Of course! What else could it possibly be? My latest in FrontPage:
Worried about the coronavirus? Don’t be. All you have to do to make sure you don’t contract the virus is blow yourself up in a crowd of infidels. Well, yes, but there’s always a catch, now, isn’t there?
This sage advice for a coronavirus cure comes from the thoughtful medical researchers of the Islamic State, aka ISIS. The latest edition of the jihad group’s al-Naba newsletter tells Muslims to wash their hands frequently and avoid traveling into Europe in order to avoid contracting the coronavirus, but somewhat contradicts itself in also noting that the best way to turn away “the torment and wrath” of Allah is to wage jihad.
The coronavirus, says ISIS, is a “plague” sent by Allah in order to give “painful torment” for non-believers. This is by no means a novel idea in Islam. The idea that Allah will punish the unrighteous in this world is in the Qur’an: “So if they repent, it is better for them; but if they turn away, Allah will punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the Hereafter. And there will not be for them on earth any protector or helper.” (Qur’an 9:74) The obverse of the idea that Allah will punish the unrepentant in both this world and the next is that if one is righteous, one will prosper in this world as well as in the next.
With that idea likely in mind, ISIS states that “the Muslims should not pity the disbelievers and apostates, but should use the current opportunities to continue working to free Muslim prisoners from the camps in which they face subjugation and disease.” In doing this, they need not worry about the coronavirus: “They should also remember that obedience to God — the most beloved form of which is jihad — turns away the torment and wrath of God.”
The most righteous deed of all, the one that is most effective in turning away Allah’s “torment and wrath,” is jihad. A hadith has a Muslim asking Muhammad: “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” Muhammad replied, “I do not find such a deed.” (Bukhari 4.52.44)
So while ISIS tells Muslims that they should take sensible precautions against the coronavirus, it also tells them that committing acts of violence against unbelievers will protect them from the virus anyway. Meanwhile, the jihad group asks Allah to make the coronavirus even more lethal than it is already, so as to “increase their torment,” as well as to “save the believers from all that.”
Also, the Qur’an teaches that Allah will place a Muslim’s good deeds on one scale and bad deeds on the other, and send them to Paradise or hell depending on which scale weighs more. A Muslim who is worried about his eternal destiny can decisively tip the scales in his favor by waging jihad, the deed that is greater than all others. He can seize the Qur’an’s promise of Paradise for those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111).
Of course, if one is killed, the points about avoiding the coronavirus are rendered moot, especially in light of the fact that a hadith attributed to Muhammad accords martyr status to those who die in a plague: “There are seven types of martyrdom in addition to being killed in Allah’s cause: one who dies of plague is a martyr; one who is drowned is a martyr; one who dies of pleurisy is a martyr; one who dies of an internal complaint is a martyr; one who is burnt to death is a martyr; who one is killed by a building falling on him is a martyr; and a woman who dies while pregnant is a martyr. (Sunan Abi Dawud 3111)
Another hadith adds that Muslims should not flee an epidemic: “Narrated Aisha: (the wife of the Prophet) I asked Allah’s Messenger about the plague. He told me that it was a Punishment sent by Allah on whom he wished, and Allah made it a source of mercy for the believers, for if one in the time of an epidemic plague stays in his country patiently hoping for Allah’s Reward and believing that nothing will befall him except what Allah has written for him, he will get the reward of a martyr.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 3474)
The only difference, then, between dying in the midst of one’s own jihad massacre and dying from the coronavirus is that in the former, some infidels die as well. For ISIS, that is a big difference, and one worth telling Muslims to wash their hands before they set out to murder infidels.
PFWAG says
and here I thought t was drinking camel pee…
gravenimage says
Jihad is more powerful than camel pee!
CogitoErgoSum says
The should put that on a billboard.
Phil Copson says
“Pee-had” ?
mortimer says
Don’t laugh. Some morons will get Covid-19 and then drink camel urine because Mohammed recommended it.
So sad.
CogitoErgoSum says
When I was a little boy I remember my mom telling me not to sail my toy boat in the puddle of water outside because I might get polio. A very smart man found a vaccine for that disease and almost no one thinks about it anymore. Some very smart men will find a medicine to make this disease fade away too … and it won’t involve killing people.
gravenimage says
So true, CogitoErgoSum.
And what are the chances that any of these smart people will be Muslim? Slim to none…
Westman says
What Muslims claim they invented – zero. And the chances that a Jew will find a cure – 100%
gravenimage says
Pretty likely, Westman.
“Israeli scientists: ‘In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine'”
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientists-in-three-weeks-we-will-have-coronavirus-vaccine-619101
If all goes well, this may be rolled out by Summer.
mortimer says
Jihad will ‘cure’ the disease, because the jihadists will be dead before the disease kills them.
mortimer says
With fools like Islam’s backward ‘leaders’, the death toll in the Muslim world will be in the millions.
Many Muslims who lose loved ones due to bad leadership will leave Islam.
According to Mohammed, no disease is ‘transitive’ (contagious).
CogitoErgoSum says
I believe the Antonine Plague and Cyprian Plague helped Christianity to spread through the Roman Empire and, of course, a plague that killed the first-born helped the Hebrews escape from Egypt. However, I can’t think of any plagues that helped spread Islam …. unless you consider Islam itself to be a plague.
mortimer says
Response to CES: actually, some scholars believe it was a plague among the Persians and Romans that allowed the Muslim armies to burst out of Arabia and seize Syria, Iraq, Egypt and North Africa from the Persians and Byzantine Romans. Imperial army commanders and troops had been decimated by the plague and were unable to defend the large territories against lightly-armed Arabs. The Arabs seized captured weapons and proceeded to conquer and expand for the next 100 years, while fighting among themselves as well.
Islam is not a ‘plague’ per se, but a mental self-hypnosis. Muslims can be deprogrammed by the use of ‘short, sharp shocks’ (the words of Fr. Zakaria Botros). The sun doesn’t set in a muddy spring. (K.18.86)
gravenimage says
ISIS Discovers the Cure for Coronavirus: Jihad
Worried about the coronavirus? Don’t be. All you have to do to make sure you don’t contract the virus is blow yourself up in a crowd of infidels.
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You know, sane people might consider this “cure” much worse than the disease. Not pious Muslims, though…
jewdog says
It’s the usual believe, don’t think, prescription from Dr. Jihad. There’s something blasphemous in the use of religion to stir up hatred and deny reason, an offense against nature. Such ungodly arrogance!
Adam says
ISIS ? Can’t be, they were utterly destroyed.
One group we still haven’t heard from is the Islamic scientists and pathogen experts.
Still no shortage of toilet paper in any Islamic country, weird right ?
I know for some I must, s/.
gravenimage says
Pious Muslims use an uneven number of stones. I don’t see them experiencing a shortage of stones any time soon…
No Muzzies Here says
It sounds like insanity, and indeed, it’s very hard to distinguish true insanity from the fervent practice of Islam, so take it seriously.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Of course, Muhamedans can comit suicied.
Not one peson will stop them.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Of course, Mohammedans can commit suicide.
Not one person will stop them. They’re cured, permanently.