Shaker Elsayed is actually making an extended pitch for the idea that the coronavirus is Allah’s punishment for not obeying the Sharia, and so can only be cured by Sharia obedience. This is akin to another claim that other Islamic apologists in the West have been making recently: Islam long ago prescribed masks and forbade touching, you see, so it was way out front on the hygiene necessary to prevent this plague. The hope is that the coronavirus crisis will lead Westerners to convert. And in some circles, it likely will. Those who convert will not become aware until later that the requirements to wage jihad against unbelievers are part of Sharia as much as the washing rules.
“Virginia Imam Shaker Elsayed: COVID-19 Is a Divine Wake-Up Call – a Punishment for Usury, Abortion, and Homosexuality,” MEMRI, April 3, 2020:
Virginia Imam Shaker Elsayed said in a video that was uploaded to the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center’s YouTube channel on April 3, 2020 that Allah tests humanity every year with the flu, but that this year He has sent the coronavirus in order to get humanity’s attention. Imam Elsayed gave a Quranic example in which Allah punished the Jews for violating the prohibitions against usury and for wrongly “devouring” people’s money, and in which Allah says He has prepared “severe and painful torment” for the Jews guilty of these crimes. Imam Elsayed said that today, usury is being practiced by every nation in the world, and not only by the Jews, and he criticized humanity for legalizing things that Allah has prohibited such as abortion, homosexuality, and usury. In addition, he said that the capitalist systems enslaves everybody and that the current situation is a “wake-up call” from Allah. The Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, where Imam Elsayed preaches, is in Fairfax, VA and is known for being linked to former Al-Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, who had been the imam of the Center when 9/11 took place. Dar Al-Hijrah is also linked to some of the 9/11 terrorists, to Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, and to other known Jihadis. For more about Imam Shaker Elsayed, see MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 8234 and MEMRI TV Clips No. 7426, No. 6378, No. 6057, No. 6043,and No. 5989.
Shaker Elsayed: “Every year, Allah tests humanity with the flu, but this doesn’t seem to be getting the message [across] and the attention, so this year, He is sending something like the flu, even with less damage than the flu, but it has created more fear than the flu ever has.
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“[Allah] tells us in the Al-Nisa chapter in the Quran… [that] because of the injustices of the people of the Jewish community, [He] made certain good things prohibited for them, because they turned away from the path of Allah.
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“And, [the Jews] were taking interest, which is usury. They had [previously] been prohibited from taking interest, usury, and interest money from people.
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“[They were also punished] for devouring people’s money by wrong pretense.
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“[The Quran says:] ‘And We have prepared for those disobedient ones among them severe and painful torment.’
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“These are some of the violations that are still going on, not only by the former minor community in the Jewish people – but now it is practiced by almost every nation and every society, with no exceptions.
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“Instead of correcting [things], we are legalizing what [Allah] prohibited. Which means we are protecting disobedience. We are legalizing abortion – we are legalizing abortion on demand, not abortion with legitimate reasons. We are legalizing homosexuality. We are legalizing usury. These are all abominations [in the eyes] of Allah.
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“In the capitalist system, we are enslaving everybody. Everybody is now subject to the whims of the capitalists. Those who have it are controlling those who do not have it. Whether it is militarization, insurances, insurance companies, the healthcare system is crumbling as we see it…
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“It is a wake-up call. It is Allah’s reminder from Heaven to the whole Earth.”
Wellington says
What rot, what nonsense.
Westman says
Is it ever rot. 10 million deaths from cancer and 9 million from heart disease, every year, and Covid-19 is Allah’s feeble punishment, with no exception for Muslims?
Only a mind, screwed up by believing in the simultaneous illogical contradictions that is Islam, could believe that “Allah” has anything to do with Covid-19. It seems that the purveyors of Islam are absolutely desperate to attach to anything that might indicate “Allah” exists and that Islam makes a difference for Muslims, even if that effort is absurdly ridiculous.
Wellington says
Well said, Westman.
shosh says
If allah is punishing non muslim for not bending over to mohamed THEN WHY ARE SO MANY MUSLIM DYING ALL OVER THE WORLD ESPECIALLY IN I R A N ?
gravenimage says
Because as every Sunni Muslim knows, the Shia are “heretics”–this would be the Muslim “logic”, in any case.
mortimer says
Yes, Allah is punishing the world because Shi’ites lick and kiss the shrines of their saints and mix the dust off of tombs into their drinks. Yeah … that’s it.
