MUSLIM CLERIC HATE

A false prophecy is driving devout Muslims into intolerance, violence, and death.

Qur'an 24:55 Allah has promised to those of you who believe and do good that He will surely make them rulers in the earth as He made those before them rulers, and that He will surely establish for them their religion, which He has chosen for them, and that He will surely give them security in exchange after their fear. They will serve Me, not associating anything with Me. And whoever is ungrateful after this, they are the transgressors.

Footnote 1763: This verse not only prophesies the establishment of the kingdom of Islam, but also its permanence, so that successors will be raised to the Holy Prophet (MO-HAM-MAD) and the Muslims made a ruling nation on earth. (FALSE PROPHECY)

Deport the clerics of hate

By Trudy Harris and Cameron Stewart 7-20-2005

From: The Australian

Sheik Hilaly ... radical clerics are 'a disease like AIDS', he says.

THE country's highest-profile Islamic leader has called for the deportation of clerics who preach violence, as part of a push to rid Australia of the "disease" of fundamentalism.

Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly compared the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in Australia to AIDS, and said he and other moderate clerics across the country must take firm steps to win the hearts and minds of impressionable young Muslims.

"They are a disease like AIDS and you can't cure them with Panadol," Sheik Hilaly said of radical clerics.

In some of the strongest public comments yet by a senior Islamic figure in Australia, Sheik Hilaly also told The Australian the sale of Islamic literature preaching hatred or violence should be banned.

But the call was flatly rejected yesterday by Australia's most senior fundamentalist Islamic cleric, Sheik Mohammed Omran.

"Australia is a free country and should allow all books to be sold here," Sheik Omran said. He claimed there were no Islamic clerics in Australia guilty of inciting hatred.

"We do not have clerics who incite hatred here so there is no point raising the issue of deporting clerics who incite hatred because such clerics do not exist in Australia."

Sheik Hilaly said some young Muslims were also drawn to the firebrand preachings of a handful of local and visiting overseas clerics who had little religious education themselves.

"A small number of Muslims do have a disease of the mind," Sheik Hilaly told The Australian at his office attached to Sydney's largest mosque, in the south-western suburb of Lakemba.

"The ASIO, the other authorities and the journalists know who they are. They don't pray here (at Lakemba Mosque), they don't respect us, they have in the past called us disbelievers."

While he doubted Australia would suffer a suicide bombing like London, he was concerned the minds of some young Australian Muslims were being manipulated, a dangerous development that could eventually lead to hatred and violence.

"It's like they are remote-controlled. They could be steered down the wrong direction," he said, stressing that the numbers of such Muslims in Australia was small.

He said he sometimes went to the homes of young Muslims developing fundamentalist ideals, to try to turn them around. Their thinking had created tension and conflict with their families.

"Young people will get any books from people who are not renowned scholars and teach this fundamentalist way of thinking," he said.

"They (the fundamentalist clerics) try to motivate them with aggressive speak rather than teach them about their religion. And boys love conflict."

Sheik Hilaly said Muslim community groups should work together to develop strategies to educate and inform young people about their religion.

His call for extreme books to be banned was welcomed yesterday by the Muslim community umbrella body, provided it extended to all hate literature, not just Islamic texts.

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils president Ameer Ali said any ban should strike a balance between censorship and freedom of expression.

The call coincides with intense debate in Britain about the role of Muslim leaders in preventing terrorism such as the bombings that killed 56 people in London.

The British Government is also considering tougher terrorism laws allowing deportation of clerics considered too radical.

Sheik Hilaly said although he did not think Australian clerics were currently preaching violence or hatred, a law should also be introduced here as a precaution.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) this week began an investigation into whether literature sold at a bookstore in Lakemba breached laws against inciting a terrorist act.

AFP and New South Wales counter-terrorism officers met yesterday to discuss just who could be prosecuted over the sale of the books.

Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said he was prepared to review these laws if the investigation showed insufficient legal safeguards.

Sheik Hilaly said books justifying attacks, such as the London bombings, or ones preaching hatred of Australians and their way of life should be banned.

"It's like someone selling poison, or like selling the poisoned Mars bars, they should be taken off the shelves. It's a free country, but it's not free to poison people," he said.

- Additional reporting by Patrick Walters

Call to help find preachers of hate

LONDON'S police chief called on Muslims to help identify "preachers of hate" during a visit to a Forest Gate mosque.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair told worshippers at Minhaj-ul-Quran Mosque in Romford Road on Friday that their co-operation was essential in the fight against terrorism.

He said: "We have to seize the moment in which the Muslim communities of Britain, helped by everyone of good will, change from a current position of shock and disbelief to an active engagement in counter-terrorism."

Sir Ian cited previous problems faced by police investigating Jamaican gangsters to illustrate the difference community cooperation can make.

"The wall of silence has gone. The African Caribbean community is saying: This is our problem, we're going to help you'.

"And I'm afraid this is your problem and I hope you are going to help us," he said.

"We have to find ways in which we identify young men, and sometimes women, who are vulnerable to extremism and that is a great challenge.

