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Columnist In Jordanian Daily: ISIS 'Did Not Invent A New Islam'
MEMRI/Jordan TImes ^ | February 11, 2015

Posted on 02/17/2015 4:18:33 PM PST by SJackson

In his February 10, 2015 column in the English-language Jordanian daily Jordan Times, titled "We Have a Problem", attorney and columnist Zaid Nabulsi wrote that Muslims must not just protest that "Islam is innocent" of terrorists' actions but must also acknowledge that the extremism of terrorist organizations like ISIS emanates directly from the teachings of Wahhabi Islam that now permeate the Sunni world, and from messages spread by the Muslim Brotherhood and by prominent clerics like International Union of Muslim Scholars head Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradawi. He added that Muslims must be brave enough not merely to condemn the ideology of the terrorists, but also to renounce Islamic texts that are incompatible with basic human values, including certain hadiths that are erroneously attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, as well as the writings of certain prominent medieval scholars, such as Ibn Taymiyyah.

The following are excerpts from his column; the English has been lightly edited for clarity:

"Some Wahhabist Teachings, Which Have Permeated The Air We Breathe In The Muslim World, Are Simply Irreconcilable With Decent Human Values"

"Enough is enough. It is time to speak out. 'Islam is innocent' is an incomplete sentence. Introspection is needed, for, if we shy away from reality, the alternative will be more images like those we witnessed last Tuesday night, when brave [Jordanian pilot] Lt. Muath Al-Kasasbeh was burnt to death in a cage...

"Some Wahhabist teachings, which have permeated the air we breathe in the Muslim world, are simply irreconcilable with decent human values, especially the ones that declare that every non-Wahhabist is a disposable body whose blood may be shed without problems. So enough of this burial of our heads in the sand. It has become tiresome to keep hearing the unproductive cliché that Islam is innocent after each atrocity committed by devout fanatics who did nothing except execute the exact letter of their textbooks, which order them to slaughter the infidels.

"The escapist [view] that mainstream Islam has nothing to do with those atrocities does not hold water anymore because Wahhabism and Islam have become indistinguishable. To understand the crisis of Muslims today, one has to remember that Wahhabism exists in several textbooks containing the alleged sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, or books of 'Hadith,' revered by so many. What we must confront is the undeniable fact that it is from many stories found in these books that the unprecedented cruelty of groups such as the so-called Islamic State and Jabhat Al-Nusra emanates.

"The problem today has nothing to do with the original spirit of Prophet Muhammad’s message. Nor has it anything to do with the tumultuous history of Muslims over 14 centuries, parts of which were no doubt glorious and enlightened. The catastrophe today is with the visible manifestation of Islam in the modern world, as demonstrated by the prevalent beliefs and practices of many people who call themselves Muslims."

"[The] Negative Image Of Muslims Is Not All Just Smoke And No Fire"

"[But] this negative image of Muslims is not all just smoke and no fire. This is what those 120 Islamic scholars who sent a letter to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi last year could not fathom. [ISIS] did not invent a new Islam. On the contrary, its followers are strict adherents of the same textbooks quoted in that long letter (bizarrely addressed to 'Dr Ibrahim Awwad Al-Badri,' Baghdadi’s real name, bestowing intellectual respectability upon this mass murderer, as if one were writing a letter to the mayor of Copenhagen). In fact, the scholars’ letter was a misguided attempt to disinfect Wahhabism, to cleanse it from itself, by claiming that IS simply misinterpreted texts that are otherwise compatible with human decency. In that sense, the letter squabbled over the semantics of the alleged instructions by the Prophet to spread Islam by the sword, but it did not dare renounce the authenticity of those same sayings...

"If we truly want to defend Islam, we need to perform a much more invasive surgery. Take the Muslim Brotherhood as an example of the prevalence of the Wahhabist teachings among Muslims today. The Brotherhood is the virtual womb that incubated all the current jihadist groups, including Al-Qaeda itself (Al- Zawahiri hailed from the Egyptian MB offshoot that murdered president Anwar Sadat). Yet, when Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was killed in 2006, the three most senior leaders of the MB in Jordan brazenly visited the condolence house in Zarqa and announced to the media that Zarqawi was a martyr in the eyes of God, despite Zarqawi having blown up three hotels in Amman the previous year, killing scores of Jordanians going about their lives or celebrating a peaceful wedding...

"The orgy of decapitations in Syria over the last four years was promoted by very rich Sunni clerics such as Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and Mohammad Al-Uraifi, aided by the countless satellite stations openly calling for the murder of Alawites and Shi'ites, and financed by billions from extremely wealthy but hateful Muslims. So, enough with the denials. It is time to raise the alarm. We have a problem!"

