When it doesn’t work, will they question their assumptions? Of course not. They will question their own level of commitment to the Islamic faith. This never-ending cycle leads some Muslims to wage violent jihad as well. They see something wrong in their life and see that Muhammad praised jihad as the highest human endeavor, so they wage jihad to make up for their sins or escape some misfortune.
“Azan echoes in Mardan villages to ward off coronavirus,” by Syed Bukhar Shah, The News International, March 30, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
PESHAWAR: The muezzins in various villages in Mardan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recited Azan (call for prayer) from mosques at 10:30pm, which continued till 11pm in a bid to shake off the coronavirus.
The people also joined the muezzins and started reciting the Azan from rooftops to seek Almighty Allah’s help to get rid of the coronavirus that has forced cities across the globe to go into lockdown, bringing the routine life to a grinding halt. A local dispenser said he could not figure it out when he heard the call for prayer after the Isha prayer was offered. However, he also asked his son, who was learning the Holy Quran by heart, to recite the Azan from his house when his brother told him to do so. The elders recalled that reciting Azan had been the practice since ages to invoke Allah’s mercy in order to seek His protection from natural calamities and disasters. Some religious people argued that the coronavirus pandemic was a test from Allah and only He could avert it. Earlier, the prayer leaders and ordinary people in Peshawar had also recited Azan from mosques and rooftops to seek Allah’s mercy and forgiveness. The Ulema in the Friday sermons directed the faithful to follow precautionary measures to save themselves from coronavirus and also recite verses from the Holy Quran.
“Precautionary measures are necessary and these must be followed, but offering collective azan and prayers will avert these disastrous,” said one Zaman Khan….
William C. Kwasny says
I am reading Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, and I believe he makes some erroneous statements about the relationship of Islam to Christianity and Judaism, specifically on page 74 when he talks about the treaty of Hudabiya. I have a different understanding of this treaty from your book, The Truth about Muhammad, Chapter 8. Have you read Frankopan’s bbok? If so, do agree that he is mistaken in his interpretation of what this treaty meant? Thank you for reviewing this! Bill Kwasny Plymouth, Minnesota
gravenimage says
I haven’t read the book, William–but here’s some good information on the treaty of Hudaibiyya:
“Fitzgerald: Islam, The Treaty of Hudaibiyya, And The Two-Stage Solution”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/05/fitzgerald-islam-the-treaty-of-hudaibiyya-and-the-two-stage-solution
Wellington says
The totality of idiocy about the coronavirus coming out of the Islamic world, and as evidenced by numerous articles here at JW just over the last several days, only proves all the more that Islam does terrible things to the mind—that is if you’re foolish enough to accept or pay respect to its fallacious and farcical assumptions in the first place. This would of course include all adult non-Muslims who extend to Islam any merit (e.g., the current Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, fool that he is, and which I take extra personally like since I am a life-long Pennsylvanian only too conscious of the fact that this Commonwealth founded by William Penn could have NEVER been founded by a Muslim—but I digress).
Islam is a collective idiot in ideological form. That portion of mankind in any way defending Islam, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, is a collective idiot in human form. A lot of idiots out there. Tons.
gravenimage says
+1
Boromir's Horn says
I also heard if you let a camel pee in your left pocket, then twirl around 3 times saying halla rabka, you will be protected.
Hindu American says
Meanwhile, back at the insane asylum called pakistan where the inmates rule the roost, earlier today a pakistani court overturned the conviction of Omar Saeed Sheikh in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Sheikh will be released soon.
Boromir's Horn says
Yes, this monster was sentenced to death, now will be free to rape and murder in the name of Satan once again.
gravenimage says
Yes, I saw that appalling story. Just despicable.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Mosques sound Islamic call to prayer in order to ward off coronavirus
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Can’t make this sh*t up…
mortimer says
Ear-splitting screaming and wailing at 6 am, anybody? Anyone with the severe symptoms will want to die if they hear that while feeling horribly sick.
Even in many Muslim countries, people want to have 2 more hours of sleep.
mortimer says
Wise words from Robert Spencer: “When it doesn’t work, will they question their assumptions? Of course not.”
No, Muslims blame their victims for the very faults that Muslims caused themselves or that Islamic doctrines caused.
Since Islam is ‘perfect’, the kafirs must be blamed whenever the practice of Islam leads to failure, danger or catastrophe.