"We have to look at the possibility, which I have been talking about with the leaders of the mosque here, of setting up some kind of third party reporting process inside the Muslim community so that you feel confident to report what is going on because that is absolutely vital."

Sir Ian said he was delighted to hear the condemnation of the attacks on London by the Muslim communities in Newham.

He added: "I am absolutely clear that all the Muslim communities of Britain just want to do what everyone else wants to do, which is bring up their children in peace and have a good life."

The commissioner highlighted the fact that, so far, there were only 300 Muslims in the Met police, while one million Londoners followed the Islamic faith. He encouraged more men and women to join the force.

He also met Sikh faith leaders at the Gurdwara Dasmesh Darbar temple in Rosebery Avenue, Manor Park.

Sir Ian's plea for unity was supported by Newham Mayor Sir Robin Wales who said: "We all share the outrage at the terrorist attacks. Newham is a community with a strong cultural diversity and we respect the life and dignity of all peoples.

"We must stand united against anyone who would seek to exact revenge or reprisal against innocent people. Newham Council wants all members of our community to be reassured that harassment of any form will not be tolerated."

9:55am Saturday 23rd July 2005

By Jonathan Bunn

Radical imams threatened with treason charges

By Duncan Gardham in London
August 9, 2005

Islamic extremists who incite violence or praise suicide attacks in Britain could face charges of treason.

The head of the anti-terrorism department at the Crown Prosecution Service, responsible for all public prosecutions, will meet senior officers at Scotland Yard this week to discuss what charges could be brought against preachers whose endorsement of suicide attacks could incite further acts of terrorism.

The British Government is focusing on three Islamic radicals living in Britain - Omar Bakri Mohammed, Abu Izzadeen and Abu Uzair. Mr Bakri has been of particular concern after urging Muslims not to give information to the police and apparently calling the July 7 suicide bombers "the fantastic four".

The move is an attempt to clamp down on extremists even before new legislation is drawn up. The charges the Crown Prosecution Service will consider include the common law offences of treason, incitement to treason, solicitation of murder and incitement to withhold information known to be of use to police. These offences include attacks made against British interests abroad as well as at home.

The charges can be brought against foreign nationals resident in Britain as well as British citizens. A proposed offence of condoning or glorifying terrorism has not yet come into effect.

Aware of possible prosecution, radical Islamic groups are usually careful about what they print or say in public. But in recent days several have made clear their support for suicide attackers. Mr Bakri, the spiritual leader of al-Muhajiroun ("The Emigrants"), said last week he would not tell police if he knew that Muslims were planning a bomb attack on a train in Britain and he said he supported Muslims who attacked British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

British-born Abu Izzadeen, of al-Ghurabaa ("The Strangers"), said in an interview the July 7 bombers were pursuing "mujahideen activity" which would make people "wake up and smell the coffee".

Abu Uzair, a former member of al-Muhajiroun who is now believed to be involved with its successor organisation, the Saviour Sect, said on the BBC that after the July 7 attacks "the banner has been raised for jihad inside the UK".

However, one radical Muslim group, which the Prime Minister intends to ban, is not involved in violence or terrorism, according to an unpublished government report prepared for Tony Blair.

Two of Labour's four Muslim MPs on Sunday said they opposed the banning of Hizb ut-Tahrir, as proposed by Mr Blair. Last year a paper, called Young Muslims and Extremism, prepared for Mr Blair, found that "most of the structured organisations, eg Hizb ut-Tahrir, will not directly advocate violence".

A recent poll found that mosques across Britain were failing to confront extremism in young people and many did not believe it was their responsibility to do so.

The survey of 100 mosques by a Muslim lobby group showed that no steps had been taken to challenge radical preaching to Muslim youths, and that none were planned.

Muslim leaders condemn Pope's speech, want apology
Fri Sep 15, 2006

CAIRO (Reuters) - Muslim leaders on Thursday condemned Pope Benedict over comments he made about Islam on a visit to Germany and demanded he apologise.

The head of the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood called on Islamic countries to threaten to break off relations with the Vatican unless the pontiff withdrew his remarks.

A top religious figure in Turkey suggested the pope should reconsider a trip he is planning to Turkey later this year.

The Vatican issued a statement to say the Pope had never meant to offend Islam.

In his speech at the University of Regensburg on Tuesday, Benedict quoted criticism of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who wrote that everything Mohammad brought was evil and inhuman, "such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached".

Benedict, who used the terms "jihad" and "holy war", repeatedly quoted Manuel's argument that spreading the faith through violence is unreasonable, adding: "Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul."

The head of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Mahdi Akef, whose organisation is one of the oldest, largest and most influential in the Arab world, said the pope "aroused the anger of the whole Islamic world and strengthened the argument of those who say that the West is hostile to everything Islamic".

"The general guide (Akef) expressed his surprise that such comments should come from someone who sits at the summit of the Catholic Church and who has an influence over public opinion in the West," said a statement on the Muslim Brotherhood's official Web site, www.ikhwanonline.com.

The Vatican press office said in a statement the pope had not intended to carry out an in-depth study of jihad (holy war) and Muslim thinking about it, "even less to offend the sensitivity of the Muslim faithful".

