Will
the Real Islam Please Stand up
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Many Westerners cling to the myth that there is a good Islam and
a bad Islam, and it just depends on how we interpret the Koran and the Hadiths,
and not what these writings actually
teach. One friend asked me what I thought about a David Brooks column on this
subject. Here’s my response:
I have major problems with David Brooks’ analysis. He fails to
engage Islam and Koranic writings, the self-professed rationale for the deeds
of the terrorists. Instead, of engaging the real problem, Brooks launches into
psycho-speculation:
- A
beheading feels different because it reveals something about the minds of
the killers. The journalist Lance Morrow once wrote that “evil is often
happiest when it operates in the autonomy of the gratuitous.”
This represents the Western avoidance of dealing with Islam as
it is. Instead, this is what the Koran says:
- [Surah
47:4] “So when you meet (in fight…Jihad in Allah’s Cause) those who
disbelieve smite at their necks [behead] till when you have killed
and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them; i.e. take them
as captives). Thereafter (is the time for) either generosity (i.e. free
them without ransom) or ransom (according to what benefits Islam) until
the war lays down its burden. Thus [you are ordered by Allah to continue
Jihad against the disbelievers till they embrace Islam (i.e. are saved
from the punishment in the Hell-fire) or at least come under your
protection.] But if it had been Allah’s Will, He Himself could certainly
have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight) in order to test
you, some with others. But those who are killed in the way of Allah, He
will never let their deeds be lost…”
- [Surah9:5]
“Then kill the Mushrikun [Polytheists and Trinitarians] wherever you find
them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for then each and
every ambush. But if they repent and offer prayers perfectly and give
Zakat, then leave their way free …[9:29] Fight against those who do not
believe in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been
forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the
religion of truth (Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and
Christians) until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel
themselves subdued.
- [Surah
4.89] “They desire that you should disbelieve as they have
disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from
among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if
they turn back [from Islam], then seize them and kill them wherever you
find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.”
ISIS has taken their script right out of the holy writings of
Islam, and they claim as much! However, Brooks and other Western commentators will
not take them at face value. Instead,
Brooks prefers to dream about a “superior version of Islam”:
- But,
ultimately, the Islamists are a spiritual movement that will have to be
surmounted by a superior version of Islam.
Those
who defend Islam claim that the many violent Jihadic verses are just a matter
of interpretation. This is very idyllic but unrealistic. While everything must
be submitted to a process of interpretation, this doesn’t mean that any
interpretation is as accurate as the next. In fact, when we study Shakespeare
or any literature, our aim is to determine what the author meant, not what
interpretation we find more pleasing or more “superior.” However, it is quite
clear what Mohammad and his followers meant – bloody Jihad, and, sadly, ISIS,
al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Jihad, Boko Haram, Hamas, Hezbollah, and
al-Shabaab all got it right. That’s why they are getting all of the recruits.
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