Yeah, I can see that angle.
This heretic doesn't understand the fundmentals of his own Muslim religion.
He may end up like Anwar Sadat who wanted to play nice with us Infidels.-Tom
A shockingly candid speech, from what must now be the bravest man on the planet.
Tbe world press can’t cover this because that would mean acknowledging that the current muslim population is indeed being instructed by their religeous leaders to kill the rest of the non-muslim world.
Oooh the truth! It burns!!
Yes, it is being defeated. But if it was winning, would this guy be for it?
Since he is disliked so much by Obama and Hillary and Company one has to consider the possibility that we really have an Islamic Good Guy in the making. Hoping so.
Here are the key parts as translated on Raymond Ibrahim’s blog:
I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have to think hard about what we are facing—and I have, in fact, addressed this topic a couple of times before. It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible!
That thinking—I am not saying “religion” but “thinking”—that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world. It’s antagonizing the entire world!
Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live? Impossible!
I am saying these words here at Al Azhar, before this assembly of scholars and ulema—Allah Almighty be witness to your truth on Judgment Day concerning that which I’m talking about now.
All this that I am telling you, you cannot feel it if you remain trapped within this mindset. You need to step outside of yourselves to be able to observe it and reflect on it from a more enlightened perspective.
I say and repeat again that we are in need of a religious revolution. You, imams, are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move… because this umma is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands. [bolds mine]
The thing about the Koran is that if I read it right you could defend a very wide variety of stances depending on your strategic position at the time.
Interesting that what Sisi said is so profound and alarming to the radical Islamist...
Any person outside of Islam can see what he said clear as day is needed to be said...
In a less bizarre world this would be a non-story..
I wonder how fast Obama will have Kerry on the phone trying to get Sisi to walk back or modify his speech...
Al Sisi, with his power and influence, can staff Al Azhar University with Muslim scholars who still know Averroes and maybe that would help.
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Re Obama, that should read, "despite his Muslim indoctrination and belief.
There is a big problem with attempting to start an Islamic Reformation.
There are just too many things wrong with islam that trying to nail them to the mosque’s front door would be like attempting to attach the Manhattan Phone directory with a staple gun..
In context, Sisi might be doing the equivalent of asserting nationalism, which has a peculiarly Egyptian history.
That is, Islamic radicals and fundamentalists always push for the equivalent of internationalism, of the Muslim form, which is a return to an expansionistic type of Ottoman Empire, but with them in charge. Sultan as absolute ruler. (The Shiite version of this is similar, but with an expansionistic Shiite Empire, the “Shiite Crescent” taken from the Sunni lands.)
But the secular counter to this is nationalism. Many of the Muslim nations think of themselves as better than the “Arabs”, their derogatory name for Muslims from other countries.
The Turks, Egyptians and other North Africans, Saudis and the Bedouin in Jordan, as well as the Persian Shiites, all think of themselves as a cut above everyone else.
Previously, under pressure from the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian president Gamal Nasser went the route of popular nationalism, and was thus able to both suppress the MB as well as form the United Arab Republic with Syria, and smite the communists there, which he also correctly imagined a threat to Egypt.
But such nationalism is always multi-faceted, what we might call “two-faced”. Because Nasser was still expansionistic, wanting a pan-Arabic secular empire *with* Islam, but not ruled by it. So he played games with both the western powers and the Soviet Union, but could never be trusted.
In any event, Sisi might be moving in the direction of Nasser, at least to the point of suppressing the MB; but from there, it is anybody’s guess.