Posted on 06/19/2019 9:41:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan recently attended a meeting of Muslim states in Mecca, where he delivered himself of some thoughts on the unfairness of blaming Islam for terrorism. He asserted, not for the first time, that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism.
No one ever blamed Hinduism for Tamil Tigers bombings or Japanese religion when they blew up themselves on US ships. So why Islam is branded so? Khan said during the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Makkah.
He asserted that the Muslim world has not been able to powerfully convince the world that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, adding that the OIC should clarify its propaganda about Muslims.
This was duly reported around the world, without his charges being subject to critical examination. But Imran Khan had a number of things wrong aside, of course, from his absurd claim the Islam has nothing to do with terrorism.
First, he wondered why Hinduism was not blamed for the terrorist attacks of the Tamil Tigers. But the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), were not inspired by Hinduism; no Hindu texts were relied on by them to justify their attacks; some of the Tamil Tigers were not even Hindus. Compare the Tamil Tigers to Muslim terrorists, who are acting according to the Quranic verses that command them to wage violent Jihad against all Unbelievers, and to strike terror in their hearts. The goal of jihad is ultimately to conquer the world for the faith, so that Islam everywhere dominates, and Muslims rule, everywhere.
The LTTE, by contrast, was a self-styled national liberation organization, with the primary goal of establishing an independent Tamil state in northern Sri Lanka. It had nothing to do with spreading Hinduism; Tamil nationalism was the basis of its ideology. The LTTE denied being a separatist movement based on religion non-Hindu Tamils were members, while non-Tamil Hindus were not. It t saw itself as fighting for self-determination and the restoration of Tamil sovereignty in part of Sri Lanka. The LTTE was an avowedly secular organization; religion did not play any discernible part in its ideology. In fact, the LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was a secularist who criticized what he saw as the oppressive features of traditional Hindu Tamil society, such as the caste system and gender inequality. And that is why no one blamed Hinduism for the terrorism of the Tamil Tigers. Its doubtful that Imran Khan knew any of this; he is known not for his intellect, but for his skills as a cricket player and playboy before he entered politics, and apparently he did not feel the need to learn more about the Tamil Tigers and their nationalist and secular agenda, before presuming to pontificate about them.
It may be worth noting that Khans knowledge of geography has also put to the test, and found wanting:
Imran Khan was recently the object of scorn for confusing Japan with France, when he made comments about Japan and Germany sharing a border, discussed here; https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/pakistan/imran-khan-on-the-border-region-of-germany-and-japan-1.63501476
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khans knowledge of geography came under the scanner when he said that Germany, situated in Central Europe, shares a border with Japan, an island nation in East Asia.
The faux pas happened when the Pakistan PM was emphatically advocating the necessity of promoting trade between the two countries to ensure peace ibeen n a speech.
The more trade you have with each other your ties automatically gets [sic] stronger. Germany and Japan killed millions of their civilians, until after the Second World War. [[In]the border region of Germany and Japan they had joint industries. So now there is no question of them ever having bad relations because their economic interests are tied together, the Pakistan PM said in a video clip, which was widely circulated on social media.
It appears that the Pakistan Prime Minister was referring to the close Germany-France ties forged after the Second World War. However, the Prime Minister ended up mixing Japan with France.
Khans lack of knowledge of geography not only left the delegates present at his speech puzzled but also rocked up a storm on social media.
Please can someone find him a speech writer, or someone should give him lessons in geography. How much can one troll him? a Twitter user wrote.
Neither geography, nor history, nor world religions, are Imran Khans strong suit.
Imran Khan asks why no one blamed Hinduism for the terrorist attacks of the Tamil Tigers. But why would they? Everyone in Sri Lanka knew that Hinduism was neither necessary nor sufficient to explain the phenomenon of the Tamil Tigers, a nationalist, separatist, and secular movement, whose leaders were critical of central elements to Hinduism, and who were fighting not to further Hinduism, but only to carve out a homeland for ethnic Tamils, whatever their religion.
