No one outside of Iran and its proxy Shi’ite terror wings has had anything good to say about Suleimani — even China, Russia, EU hard lefties, and leaders of the Sunni Muslim world have been noticeably silent, or in the case of many Sunnis, have openly celebrated his removal from this world.
Even U.S. Democratic leaders have managed, perhaps reluctantly, to admit that Iran’s General over the Quds Force (the primary delivery vehicle of Iran’s foreign terrorism support and activity around the world) was a bad man, before they moved quickly on to skewer the President for taking unilateral action and leading America into World War III. Cory Booker acknowledged that he had American blood on his hands. Christ Murphy described him as an enemy of the U.S. who deserved to die. Elizabeth Warren labeled Suleimani a “murderer” before walking that back under pressure from “woke” lefties. Joe Biden was muted in his timid assessment: “No American will mourn Qassem Suleimani’s passing.” Even Adam Schiff weighed in with a tweet: “Suleimani was responsible for unthinkable violence and the world is better off without him.” While the Democratic leadership made clear they did not mourn his death, they pilloried Trump for his unilateral decision to end Suleimani’s life and career. 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have monochromatically declared in unison that they would never have given approval for this mission had they been in charge.
Republican leaders, on the other hand, have been uniformly aglow in response to the news, and generally supportive of the President’s bold decision. Secretary Pompeo spoke of “Suleimani the terrorist” and the need to end his activities; Lindsey Graham labeled him a “terrorist thug” who needed to be taken out; former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley remarked, “This man had evil in his veins.” Tom Cotton concluded that the Quds Commander “…got what he richly deserved.” Even Mitt Romney, no fan of the President, labeled Suleimani a “depraved terrorist.” Conservative commentators were equally unrestrained in their assessment. According to Ollie North, Suleimani was a “purveyor of terrorism.” And Sean Hannity was not to be outdone: Suleimani was “…one of the most ruthless, evil war criminals on earth. Evil personified; an evil monster.”
On the other hand, the response of Iran’s mullahs, military and media, as well as of other Shi’ite leaders in the region, has been to lionize Suleimani as a matchless, almost divine military figure. Iran’s Defense Minister, Gen. Amir Hatami, noted that America’s “criminal attack” had transformed “…the hero of the struggle against terrorism into a martyr.” The IRGC spokesman referred to Suleimani as “the proud commander of the armies of Islam.” When news of the operation reached Iran, announcement was made in a mosque in the midst of an imam’s sermon in Tehran, at which point numerous men began weeping. The imam declared, “A dear and great man has won martyrdom.” In a paroxysm of hyperbole, he went on to paint the brutal general as “an agent of unity” between Shi’ites and Sunnis, between Muslims and Christians, and between Muslims and Jews. (Many in the crowd looked up rather quizzically at these obvious falsehoods). On Iranian TV (IRINN), the official government statement declared, “He hastened to meet with his Creator, grateful for years of jihad that were full of pride and honor.” Another reporter affirmed that Suleimani had attained martyrdom, and was a “great and divine man.” But the most picturesque assessment of Suleimani and contemporaneous insult of Trump and his administration came from Hassan Nasrallah, head of the terrorist organization Hezbollah: “Qassem Suleimani’s shoe [in Arab culture, the shoe in such a context is an item of derision and ignominy] is worth the heads of Trump and all the American leaders.”
While this difference in assessment comes as no surprise, it highlights the irreconcilable hostility between Muslim and Western worldviews. Suleimani serves as the focal point for assessing the values of Shi’ite Islam over against Western principles. For the Shi’ite Muslim world, Suleimani’s life and work represent the highest achievements to which a Muslim could aspire. For over thirty years he engaged in what Islam’s prophet Muhammad called the work most prized by Allah: jihad. This Muhammad clearly defined as fighting the enemies of Allah so as to killed and be killed in his service. The Qur’an lays out with clarity the contract that Allah makes with his followers:
•”Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties; [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed. [It is] a true promise [binding] upon Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah ? So rejoice in your transaction which you have contracted. And it is that which is the great attainment.” (9:111)
[As an aside, this passage in the Qur’an makes a libelous claim against the Bible, asserting that this same “jihadi contract” is found in the Torah (Pentateuch) and Gospel (i.e., New Testament). Can one imagine Jesus saying, “Do you want to get to heaven? Then kill and be killed for the sake of My Father, and you will inherit virgins, wealth and pleasures beyond your dreams….”]
For the mullahs and their minions, Suleimani was Allah’s warrior par excellence, having maimed or killed multiple thousands of infidels as well as hypocrites (false Muslims, including all those Sunnis who oppose the Shi’ite world, especially the nation of Iran). His death is a great blow to the ongoing jihad operations of Iran’s theocracy, but it is also an opportunity to laud his martyrdom as a means to further indoctrinate impressionable Muslim youth with the vision that their own deaths in furthering the murder and mayhem of the Islamic Republic will result in their own immediate transport to the highest heaven where they can plunge for all eternity into the fullness of sensual pleasures they never even imagined possible on earth.