"It is clear that the Holy Father's intention is to cultivate a position of respect and dialogue towards other religions and cultures, and that clearly includes Islam," the statement by chief Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said.

He said a careful reading of the Pope's lecture would show that "what really matters to the Holy Father is a clear and radical rejection of religious motives for violence".

In Turkey, the Anatolian state news agency quoted Ali Bardakoglu, the head of Ankara's Directorate General for Religious Affairs, as describing the Pope's words as "extremely regrettable".

"I do not see any use in somebody visiting the Islamic world who thinks in this way about the holy prophet of Islam. He should first rid himself of feelings of hate," NTV's Web site quoted Bardakoglu as saying.

Bardakoglu, whose directorate controls all imams in Turkey and sends prayer leaders to Turkish communities abroad, recalled atrocities committed by Roman Catholic Crusaders during the Middle Ages in the name of their faith against Orthodox Christians and Jews as well as Muslims.

Benedict is due to visit Turkey, an avowedly secular state whose population is predominantly Muslim, in November at the invitation of President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.

In Qatar, prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi rejected the Pope's comments and said Islam was a religion of peace and reason.

"Muslims have the right to be angry and hurt by these comments from the highest cleric in Christianity," Qaradawi told Al Jazeera television. "We ask the pope to apologise to the Muslim nation for insulting its religion, its Prophet and its beliefs."

Silence of the imams

April 8, 2006

By Craig R. Smith

The news again this week from Iraq is another 70-plus innocent Muslims dead at the hand of three fellow Muslims. These murderers, dressed as women, walked into the Baratha mosque in Northern Baghdad and blew themselves up.

Some would say nothing could be more terrifying, yet the silence from the imams and religious leaders in the Muslim community is far more terrifying to me.

A few months ago, when a handful of European cartoonists displayed their creativity in a couple of light-hearted cartoons depicting Muhammad, the imams went nuts. Their outrage sparked the movement of hundreds of thousands of Muslims to the streets of major cities around the world demanding the execution of the cartoonists and anyone else who would even think to lampoon their sacred religious icon.

Muslims worldwide demanded that someone be brought to "justice" over this blasphemous action. If not, the violence would escalate and continue until this "horrific" event was vindicated.

Nobody killed anyone. Nobody was injured. No property was destroyed. Yet, in the eyes of Islam, blood had to run in the streets to atone for such a sin against Allah.

On Friday, 70-plus people lost their lives, 165-plus people were injured and many lost body parts. The mosque sustained unthinkable damage. But I have yet to hear one major imam or Muslim cleric condemn the act, no less rally the faithful to the streets in protest. The best I could find was the following in the Cincinnati Enquirer:

"What happened was wrong, hateful and evil," said Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk.

"A deplorable act toward everyone," said Rabbi Abie I. Ingber.

"The Muslim community is deeply concerned about this event and we are hoping that it can be quickly determined who committed the crime," said Dr. Inayat Malik, president of the Islamic Educational Council.

Do you see what I see or more importantly what I don't see?

The Catholic archbishop calls it what it is – "wrong, hateful and evil."

The Jewish rabbi says – "a deplorable act."

The Muslim leader is only "deeply concerned"?

What is wrong with this picture? Help me, Muslim community. I need to know why the outrage over cartoons, but utter silence in response to the wholesale slaughter of fellow Muslims.

Most major legitimate religions generally articulate the position on any major issue by having leadership front and center with an explanation as to the why of what happened. If it is right they applaud it, and if it is wrong they denounce it. Given the lack of explanation from Muslim leadership, can one deduce that Islam does not qualify as a legitimate religion?

I know I'm going to be attacked, but I need the imams to help me understand where the "religion of peace" stands on all these very un-peaceful acts. I want to know what their holy book says about such violence.

Can you imagine the demand for answers the worldwide press would require if Catholics killed 75 fellow, innocent Catholics? In fact, the Vatican was under a daily barrage of criticism over events in Northern Ireland.

I know what would happen if three members of an Assembly of God church murdered 70 innocent Baptists. It would be a nonstop drone of accusations such as, "Is that how Christians treat each other?" and "Isn't Christianity a peaceful religion?"

But the press just lets it slide when Muslims are the killers, never demanding that someone explain such atrocities. Instead they opt to join Ward Churchill, Michael Isikoff and Chris Matthews in blaming everything wrong in the world on George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld.

If we are ever going to see an end to the Muslim-on-Muslim violence that is ever before our eyes, the world must demand answers from the leaders in the Muslim community. The leaders must wholeheartedly and unconditionally condemn and denounce such acts. Anything short is an approval.

If Islamic leadership supports what we saw in Baghdad this week, then we need to call this "religion of peace" what it truly is. I prefer not to say what I believe that is, for in doing so, I may well become another one of their victims. The old saying, "If you can't beat them, join them," would be a poor choice in the world of Islam – doing so just might cost you your life.

Will someone step up and demand answers and action? Or will the turned backs of the imams cause more innocent Muslims to die?

Arabic is the language of all Muslim terrorists.