The branch of Imam Mohamed Bin Saud University in Fairfax, Virginia instructs its students that Shia Islam is a Jewish conspiracy.
Shi’ites are ‘Rafidha’ Rejectionists.
mgoldberg says
Apparently the enslaving, raping of non muslim young girls, women brings no cries from Allah; apparently taking ‘jizya’, in fact demanding the free monies unearned from non muslims, by muslims, brings no cries from Allah, apparently, the homiciding of ‘others’ on the streets of the ‘others’ nations, and even muslims own, bring no cry from Allah.
Oh… wait.
I’m incorrect.
It then brings cries for …. more.
Projecting upon ‘others’ is part and parcel of Islam
examining this, for what it is, and what it reveals, should become our new norm.
gravenimage says
Spot on, mgoldberg.
mortimer says
Well expressed by mgoldberg. PROJECTION by Muslims is the act or technique of defending Islam against the accusation of immature, neurotic or anti-social impulses by denying their existence in Islam, while attributing them to ‘others’. When projection is inadequate, they indulge in GASLIGHTING by claiming that anyone who expresses a disagreement with Islam is mentally ill or bigoted.
Islam is a system of bigotry which uses Allah to justify the use of violence against the ‘other’.
Wellington says
With you again, mortimer.
Peter35 says
Doesn’t even know what’s happening; absolutely par for the course for islamic halfwits.
If ‘allah’ was/is behind the virus, why is he/she/it knocking the crap out of moslems?
Brainless, semi-literate islamic imbecile.
Templer says
We I must become pedophiles and goat sex that the will off allha we must all become like pedo mow hat a load off Bs the Koran is false Islam is BS and the Koran conpletly fase end game for islam ☪️
FYI says
why do so many islamic ‘holy’ men look like they sleep with goats?
male goats.
James Lincoln says
Because many of them do, FYI.
And they all smell like a herd of goats on a rainy day…
tim gallagher says
Another intellectual giant from those Muslim “scholars”. I’m convinced that, if you are a really dumb Muslim, who would be unemployable in any normal type of job, you are channelled off into becoming one of these Muslim “scholars” and then you spend the rest of your useless life finding twisted ways to blame the Jewish people for everything that goes wrong in the world and making idiotic pronouncements. I mean, all you have to do is grow an Islamic beard and stick one of those little caps on your head, which even the dumbest person can do. Seriously, these people are beyond dumb. The Scientific Revolution and the progress it made in understanding how the world works, never existed at all for these fuckwits. Another thing that strikes me is that it is acknowledged that this virus came out of China, so do halfwits like these Muslim “scholars” think that the Chinese are Jewish people? I keep seeing reports where they blame the Jews for the virus.
James Lincoln says
tim, you hit a homerun with that post!
I couldn’t stop laughing…
As they say, sometimes you laugh because it’s funny, sometimes you laugh because it’s true.
Wellington says
Fine and humorous post, tim gallagher.
In addition to Islam being evil, it is also stupid. No wonder it attracts the detritus of the human race.
ploome says
Why are they not deported immediately?
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comments, James, Wellington and ploome. I have been reading all these weird and wonderful Muslim “scholars'” theories about the virus and thinking, how staggeringly dumb are these characters. There was the one a while back who thought women showing their ankles caused the virus, etc. And there are obviously intelligent Muslims (medical doctors,etc) so I began to think that, if a family has an unbelievably dumb son, with no prospects of employment, they must say, send him off to be a Muslim “scholar”. I don’t know if any other commenters here at Jihad Watch thought like me, hang on, the virus came out of China, do these imbeciles think the Chinese are Jewish? But, maybe, the idea of blaming the Jews for everything stems from the fact that the Jews told Muhammad to bugger off and they weren’t interested in joining his shiny new bullshit religion, Islam. Maybe the idea is that because of that action (maybe like Eve eating the apple and getting man thrown out of the garden of Eden), all the evils of the world began and, therefore, the Jews are to blame, even if an Australian or a Chinese person releases a virus onto mankind. You know, ultimately, the Jews are to blame because they were wise enough to tell Muhammad to get lost and they refused to join Islam. Anyway, I’m glad you had a laugh, James. That’s something we need in this weird time with all this shutdown of normal life caused by the virus. There’s that old saying about how you may be stupid, but, if you are, then you shouldn’t open your mouth and show everyone how stupid you are. These Muslim “scholars” should heed that advice and shut the fuck up, instead of showing how dumb they are with their loony theories.
gravenimage says
+1
ploome says
So why doesn’t his behavior and statements make him ineligible for a green card and citizenship.