"If We Really Want To Defend Islam As A Religion Of Mercy... We Have To Muster The Courage To Identify The Specific Texts That Actually Defame Islam, Denounce Them And Permanently Cleanse Islamic Tradition Of Them"

"There is obviously a propensity towards eliminating 'the other' imbedded deep within Wahhabist ideology. It is not only foolish to deny this fact, it is also dangerous, for we would be covering the cancerous tumour with a bandage. What we cannot deny is that many of the Wahhabist textbooks are the same operating manuals that Islamist butchers use to justify their savagery. For example, very few people know that while [the Jordanian pilot] Muath was being set on fire in that macabre video, the voiceover was a recitation of an Ibn Taymiyah fatwa deeming the incineration of unbelievers a legitimate act of jihad. Ibn Taymiyah is not some obscure scholar on the fringe of Sunni Islam. In the Sunni world, he is universally venerated with the title 'Sheikh of Islam,' elevating him to an almost infallible clerical status.

"If we really want to defend Islam as a religion of mercy, if we really want to be believed when we proclaim the innocence of this religion, we need to do more than just repeat this meaningless mantra about us having nothing to do with [ISIS]. We have to muster the courage to identify the specific texts that actually defame Islam, denounce them and permanently cleanse Islamic tradition of them."


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1 posted on 02/17/2015 4:18:33 PM PST by SJackson
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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President Obama would disagree, Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terror.

2 posted on 02/17/2015 4:19:23 PM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: SJackson

Muslim Brotherhood - Obunghole’s bosom buddies.


3 posted on 02/17/2015 4:23:12 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: SJackson; zot; NYer; marshmallow

thank you for posting this.


4 posted on 02/17/2015 4:23:20 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SJackson

Whoa. Close enough to the truth that the author is a dead man walking....


5 posted on 02/17/2015 4:24:20 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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To: SJackson

Same sh-t,different century.


6 posted on 02/17/2015 4:24:23 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: SJackson

As they used to say, “It’s the quran, stupid.”


7 posted on 02/17/2015 4:26:32 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: SJackson
He added that Muslims must be brave enough not merely to condemn the ideology of the terrorists, but also to renounce Islamic texts that are incompatible with basic human values, ...

So basically ... recognize and admit that Islam is Satanic -- and leave it.

Great advice, and brave man...

8 posted on 02/17/2015 4:27:34 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: SJackson

Read the book, it’s evil


9 posted on 02/17/2015 4:29:46 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: mosesdapoet

Columnist In Jordanian Daily: ISIS ‘Did Not Invent A New Islam’ is in correlation to your post in the “Reform” of Islam thread.

Please read.


10 posted on 02/17/2015 4:30:12 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SJackson

It is not just one sect of islam it is every freaking branch of islam....it is the koran and what it teaches period.


11 posted on 02/17/2015 4:32:56 PM PST by Lady Heron
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To: SJackson

They did not invent a new Islam; they are strictly following the old one.


12 posted on 02/17/2015 4:35:56 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SJackson

Bump


13 posted on 02/17/2015 4:38:16 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: SJackson
"Some Wahhabist Teachings, Which Have Permeated The Air We Breathe In The Muslim World, Are Simply Irreconcilable With Decent Human Values"

So what!

"Decent human values" are worldly considerations.
Islam is about doing what Allah wants done and using the examples set by his messenger Muhammed.
That is what ISIS is doing. Read the Koran and Hadiths.

If you can't abide by Islam, get out of the religion, because it is cast in stone and can't be reformed.

Apostates will lose their heads faster than us Infidels.
That's why so many heretical Muslims talk about reforming the religion.
But they will also get killed.-Tom

14 posted on 02/17/2015 4:39:49 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: SJackson

He keeps talking about wahhabis. What about salafis? ISIS are salafis. Not that wahhabis are less violent; but the 2 are different & salafis don’t accept & mock wahhabi teachings as ‘impure’.


15 posted on 02/17/2015 4:40:45 PM PST by odds
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To: SJackson

it’s not “allah is great”, it’s “allah is GREATER
greater than what?
greater than your god, mofo!
that’s a problem


16 posted on 02/17/2015 4:41:04 PM PST by dontreadthis
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To: SJackson

No sale.

Mohammed was a brigand and pirate, a thief and a mass murderer, a manstealer and a slave trader, a rapist and a pedophile, an adulterer and a polygamist, a sadistic torturer and genocidal savage.


17 posted on 02/17/2015 4:42:44 PM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Westbrook
Mohammed was a brigand and pirate, a thief and a mass murderer, a manstealer and a slave trader, a rapist and a pedophile, an adulterer and a polygamist, a sadistic torturer and genocidal savage.

Other than that, he was a pretty nice guy.

18 posted on 02/17/2015 4:48:16 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: SJackson

I have little hope that the Death Cult will become tolerant, kind, non-violent, respectful and open to non-members.
There is nothing in it that is compatible with human nature.


19 posted on 02/17/2015 4:59:04 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: SJackson

all one needs to do to understand IS is read the history of mohammed. Apparently many western liberals want to ignore that and focus on their imaginery view of islam


20 posted on 02/17/2015 5:00:15 PM PST by RginTN
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