For them as for Suleimani, Hellfire missiles from America are heaven-sent, according to the imams. A moment of immolation for an eternity of bliss.
Why? Because for Allah there is nothing more important than the subjugation or destruction of all his enemies. Islam must cover the earth so that Allah’s supremacy will never again be challenged. Democracy, freedom of religion, equality of the sexes, free expression, eradication of slavery, and all other practices that oppose Shari’a are to be eliminated from the face of the earth. Those who serve Allah unabashedly in this bloody cause will earn his highest rewards. Hence, Suleimani is pictured by Shi’ite clergy as being feted in highest heaven by Allah. His place of honor rivals that of Muhammad, ‘Ali, Husain and the other celebrated Imams of Shi’ite Islam.
Western civilization rests on the recognition of “unalienable” human rights granted by the Creator who made humankind in “His image and likeness”, thereby endowing every person with inextinguishable dignity and honor recognized in rights and freedoms to be acknowledged by all. These of course include the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as well as what we find in the Bill of Rights of the U. S. Constitution or in the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Not surprisingly, the Muslim-majority nations of the world have rejected the UDHR as incompatible with Shari’a, and some forty-two years after that Universal Declaration came up with their own statement, known as the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, which begins with high-sounding rhetoric but ends by saying that any implied human rights and freedoms which conflict with Shari’a are null and void.
The blood, sweat and tears of many American and Allied soldiers have been shed in defense of human rights. Freedom from slavery to totalitarian regimes, freedom to worship according to one’s conscience, the right to voice one’s own convictions openly, recognition of equality of the races and the sexes, these are all fundamental rights for which Western societies have gone to the mat. Qassem Suleimani proved himself an enemy to these principles as he conducted Islam’s jihad against the non-Muslim world, principally the West.
Hence, the unbridgeable gulf between Western and Islamic thought, and between Western and Shi’ite assessments of Qassem Suleimani. What lesson must we learn from this ideological chasm? The answer is: There is no way to reconcile the principles of Western civilization with the jihadi dogmas of Islam. If we are to find an accommodation between Islam and the West, it will only happen either as the West surrenders its allegiance to universal human rights (may that never happen) or as Islam disavows any present and future commitment to jihad and its derivative practices (which will never happen as the teachings of jihad are woven into the very design of the Qur’an, which according to Islam can never be changed).
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Sam says
If it looks like Shi’ite, and smells like Shi’ite, then it must be Shite
Frank Anderson says
A good lesson on making your own decisions instead of depending on others to tell you what to think.
Chris D says
Well written Mateen. Thank You for explaining it in context like this. Helpful to understand.
James says
There is probably no way to defeat Sharia in the short term. Perhaps in the long term it could be defeated, but perhaps only by totally defeating and demoralizing the leaders. But that is unlikely to happen.
Frank Anderson says
James, given your conclusion, does that mean we should surrender or die? I have tried death for about 2 hours, and slavery for several years in a corrupt state. Both of those options stink.
gravenimage says
James, a number of American states have already passed laws against Shari’ah. The idea tht we can do nothing is mistaken.
Walter Sieruk says
The violent and murderous Iranian warlord chief Qassen Sueimani , did after he died ,have a very harsh reality check. This is because Suleimani ,to his shock and horror discovered the hard way that all the promises found in the Qu ‘ran, 44;54. 55:56. 78:31 of a paradise with many virgins ,for his use only, was nothing but a hoax, a lie and a false doctrine.
The Bible reveals that a murder will not inherit the kingdom of God Galatians 5:21. Therefore,instead of finding himself in a paradise, with without virgins he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of a awful, terrible place that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31
In addition, The deception of deceit may be seen, by all those who are willing to see, in the Islamic doctrine of a virgin filled paradise designed specify for the male Muslim jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, in what they so inappropriately call a “martyrdom operation.” Many a times a jihadist/Muslim is so very deluded the he actually put on his video recording that after he dies in the jihad as a “martyr” he will then in paradise have a “wedding with virgins.” This firm but blind unquestioning folly is the result of such a man believing in deception of a false doctrine. With Light of the Wisdom of Jesus a belief in a “wedding with virgins.” is the outcome of a person accepting as the “truth” an invalid and false. For Jesus taught “you are mistaken, not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30. A jihadist will after dies and such a murderous way will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb 11:7.
So to reiterate the important truth , which is that after Suleimani died he discovered that he had been deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth.
Iambob says
“…after Suleimani died he discovered that he had been deceived by false doctrine and lie…” That’s because he, and billions more, believed the lies of Allah (who admits he’s really Satan in the Quran) which was dictated by a fallen angel (demon) named ‘Gabriel.’
SKA says
Fallen angel who claimed to be the Archangel Ganbriel, another lie.
keith says
Walter,
Whilst I can appreciate the sentiment behind quoting passages from the bible and the koran, it achieves nothing when dealing with primitive savages.
This has stuff all to do with who’s religion is correct and everything to do with bringing a murderous belief system to a grinding halt.
