We are constantly told in the West that jihad terrorists, and the Islamic State (ISIS) in particular, have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, and that Sharia is completely compatible with the freedoms Western societies have historically protected. So how did Shifa al-Nima get the crazy idea that ISIS was implementing Sharia properly? Will Noah Feldman or some other eminent Sharia scholar in the West kindly explain how Shifa al-Nima and ISIS got Sharia all wrong?
As for forcing the Christians to pay the jizya, that is yet another aspect of Islam that Islamic apologists in the West frequently claim was restricted only to one time and place, and has no applicability to today. Once again, ISIS didn’t get the memo. Why not?
“Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the Last Day, and do not forbidden what has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, and do not acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29).
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them. (Sahih Muslim 4294)
“Captured ISIS Mufti Of Mosul Shifa Al-Nima: The Christians Of Mosul Were Offered To Stay And Pay Jizya But Preferred To Leave; We Confiscated Their Property,” MEMRI, November 28, 2020:
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On November 28, 2020, Al-Iraqiya TV (Iraq) aired an interview with the captured ISIS Mufti of Mosul, Shifa Al-Nima in which he discussed the Christians of Mosul and how they had left the city. Mufti Al-Nima, whose real name is Shifa Ali Bashir Muhammad Gerges, explained that he was asked by the ISIS Department of Mosques to deliver a Friday sermon about the Christians. In his sermon, he talked about the Pact of Umar and said that the “People of the Book” can remain if they paid the jizya poll tax, but the Christians preferred to leave the city. Consequently, their property was confiscated by ISIS. Shifa Al-Nima was captured in January of 2020 and he was sentenced to death by hanging.
Narrator: “The terrorist Shifa Ali Bashir Muhammad Gerges was born in Mosul, 1962. He has operated within terrorist groups since 2003. He renewed his pledge of allegiance to Al-Badhdadi in 2014. Known by his nickname ‘Shifa Al-Nima,’ he served as a mufti and a judge in the ranks of the criminal ISIS. He was caught in 2020.”
Shifa Al-Nima: “We welcomed the takeover of ISIS because they wanted to implement the shari’a. and to establish the Islamic Caliphate. We welcomed them and encouraged them to implement the [rules of] the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad.”
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Narrator: “In July 20, 2014, the city [of Mosul] was completely emptied of its Christians. This was an initial step, after ISIS terrorized the Christian minority and threatened them with slaughter and confiscation of their property. In practice, they were driven out of the center of Mosul and the Nineveh Plains. Afterwards, the criminal organization turned to confiscating their property – private houses, businesses, and other properties – marking them with the (Arabic) letter nun.”
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Al-Nima: “When the issue of the Christians and their leaving Mosul surfaced, the mosque department asked me to address the issue of Christians. So, I delivered an ordinary Friday sermon, and after it read the Pact of Umar. I said that I am only conveying what is already written in the books of jurisprudence.
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“I read the Pact of Umar to the people [at the sermon]. The Pact of Umar basically says that Islam protects the People of the Book, and in return, they have to pay the jizya poll tax. This way, they can keep their religion and their religious practice. The Muslims, in return, will protect them and receive their jizya poll tax. No Christians remained [in Mosul]. They all left.”
Interviewer: “And their houses?”
Al-Nima: “All the houses were taken.”
Dave from San Antonio says
Personally…I think this cleric…is lying.
Vladimir says
Chances are, more than a few Christians were martyred by the Muslims. And I say ”Muslims” because this, what ISIS and other Jihadi groups preach and carry out, is true Islam.
Lion heart says
Vladimir : you’re absolutely right! and I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq. my Christian ancestors said it hundreds of years ago “ if a Muslim is a piece of gold, don’t put it into your pocket otherwise it will rip through “ meaning when Muslims have the power and chance to harm Christians and other nonmuslims , they will do it without any kind of hesitation at all and that saying still echoes and proves right until now !
Vladimir says
I grew up never having the ”luxury” of not knowing what Islam truly is. I had friends who were Coptic Christians from Egypt who had plenty of horror stories to inform me about the way Muslims are when they have the upper hand.
Lion heart says
Dave from San Antonio : as a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq , I wanna say that Muslims of Mosul in general are full of hate towards Christians and even in 1960s as my mom told me once that even back then , Muslim kids of Mosul were chasing elderly Christian men & women and they world call them “ infidels “ imagine all this at that time where there were no USA involvement in any war against Iraq as Muslims always lie about how USA is behind every evil on earth !!! And not only that but also , when ISIS took over Mosul in 2014 Muslim kids and teens of Mosul were trained by ISIS to behead and use the weapons and Muslims of Mosul back then and after they had taken Islam seriously and joined ISIS and were happy did ISIS taking over , they betrayed their Christian fellow citizens and not only that but they even ordered Muslim grocery stores not to sell anything to Christians and they killed Christians and beheaded dozens of Christians especially those Christians who have worked as interpreters with the US army and they were selling the bearding videos on CDs for 50 Iraqi dinars which is equal at rust time to around five US cents !!!
John says
Why is this POS still alive? Maybe he’ll quietly be let loose like they do in Paki land when the Western media is no longer interested.
Crusades Were Right says
The article says he was “sentenced to death by hanging”. By the look of him, they’ll need a VERY strong rope!
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PRCS says
I thought that might be the same guy.
Looks like he’s still eating well.
As I recall, he had to be lifted (with a hyster, or a chain hoist or some such) into the back of a pickup truck for transportation.
Crusades Were Right says
Seems these savages “protected” Christians in much the same way as the Mob “protected” businesses in Chicago!