Is he the kind of immigrants we need to make America a better place?
Claudius says
So Islam rejects interest – which is why they have no banks and can’t control any of the large corporations of the world. The Jews have interest, own many banks and beat the shit out of the Muslims every time.
In fact in the modern world Islam is a huge disability. Maybe it worked 1000 years ago, but today Muslims are suffering everywhere where they have no oil to save them. In India, Russia, China, Myanmar and Israel, they suffer under the yoke of the Hindus, Russians, Chinese, Buddhists and Jews. Not because they are oppressed, but because they waste the whole day praying, can’t eat pork, the cheapest meat, don’t educate their women and have no banks and follow useless Sharia finance.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Claudius, I think this is spot on. In fact, Islam did work 1000 years ago, when the most advanced societies in the world were feudal, and the rest operated on a combination of slavery, plunder and tribute. Islam is perfectly primed for a combination of slavery, plunder and tribute. Even feudalism was already too advanced for it (see what Muhammad had to say about agriculture). Islamic societies struggled to make that shift and failed. By the year 1000, Islam’s backwardness was already beginning to show, although its backwardness was disguised by the wealth plundered from Christian societies, that were mostly feudal. Things could only get worse. There is nothing that Islamic societies can do with oil money, except conspicuously consume it and squander it on jihad. But the Muslims’ own religion forbids them to see this, or even contemplate it. Things can only get worse. The “scholars'” priority today is to stem the tide of Muslims jumping ship, using the only method they know: that which works on their never-questioning Friday sermon congregations.
If you want to know what dark vacuousness looks like, join a khutbah congregation one Friday. Warning: it can be deeply depressing to observe human beings in such a state. And that would be only the tip of the iceberg. Some years before finally leaving Islam, I simply couldn’t bear having my brothers, cousins, aunts and uncles around me anymore. Their ignorance, stupidity and prejudices were driving me insane. I moved into a large shared house with Christian, Jewish, atheist and Hindu friends. My rapidly-dwindling Muslim friends’ first response to this was, “but how do you know what they eat?”
Claudius says
Lol. You are correct – Islam is a very good system for slavery, plunder and tribute. Their big advantage was the camel (notice most Muslim empires follow the distribution of the camel) and they used the promise of paradise to motivate the jihadists. But when they hit Europe they failed. Europeans ate pigs (the fastest creator of meat on a farm) and they used horses, which are much more maneuverable than camels. They could not resist the castles of the feudal knights in Spain and France and they could not stop the creation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, also feudal. Then the invention of the gun made things much worse, because charging bravely into a cannon is the height of stupidity. The Ottomans actually used European traitors to make their cannons, because they were too ignorant to do it themselves. Europeans quickly realized the weakness of the Muslims, and conquered the whole of the Middle East. Even the Indian Marathas were able to defeat the Muslim Mughals, because they were able to get guns from the Portuguese. George Bush did the right thing – he invaded Iraq and forced a modern constitution onto them. Trump killed Soleimani – he should go further and destroy the whole Iranian administration. They are too weak and too stupid to resist.
David Kavanagh says
Hmmm, not for murder, rape or grooming, then.
Veiled Heat (@VeiledHeat) says
Then what is the explanation for muslims contracting the disease? Maybe the hypocrisy of Ramadan. Having a feast and calling it a fast?
Richard Kruse says
Veiled Heat No you silly infidel! You must understand that Allah doesn’t know that they eat before sunrise and after sunset. He can’t see in the dark.
OLD GUY says
Following sharia will help you avoid C-19? I’d rather take my chances with C-19 then follow islamic sharia law. If he is such a big believer he should as an islamic Iman be out on the streets handing out copies of sharia law to everyone. Bet he don’t.
Wayne Roberts says
Watching the islamist earnestly making this point and that, I couldn’t help but feel a mixture of sorrow and contempt that he and so many others slavishly immerse themselves, and centre their entire lives around, mindless nonsense, especially mindless nonsense that he and his fellow deluded wish to spread over the globe.