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]
Thanks for posting that. I also like the comment posted by a reader at PJMedia:
EXCERPTS from reader comment:
“Egypt is also at once the most influential center of religious
orthodoxy combined with a rather casual individual approach to Islam
but which is belied by their institutions, and that latter is what
El-Sisi is addressing: they are good people living under bad
institutions and those institutions are powered by an overly us vs.
them vision of Islam.
“El-Sisi - a religious man himself - is in no way rejecting Islam, but
instead asking for it to reinvent itself as a force for good rather
than endless supremacist visions powered by morons like Sayidd Qutb
and the Muslim Brotherhood. Generally speaking, Muslims are fantastic
people but who are humans and so - like us - can be influenced by what amounts to hate speech.
“We should be so lucky as to have Obama have the brains of El-Sisi,
because what chickens-come-home-to-roost Obama and his minion Holder teach is the precise opposite of El-Sisi’s message. Why are we
suprised that Egyptians qualify as Islamophobes under America’s sick
racist and sexist ideology of political correctness.”
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That’s about half of that particular reader comment; I hope it’s OK to post it here.
Let's watch this closely.