Al Capone…
…or “Al-Qapone”?
Lion heart says
Crusades were right you’re absolutely right man ? and s a Canadian Christian guy myself originally from Iraq , I wanna say that Muslims of Mosul in general are full of hate towards Christians and even in 1960s as my mom told me once that even back then , Muslim kids of Mosul were chasing elderly Christian men & women and they world call them “ infidels “ imagine all this at that time where there were no USA involvement in any war against Iraq as Muslims always lie about how USA is behind every evil on earth !!! And not only that but also , when ISIS took over Mosul in 2014 Muslim kids and teens of Mosul were trained by ISIS to behead and use the weapons and Muslims of Mosul back then and after they had taken Islam seriously and joined ISIS and were happy did ISIS taking over , they betrayed their Christian fellow citizens and not only that but they even ordered Muslim grocery stores not to sell anything to Christians and they killed Christians and beheaded dozens of Christians especially those Christians who have worked as interpreters with the US army and they were selling the bearding videos on CDs for 50 Iraqi dinars which is equal at rust time to around five US cents !!!
gravenimage says
Thanks for that terrible view on the ground, Lion heart.
alberto gorin says
and the U.S troops after sacrificing them self-made Iraq a better place
when they could vote they did even ISIS told them to cut your finger
these groups baath party Hamas Islamic jihad Muslim brotherhood al qaeda
mix of baath party and al qaeda has all today with jihad take over of this world force other religion to surrender to Islam
Crusades Were Right says
Arguably the biggest mistake that Christians around the world (especially in what is now largely post-Christian Europe, America, Canada, etc) make is to assume that ALL religions promote moral conduct in their adherents.
Some religions, in point of fact, do precisely the opposite.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Crusades Were Right.
annonymos says
Shariah Law is equal to Hitler. Shariah Law if needed to be complete then all Mullahs have chicken ranch in Iran must be hanged. Also Shariah law says cut off hands for stealing , they have stolen for 42 years and given to all terrorist world wide. They have to be cut off hands as well.No to Shariah law of Islam any where in North America or EU or Australia and around globe.
gravenimage says
Theft is sacralized in Islam, so long as the victims are Infidels or “insufficiently Islamic”.
gravenimage says
Muslim cleric: ‘We welcomed the takeover of ISIS because they wanted to implement the Sharia’
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And note that this Muslim cleric was only upset that they didn’t get the revenue from crushing Jizya taxes.
Giacomo Latta says
I find it curious that this mufti did so much work for ISIS and yet does not declare himself as an ISIS member. Thinking about his neck,methinks.
gravenimage says
Good point, Giacomo.
Kaz Elichko says
I mean no disrespect to anyone here, there everywhere, but I must say, this will never stop unless the Muslim world stands up and stops it! People around the world are being displaced killed raped maimed the list goes on and gets worse. These groups who are outside of Iraq Iran Saudi Africa even the U.S, most stand quiet, most
look away, silence is complacency! Monday morning quarter backing does nothing but give these inhuman animals a pass to continue. I’ll finish by saying, if crazed religious people came into MY country or state, they’d have a hellava fight trying to make us pay or leave, convert or die ect..I pray G-d enlightens the Muslims to stand up and end their silence that is killing their people. The cult of death needs an intervention, NOW!
gravenimage says
Kaz, the Muslim world will never stop this becaus it is orthodox Islam.
And I don’t know what country you live in, bult likely Muslims have already invaded there, at least to some extent.
We were mostly safe in the West before Muslims were allowed to flood in in large numbers.
Kaz says
Oh for sure they’re here, but I said, a hellava fight getting me to pay convert run me out. And you’re right, it won’t stop, but then let’s start looking into guilty by association, cut funds to fake Org. No more $$$ to countries that parade hate for us good ole infidels , many ways. But like I said, silence=complacency, where are the marches the community outrage. U won’t see/hear them because I honestly believe MOST are ok with these horrific crimes. They’re being spoon fed this hate right from birth and the spoon just gets bigger.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Kaz. President Trump *had* started to cut aid to Islamic countries persecuting their non-Muslim populations or enabling terrorism like Nigeria, Pakistan, and the “Palestinian” Authority–but grimly this progress will likely be rolled back under Biden.
Eur says
years before the appearance of Isis and even the invasion of Iraq I heard the word Yizia for the first time. That was in France, young people of Maghreb origin (Moroccans and Algerians) used to laugh and make humor about their early conquest of France by becoming a majority and that they would impose the jizya on non-Muslim French. On that occasion I did not give it more importance but Over the years and seeing that this is a reality since Muslims really want that kind of theocratic society, it already worries me and worries me a lot. Islam is a danger.
Crusades Were Right says
“Islam is a danger”
It ALWAYS was… and ALWAYS will be.
+1
Vladimir says
”Apparently” they really weren’t joking about imposing Jizya on Non-Muslims.
Kaz says
They want to impose this “ tax” on non Muslims in Muslim controlled countries. In some of the more radical countries these ppl can’t work send children to school own property, nothing. Blood from a stone. Perhaps they haven’t really thought that out 🙂
gravenimage says
Scary, Eur–and I agree with Vladimir–these were not really jokes.
Michael Copeland says
Notice the word “implement” in “they wanted to implement the Sharia”. It is capable of sounding so anodyne and neutral. Anjem Choudary uses it. In reality it is a euphemism for “impose by force”.
gravenimage says
True, Michael.
Carol the 1st says
To put it in plain English (and not genteel muslimese): Whoever gets to “dole out the law” automatically grabs the playing field.