Muslims Face A Choice Between Islam Of Allah And Islam Of Mullahs
By
Tarek Fatah
July 15,
2020
Without
fail, hardly a week goes by when news from the Islamic World does not embarrass
ordinary Muslims worldwide.
Muslim men practise social distancing as a preventive measure against
the spread of COVID-19 as they take part in Friday prayers during the Islamic
holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Chana District in Songkla Province on May
8, 2020.TUWAEDANIYA MERINGING / AFP via Getty Images
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Either we
are each other’s throats, or are hunting to eliminate the ‘kuffar,’ be they
Christian, Hindu, Jew or the agnostic and atheist, unless of course, they
adhere to the guilt-ridden ‘Cancel Culture.’
And if at
all a Braveheart among the ‘infidels’ murmurs a protest, trust us to invoke
‘Islamophobia,’ the ever-present Sword of Damocles that hangs over the head of
whosoever dare protest. For we are unique — demanding both supremacy as well as
victimhood.
The late
Iranian scholar Ali Dashti concluded that Muslim follies have little to do with
Islam, but everything to do with early Islamic conflicts where “ambition for
the leadership replaced zeal for the religion as a pivotal motive.”
In the book
Twenty-Three Years that got him tortured by the Khomeini regime, Dashti wrote:
“The study of the history of Islam shows it to be a sequence of struggles for
power in which the contestants treated the religion (Islam) as the means, not
as an end. … The further the Prophet’s death receded in the past, the greater
became the tendency to use it (Islam) as an instrument of seizure of the
leadership and the rulership.”
It is just
such power-hungry men who have today cloaked themselves under the cover of
Islam to bring turmoil in a world already shaken up by a pandemic and an
economic catastrophe rivalling the 1930s depression.
The Hagia Sophia is an enormous architectural marvel in Istanbul, Turkey
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In
Istanbul, once known as Constantinople, the Islamist leader of Turkey, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, has by decree converted the majestic Hagia Sophia Cathedral
built in 573 CE, into a mosque.
The tragedy
of Hagia Sophia began in 1453 CE at a time when the Arab World and its
caliphate was about to fall in Baghdad and the vacuum was being filled by
Turkic warlords. Among them was Sultan Mehmet II (Muhammad) who invaded
Constantinople and erased all signs of Eastern Orthodox Christianity,
converting the jewel of the city, the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, into a mosque.
Elsewhere
during the medieval period, another Turkic plunderer, Babur the Mogul, invaded
India in 1528 and destroyed Hinduism’s most sacred place, the birthplace of
Lord Rama. To add insult to injury, he built the infamous Babri Mosque, an act
that became a source of conflict and recrimination for 500 years until in 2019
when the Indian Supreme Court, thanks to a Muslim archaeologist, determined the
Babri Mosque was built over the ‘Ram Janambhumi’ (where Lord Rama manifested
himself in human form).
Just as
Turkey was erasing the Christian character of the 1,000-year-old cathedral,
Pakistani mullahs and radical jihadis tore down the foundation of a Hindu
Temple in Islamabad, claiming there was no room for temples or churches in a
city named after Islam and a country created to spread Islam.
The fact
that some interpretations of Islam prohibit the destruction or occupation of
non-Muslim houses of worship must matter. Hatred of the Hindu, Christian and
Jew remains paramount in contemporary Islamic discourse. It should not.
Prophet
Muhammad himself is quoted as saying, “Whoever usurps the land of somebody
unjustly, his neck will be encircled with it down the seven earths (on the Day
of Resurrection).”
The
Australian Islamic cleric Mohammed Tawhidi quotes the 11th century Persian
Islamic philosopher Al Ghazali from his book, Revival of Religion’s Sciences
(IhyaUlumad-din): “In regard to the Mosque, if it is constructed in an
illegally usurped land, or with wood that is illegally usurped from another
mosque or property, it is impermissible to enter it, even to offer Friday
prayer.”
We Muslims
face a choice between ‘Allah’s Islam’ and ‘Mullah’s Islam.’ We owe it to Canada
and our children to make the choice Martin Luther made in the 15th century.
Original
Headline: Allah’s Islam vs. Mullah’s Islam
Source: The Toronto Sun
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