What Extremist Islam Thrives On

by Bassam Tawil • March 12, 2015

The claim of the Muslim Brotherhood, that men should be ruled not by men but by Allah, is a fraud and a lie, because what mortal can claim the right to rule in Allah’s name: the various backward Sunni sheikhs such as ISIS’s “Caliph,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or the power-mad Shi’ite Ayatollahs in Iran?

Promoting such a fraud not only allows the extremist proselytizers of Islam to acquire both dominance and exclusivity among Muslims, as bearing the “true” message of Islam. Above all, it prevents their power and leadership from being challenged.

Getting nuclear arms is meant to enable the extremist Muslims to market Islam to the masses by force, and hide their failures in technological, societal and economic development.

The time has come to make it clear to the world that neither the West, nor the so-called Israeli “occupation,” nor imperialism nor colonialism is in any way responsible for the atrocities carried out by these fanatics. Those are only excuses feeding off the many mistakes made by the West.

What is responsible is social and religious backwardness, the work of the Islamist forces of reaction, and their inability to adjust to the progress made by the Western world during the past 1200 years.

Blaming the West seeks to prevent Muslims from using their intelligence to compare the failure of extremist Islam to anything else that is Islamic.

The Jordanian Sheikh Ahmed Adwan named as liars those who distort the Qur’an; that these liars did so only to fight the Jews, against the will of Allah. Those who refuse to recognize the fact that Allah granted the Blessed Land to the Jews are, in effect, attacking Allah and the Qur’an.

Despite being proud Palestinians, we here know that the Palestinian Authority must not, at present, be allowed military weapons; it must not be allowed to admit ISIS operatives; it must not be allowed to have an airport or a seaport. Such an event would turn not only Israel, but also Jordan, Egypt and the region, into an explosion of terrorism, death and destruction.

And until there is a more responsible Palestinian leadership that will not, a week later, be taken over by Islamist terrorists, it must not at present be allowed a Palestinian state.
Many Muslims rejoiced when Ahmed al-Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, came out against Islamic terrorism — only to be disappointed when he spoke of a Zionist-colonialist “conspiracy to divide and conquer Muslims.”
The unhappy state of Islam is the result of a rule by dictators dictated by cruelty, a slanted interpretation of Islam, laziness, corruption and internal decay — all racing towards the social, economic and scientific destruction of the Islamic nation.

Repeat:  The claim of the Muslim Brotherhood, that men should be ruled not by men but by Allah, is a fraud and a lie, because what mortal can claim the right to rule in Allah’s name — the various backward Sunni sheikhs such as ISIS’s “Caliph,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or the power-mad Shi’ite Ayatollahs in Iran?

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