What? A Muslim cleric? But how could this be? How could a man who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly and communicating it effectively somehow get the idea that his religion calls for violence against non-Muslims? It’s blazingly obvious to non-Muslims such as Pope Francis, Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron that Islam teaches peace and tolerance. How did this imam miss all those peaceful teachings that are so very clear to non-Muslims?
“Police in Indonesia arrest imam allegedly behind call for jihad video,” Coconuts Jakarta, December 4, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Indonesia’s National Police have arrested a man believed to be behind one of the hugely controversial viral videos showing the Islamic sacred adhan (call to prayer) being modified to include a war cry.
The Directorate of Cyber Crime of The National Police’s Crime Investigation Unit (Bareskrim) apprehended a man identified as 22-year-old SY earlier today in Cibadak district, West Java. Police say he’s the imam (person leading the prayer), who also served as the muezzin (a person appointed to recite the adhan), in one video.
The clip showed SY modifying a verse of the call to prayer to include a call for jihad (which literally means “struggle” in Arabic, but has commonly been used in the context for religious crusade). The modified adhan changed the line “ḥayya ʿalā ṣ-ṣalāh” (hasten to the prayer) to “ḥayya alāl jihad” (hasten to jihad)….
In at least one of the many viral videos, several men were standing behind the muezzin and lifted their machetes and sickles into the air when the modified verse was recited….
The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the highest clerical body in the nation, condemned the modified adhan earlier this week.
“The Prophet [Mohammed] never modified the adhan. Even during war time, the adhan was not changed, so it cannot be changed into a call for jihad,” MUI Chairman Cholil Nafis said…
DavidR says
Like little boys playing war.
Michael Copeland says
“Where is your weapon? Where is your weapon? Come to the jihad!”
– Omar Bakri
gravenimage says
Indonesia: Muslim cleric issues video in which he calls for jihad as those behind him raise machetes
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A Muslim cleric, huh? He knows his Islam–and it is all about Jihad terror.