Imran Khans further claim that no one blames the Japanese religion for the kamikaze pilots deserves comment. Which Japanese religion does he mean? There are two Shinto, the religion native to Japan, and Buddhism, an import from China. I suspect Khan does not realize that these are different faiths. Shinto consists mainly of a series of rituals designed to keep the Japanese people connected to their distant past, a religion of public shrines devoted to the worship of a multitude of spirits, essences, or gods (kami), suited to various purposes such as war memorials and harvest festivals. Practitioners express their diverse beliefs through a standard language and practice, adopting a similar style in dress and ritual, dating from around the time of the Nara and Heian periods (8th12th centuries). Shinto was not an aggressive faith; there was no impulse to spread Shinto outside of Japan; it would have made no sense to do so, given that it was designed to keep the Japanese aware of their uniqueness.
But beginning in the 1920s, and increasingly in the 1930s and during the war years, Shinto was exploited by the Japanese militarists, who connected it with the cult of sacrifice for Emperor Hirohito as the God-Emperor. The Americans, recognizing the Japanese militarys misuse of Shinto for aggressive purposes, required the Japanese, as part of their surrender, to end state support for Shinto. This was not the traditional Shinto itself, which was pacific, but the distorted version constructed beginning in the 1920s to support Japanese militarism. That is quite different from Islam, which, unlike Shinto, needs no distorting to support aggression. Islam has always been a fighting faith, and the 109 Quranic verses commanding Muslims to fight and to kill and to smite above the neck and strike terror in the hearts of Infidels are surely enough to justify laying the blame for the attacks by Muslim terrorists of which there have been 35,000 since 9/11 on Islam itself.
When Imran Khan indignantly claims that no one blames the Japanese religion for the kamikaze pilots, he is wrong in two ways. First, the real Shinto religion, which primarily connected the Japanese people to their past through rituals and shrines, cannot be blamed for the distorted version promoted by the Japanese military, who used the cult of the God-Emperor to encourage the kamikaze pilots who sacrificed themselves by the thousands. Second, as noted above, Shinto, or more exactly the distortion of the faith in the service of Japanese militarism, was indeed blamed by the Americans for contributing to Japanese aggression. Imran Khans claim that no one blamed the Japanese religion for the kamikaze pilots is wrong; he has forgotten, or more likely never knew, the American-imposed Terms of Surrender, which included the requirement that Shinto would no longer be the state religion of Japan.
Imran Khan would do well to take the time to study the irrelevance of Hinduism to the secular, nationalist struggle of the Tamil Tigers, and to learn a bit more about both traditional Shinto and the version created by Japanese militarists. And finally, he might read the Quran more closely, so as to comprehend what it is that leads so many of us to believe that Islam does indeed have a great deal indeed, everything to do with Muslim terrorism.
It’s because their religious book lays it out for all to read. Kinda hard to deny what’s out there in the public domain.
If Islam is not terror, then why are we told that critiscing Islam creates Jihadi terrorists?
Really? Probably the dumbest question with the most obvious answer I've ever heard.
Jihad is an integral part of Islam.
Jihadists are following the example and instructions of their prophet.
Islam has been at war with the rest of humanity since 622 A.D.
Mad Mo made it so.
Paleeeease... that train left the station LOOOOONG ago!!
Allahu Akbar is just something some people said.
Has nothing to do with the death cult that is Islam.
EF the muzzies as I will NOT submit!
I would suggest this Muslim heretic learns aabout his religions fundamentals by reading the Koran, Hadiths and the life of Muhammad.
But he may know what Allah wants done and is using a little taqiyya to keep us Infidels confused. - Tom
He failed statistics.
He drank too much camel piss and his brain froze, yes certain people really drink that stuff. I thought San Gria was awful.
saracens are commanded by their pedophile prophet and moon god to subjugate the whole world under the sword of islam.
Prime Minister Khan deserves an acting award for saying that with a straight face. I'm guessing he practiced in front of a mirror until he could deliver that line without laughing.
Just a stupid guess here. Maybe because they do it consistently, continuously and often?
