punishment for not obeying the Sharia, and so can only be cured by Sharia obedience. This is akin to another claim that other Islamic apologists in the West have been making recently: Islam long ago prescribed masks and forbade […]
Virginia: Imam prays that Allah would “grant victory to his servants, the mujahideen, wherever they are”
All the regimes against which the imam Shaker Elsayed rails are non-Sharia regimes. And when he asks Allah to grant victory to the mujahideen, he doesn’t have an interior spiritual struggle in mind, as is made clear when he says: “The door to freedom is stained red with the blood of all the hands that […]