Mohammed believed that no illness was “TRANSITIVE” or contagious. This dangerous idea is clearly, scientifically wrong.
Mohammed’s claim about the non-communicability of diseases proves that Islam is false … and dangerously so.
Rishi Sarin says
Islamic—Fundamentalism is a VIRUS, much deadlier than all the Viruses we have ever known, ——— and it’s not just a few countries, but the Whole-World has already been infected with it.
The Whole World is now Suffering from a New Form of Self-Destructive AIDS caused by this Virus & It’s Called —— “The ACQUIRED ISLAMIC DESTRUCTIVE SYNDROME”—— which aims to weaken the nations and people by Eating Away their vital resources and causing them emotional unrest and mental agony. —— If left to itself,—— the disease will spread to many other nations and gradually infect the whole planet, destorying all life and humanity…
Patrick B. Ludwig says
They are calling Covid-19 – currently their favourite jihadi – to prayer.
And when they are fartibg into each other’s faces during sajda (prostration) they are praising allah for the crisis.
ELI says
“When it doesn’t work, will they question their assumptions? Of course not. They will question their own level of commitment to the Islamic faith. This never-ending cycle leads some Muslims to wage violent jihad as well. ”
Everything they do is jihad it seems. I think if a Muslim says bismillah before eating his food, it would end up on jihadwatch as somehow another form of jihad
Here we have Muslims and Jews praying together, much better image
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/coronavirus-muslim-jewish-prayer-israel-paramedics-a9429691.html
gravenimage says
Well, this is lovely. One can only hope that Abu Jama is not praying for the destruction of the Jews, which is a mainstream part of Islamic worship. He sounds like a decent fellow–but would be condemned by many of his more orthodox coreligionists for daring to work with a Jew and treating Jewish patients.
Dude says
It’s not difficult to accept that these people believe that the Plague can be fended off with faith.
They still believe the astronomical picture of the world given to them by God and His prophet in the scripture as it reveals that the earth is flat (held in place by mountains just as a carpet is held in place by tacks), and that the sun sinks into a puddle of mirky water at night, then rises out of that mirky puddle the next morning.
Surely the pictures from orbiting satellites are American plots fashioned to undermine the absolute authority of the scriptures.
Corona akhbar!
OLD GUY says
I think it is a great time for all men and women to come to prayer. The problem in the islamic world is their call to prayer is all too often to cause harm to mankind, rather than to pray for mankind. The religion of hate will continue to hate forever that is their doctrines and source of power for the Imams and Clerics. Yes islam is a cult type system with a dictatorship style of rule for the countries that it exists in.
don vito says
the virus knows no arabic, and like the infamous prophet, can neither read or write it.
ELI says
Meanwhile, here is similar news:
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/03/30/televangelist-kenneth-copeland-destroying-coronavirus-with-a-christian-magic-spell-very-funny-unutterably-grim/
Let me guess, it’s not the same when Christians do it?
gravenimage says
There is nothing wrong with praying for the end of this pandemic. Note that Kenneth Copeland is *not* continuing to hold services. On his Facebook site, he says, “Churches are not being closed. Buildings are being closed. You are the Church! You are to remain open”.
But Muslim clerics in Pakistan are also refusing to close Mosques:
“Pakistan: Muslim clerics say ‘it isn’t possible to close mosques under any circumstances in an Islamic country’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/04/pakistan-muslim-clerics-say-it-isnt-possible-to-close-mosques-under-any-circumstances-in-an-islamic-country
One need not have any faith in religion of any sort to realize that these things are quite different.
Note that since ELI showed up here a few weeks ago, he has never once said anything critical of Jihad terror, even when urged to. His only purpose here is false Tu Quoque–that the ‘filthy Infidels’ are supposed to be as bad as Muslims, so roll over, Kuffar.
ELI says
Except this is not what Robert Spencer is referring to, he said: “When it doesn’t work, will they question their assumptions? Of course not. They will question their own level of commitment to the Islamic faith.”
This is what he has a problem with, the praying itself. He of course has no problem when Chrisitans do it and neither do you. This post is for the sole purpose of Islam bashing for its own sake and nothing to do with jihad although Mr. Spencer does his best. Why don;t you address that directly instead of calling me a supporter of terrorism? that’s all you have been doing