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'ISIS is doing nothing different than Muhammad and his successors'

Published: 05/11/2019 at 8:48 PM
By Hamed Abdel-Samad


Since 9/11, when Islamic terrorists k**led nearly 3,000 people, Muslim advocacy groups in the United States have had considerable success promoting the notion that Islam is a religion of peace.

Al-Qaida, ISIS and other such violent groups have nothing to do with Islam, goes the narrative.

But Hamed Abdel-Samad, an Egyptian-born political scientist and author who emigrated to Germany, insists otherwise, arguing one need only examine the sacred texts and the founder of Islam.

“ISIS is doing nothing different than Muhammad and his successors, at the time,” Abdel-Samad said in a talk show on the Austrian ServusTV channel. “They brought an ideology into the world, using weapons and the subjugation of peoples.

He said that as an Egyptian, he “would never have been born a Muslim if Muhammad’s successors had not behaved like ISIS does.”

“The same holds true for Morocco, Iran, and, in fact, anywhere Islam spread. The entire history of Islam is a history of conquest,” he said.

His comments were t***slated and reported by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

He addressed the contention that “Islamophobia” is the cause of terrorism.

“Many Muslims from every Muslim country joined ISIS,” he pointed out. “The first group came from Saudi Arabia. I don’t think Islamophobia exists there. The second group came from the middle class of Tunisia. There is not much Islamophobia there either.

“There is not a single Islamic country that is devoid of terrorism and of increasing radicalization,” he said. “Saying that the main and only reason (for terrorism), in your view, is that these young people face Islamophobia is not the way to solve the problem.”

Abdel-Samad said to solve the problem, teaching in mosques that encourages violent jihad must be curbed.

Many who fought for ISIS are returning to their home countries in Europe, he noted.

“And then we wake up and learn that one of them drove a truck into a crowd,” he said.

Such violent offenders, he suggested, should be put “before an international tribunal, and [society should] inflict harsh punishment on them.”

Abdel-Samad warned that violence is embedded deeply in Muslim culture, and it all comes from its founder.

“I am criticizing a man who has been dead for 1,400 years. He was married to 13 women. He waged 80 wars in the last eight years of his life. He took women as prisoners of war. Why should an enlightened person in the 21st century not criticize this man?” he said.


Hamed Abdel-Samad, WND
talk show on the Austrian ServusTV channel

Rose42

Contrast the evils of Mohammed with Christ. It boggles the mind that people would bend over backwards to apologize and make excuses for the former while hating the latter

Crayons Loc: St Jo, Texas

As well as being funded and supported by al'cia'da warmongerin bureaucrats = neolib marxists/neocon trotsky's

PeterS

The god of the bible wasn't exactly a pacifist. So why don't you non-violent Christians have guns and threaten everyone with them??? Oh, wait, my bad....

Seth

What part of "Why would an enlightened person of the 21st Century...?" didn't you understand?

I'll say it again, slowly...

While the western world was evolving socially over 14 centuries, the Islamic world continued living, to all intents and purposes, in the 7th Century until the early 1900s, when the U.S. and France showed them how to recover their oil.

Islam is still about 14 centuries behind us, and there is not much in the way of chronology in their beliefs -- to them it's like the violence of Mohammed, the Moors and the Crusades may as well have all occurred last month.

In Islam, we are facing a pre-Renaissance mindset that is 180° different from ours, a mindset still living in very violent, bloody times.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

John 3:19:

"And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil."

bahmer

Amen and Amen

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Its i***tic to say everyone with firearms are threatening everybody else....matter of fact, anyone who would say that is a liar.

But we know that you cannot tell the t***h.

debeda

EXCELLENT point, Rose

debeda

Rose specifically said Christ, not the God of the old testament. Turn the other cheek, remember.?

debeda

Well said, Seth

Seth

Thanks. Not like it will sink into the mind, though, of a regressive l*****t buffoon "progressive."

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

If every progressive and every media person would just actually sit down and read the Qur'an, they just might begin to understand the mindset that prevails within Islam, their values, their motivation and their goals.

I have been waiting since 9/11 for that to occur.

I do believe there is evidence that some members of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have actually read the Qur'an, but not so much on the 'progressive" side of the aisle.

debeda

promilitary

I say again, there is no such thing as a "peaceful" Muslim.