It doesn’t matter which religion these murderers follow, they could be Christian, Jew, Mormon or whatever.
It is the mindset of the evil men who are pulling the strings that matters and this is what we must fight.
Religion will always divide humans, always has. What crosses those divides is the evil in men’s hearts and minds.
And if there really is a place called hell then I am certain it is full of individuals like Suleimani, Hitler, Stalin and the gate keepers will be eagerly awaiting Killery Clinton’s arrival.
Iambob says
Problem is, their religious beliefs derive from sources. And those sources dictate and determine their actions.
Therefore, the truth, concerning those sources, must be exposed for all to see so they may be confronted, dispelled, contradicted, etc. Even Barry understood that-which explains why he scrubbed any reference of the demonic ideology from military, law enforcement and intelligence manuals.
And America remains blind, deaf and dumb to the evils of Islam and cannot comprehend the motivations of Islamic terrorist nations, groups and ‘lone wolves.’
FYI says
Yes it is quite important to look at islamic sources to see where jihadist ideology comes from.I was quite happy living in a secular world before 9-11 and the subsequent Globalist-leftist sponsored islamic hijra into our countries.So i read the koran and the hadith.
islam has for example..
No Golden Rule
No concept of “Love thy Neighbor”
{Found in Judaism and Christianity Lev19:18 but missing in islam:you cannot love your neighbor in islam if he is defined as being an inferior infidel and “the worst of created beings”}
An Apartheid System:the koran classifies humanity in Two
1]muslims “The BEST community that hath been raised up”k3:110
2]non-muslims “the WORST of created beings” k98:6
The koran pits muslims against non-muslims.
A Doctrine of Hatred towards non-muslims{al walaa wal baraa}
An antisemitic and antichristian ideology{koran 9:30}
A totalitarian religious ideology with a subversive political component{usually aided by the Dhimmi left,lefty Jews,naive christians,the democrats etc}
We know that islam is promoted through dissembling tricks{taqqiya,taysin,muruna,kitman,daurura}by dawa teams and defended by islamic apologists who will either lie or ‘fiddle the Arabic’ to hide the errors they know exist in the koran.
Even if one is an atheist ,agnostic etc it is STILL imperative to know that islam is hostile to both Secularism and Jewish/Christian Religions{and ALL other non-muslim beliefs}and inimical to our hard-won freedoms in the West.
Walter Sieruk says
To Keith , thank you for taking the time to reply to my posting. As you put it by the term “the evil in men’s hearts and minds.” One thing that many people have overlooked is that human nature is not good but evil . A person only needs to study history of human actions through time and the many wicked things people do in this twenty – first century . Let’s not be naive about the basic wickedness of human nature.
Therefore the point being the evilness of the human soul and then coupled with a violent ,deadly religion, Islam, that instruct in followers in murderous violence, as seen in the Qu ‘ran, for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4 will only result men who are cruel vicious murdering bruits .
gravenimage says
Of course, the idea that those apt to murder in the name of their faith are just as likely to be Jewish or Christian as they are Muslim is *quite* mistaken.
GOLDMANN says
Amen !! True. He’s in hell awaiting the great judgement day. ?
Quazgaa says
Why all the fuss?
Iran may have failed to launch a satellite recently, but they have Soleimani on a firm orbit, circumnavigating the earth: beep, beep.
gravenimage says
Qassem Suleimani: Martyr in Heaven or Murderer in Hell?
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Just glad he isn’t around to murder any more people.
Duncan Thorburn says
Until Muslims find out their own truth about their Founder Muhammad, Muslims will think murdering gets them straight to Paradise. Until the West realise we have also an evil elite, that can be defeated by buying a real book on Muhammad, we are up against wrong labels. There is another view of Religion, a real view, not one twisted to murder our brothers.
GOLDMANN says
Mr Thornburn , who are you brothers?? ,You are NO BRETHREN with born again Christians ??UNLESS you are a born again Christian.
gravenimage says
I stand with all those who take a stance against Jihad.
Walter Sieruk says
Quassem Suleimani was not only and murderous warlord jihad chief but also a religiously deluded fool for accepting by blind unquestioning faith the religious story /doctrine from the Koran, the Qu ‘ran, Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31, of a sexual /lust-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for certain men Muslim men. That religious story /doctrine is nothing but unproven religious fable An enticing fable but nevertheless a fable. The Bible warns against listening to and believing in unproven, unfounded and far-fetched religious fables. No matter how enticing those religious story /doctrines may be . For the Bible warns against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4.
Furthermore, the Bible had predicted the coming of such false religious teachers, as those imams, who teaches other a story/doctrine of a lust-filled /lust-fill place for specific men. For the Bible reads “”For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but will after their own lust shall heap to themselves teachers ,having itching ears; and they shall turn their ears for the truth ,and shall be turned unto fables.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [K.J.V.]
So to reiterate as from the posting before, Suleimani is now trapped suffering in the fires of Hell, Luke 16 19-31. Galatians 5:21.
OLD GUY says
He got a one way ticket to HELL!