When was the last Tamil Tigers' bombing? The last Japanese kamikaze attack was sometime during the summer of 1945.
boy - does that look Khaddafi or what?
anyways, none of these mediots ever hear of’taqiyya’? Sheesh.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Practices For Western Ears Taqiyya
HOORAY Hugh!
How about “It’s because the Tamils and Japanese never quoted their scriptures as part of their attacks? Next stupid question?”
CIRCA 2014-—Muslim Christian Killer on US gravy train
(had Diamonds and 200 Credit Cards Hidden on Texas property)
Front Page Magazine | 6/20/2014 | Daniel Greenfield / FR FR Posted by Dqban22
This sort of thievery is surprisingly common among Muslims. The only reason this came to light is because the Muslim settler committed two murders in Texas, one of which he actually got away with.
The murder of Christian believer, Gelareh Bagherzadeh, was reported earlier. Gelareh Bagherzadeh was an Iranian Christian who came to this country only to be murdered by a Muslim because she encouraged his daughter to marry the man she loved.
The Texas Muslim claimed he was too disabled to work. But he wasn’t too disabled to kill.
BACKSTORY The Texan, a strict Muslim, was furious when his Jordanian-American daughter married a man without his permission. The Muslim, Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, blamed his daughters husband, relatives say. They say he also faulted one of her closest friends, 30-year-old Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a Christian convert who widely denounced Islam.
<><> First Christian-believer Bagherzadeh was killed, gunned down outside her parents Texas Galleria townhouse complex in January 2012.
<><> Eleven months later, Irsans son-in-law died after being shot multiple times in northwest Texas, in the Harris County apartment he shared with his wife.
The Texas Muslim thought he could get away with murdering because he had already gotten away with so many other things in Texas.
Federal authorities executed a search warrant at Irsans sprawling, 5-acre property 40 miles north of Houston, where they allegedly found cash, diamonds, pearls, weapons and phony passports hidden in attic rafters, in secret compartments throughout a cluster of trailers and outbuildings and even inside the buried drum of a clothes dryer at the Conroe, Texas property.
The Muslim Irsan, his wife Shmou Ali Alrawabdeh, and another daughter were subsequently arrested on a variety of federal fraud charges and are in federal custody.
A federal criminal complaint detailing the discoveries recounts a saga of nearly 20 years in which the 57-year-old naturalized citizen from Jordan, and his family, allegedly scammed taxpayer disability assistance funds claiming fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms, and affective disorders while secreting real estate, vehicles and cash in US and foreign bank accounts.
The complaint also alleges the Muslim Irsan:
<><> was receiving taxpayer funds for a son not living in the US,
<><> maintained several addresses on the property to facilitate various schemes, and,
<><> once disabled a safety feature on a saw then purposefully cut himself to receive a $75,000 settlement.
The Muslim Ali was certainly industrious and entrepreneurial, just not quite in the way amnesty advocates like to claim.
Also found on the property was a makeshift gun range, which witnesses said five or six Muslim families frequently visited to fire AK-47s and information about Irsans attempts to get a silencer. Nothing to do with Islam Im sure.
The rest of the scam ...... While there have been no allegations of terrorist ties regarding the Muslim familys alleged (a) foreign bank accounts, and, (b) suspicious wire transactions, Irsans strict adherence to radical Islam may have been a motive in the alleged murders.
Authorities are also re-examining a 1999 case in which Irsan was not indicted after claiming self-defense in the shooting of son-in-law Amjad Alidam, who was married to Nasemah Rachelle Irsan.
And thats not all. Prosecutors also revealed, in connection to the social security fraud and credit card charges against Irsan, that they found more than 200 credit cards with various names and multiple variations of his own name throughout the Irwin Keel home.
Arresting officers say they also found more than 40 similar credit cards in his wallet the morning he was arrested. His daughter also alleges, among multiple other schemes detailed in court documents, that Ali Irsan purposely disabled the safety device on a Ryobi rotary saw and purposely cut his own foot. Prosecutors say he used that injury to receive a $75,000 settlement from the manufacturer.
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