Khan’s full statement on this: “The West conveniently associated Islam with terrorism but in the last 20 years, Muslim countries unfortunately, did not respond to this narrative. Muslim leaders should have stood up to the West and made it clear that there is no link between Islam, or any other religion, with terrorism.”
Here again, it is false to claim that the West associated Islam with terrorism. The terrorists themselves did that. Take 9/11, which is just one of innumerable possible examples. In March 2009, the masterminds of the 9/11 plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin As-Shibh, Walid bin ‘Attash, Mustafa Ahmed AI-Hawsawi, and ‘Ali ‘abd Al-’Aziz ‘Ali – styling themselves as the “9/11 Shura Council” –wrote a lengthy communiqué titled “The Islamic Response to the Government’s Nine Accusations.” In it, they wrote: “Many thanks to God, for his kind gesture, and choosing us to perform the act of Jihad for his cause and to defend Islam and Muslims. Therefore, killing you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing you, responding back to your attacks, are all considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion….We ask to be near to God, we fight you and destroy you and terrorize you. The Jihad in god’s [sic] cause is a great duty in our religion.” They quoted numerous Qur’an verses, including one stating that “to those against whom war is waged, permission is given (to fight,) because they are wronged and verily, Allah is most powerful for their aid” (22:39), and another commanding Muslims to “fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, but be not the transgressor, Allah likes not the transgressors” (2:190). They even quoted the notorious “Verse of the Sword”: “Then fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them, and seize them, and besiege them and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush” (9:5).
To cinch their case, they used two verses enjoining Muslims to strike terror into the hearts of their foes: “Soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, for that they joined companies with Allah, for which he has sent no authority; There [sic] place will be the fire; and evil is the home of the wrongdoers” (3:151); and “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the heart of the enemies of Allah and your enemies” (8:60).
Hijacker Mohammed Atta wrote this just before the attack: “When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers. God said: ‘Strike above the neck, and strike at all of their extremities.’ Know that the gardens of paradise are waiting for you in all their beauty, and the women of paradise are waiting, calling out, ‘Come hither, friend of God.’ They have dressed in their most beautiful clothing.” The “Strike above the neck, and strike at all of their extremities” quote is also from the Qur’an (47:4). The gardens and women of Paradise are also spoken of in the Qur’an (52:17-20; 55:62-76; etc.), underscoring the fact that Atta and his companions saw their mission and goal in exclusively Islamic terms.
In Osama bin Laden’s letter to the American people, which was published on November 24, 2002, he put it succinctly: “The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.” This was the ultimate purpose of the 9/11 attacks: to weaken the American economy, so that ultimately the American government would collapse. That, presumably, would end what bin Laden and his allies considered to be unacceptable American interference in Muslim countries, and pave the way for the U.S. itself to become an Islamic state.
Over 18 years have passed since bin Laden issued that statement, and nearly twelve since the 9/11 plotters justified their actions by reference to Islam, and still no moderate Muslim has taken up the Islamic case for 9/11 and refuted it on Islamic grounds. This doesn’t mean that the jihadist argument is ipso facto correct, but for Imran Khan to pretend, and to demand that the West pretend, that the 9/11 plotters and other jihadis had no Islamic case and did not identify Islam as the motive and justification for their actions, and that the connection between Islam and terrorism was made by non-Muslims, simply flies in the face of the facts.
“Muslim countries should stand up to Islamophobia, says PM Imran Khan,” Geo News, February 8, 2021:
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that Muslim countries should collectively voice their concerns against Islamophobia and stand up to the West for associating Islam with terrorism.
The prime minister was addressing the Ulema and Mashaikh Conference in Islamabad during which he said that since he understands the West better than others, he has raised the issue of Islamophobia on all forums from time to time.
“The West conveniently associated Islam with terrorism but in the last 20 years, Muslim countries unfortunately, did not respond to this narrative,” he said. “Muslim leaders should have stood up to the West and made it clear that there is no link between Islam, or any other religion, with terrorism.”
The premier explained that extremists exist in all societies, but when western countries started using terms like “radical Islam,” “Islamic extremism,” and even started associating suicide bombing with Islam, Muslim leaders did nothing to counter this disinformation campaign against Islam and the problem kept worsening.
“Before 9/11, suicide bombings were majorly carried out by the [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] in Sri Lanka, a group comprising Hindus, but nobody ever associated Hinduism with terrorism,” he said, adding that before the World War II, the Japanese also carried out suicide attacks in American ships but no one associated their religion with terrorism.
He said that those Muslims living in Western countries, and even in India, are facing a lot of problems because of Islamophobia.
“When Muslim women living in the West go out of their houses wearing a headscarf, people taunt them,” the PM said. “Similarly, bearded Muslim men have to face derogatory remarks.”…
Mike says
could have FOOLD me
Trojan horse they are
mortimer says
Prime Minister Imran Khan has no grounds to claim that terrorism is not part of Islam … even Pakistan’s Brigadier S.K. Khan wrote that terrorism is the main strategy of the Pak Army:
-“Only a strategy that aims at STRIKING TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE ENEMIES from the preparation stage can produce direct results and turn (the) dream into a reality.” – Pakistani Brig. S.K. Malik, “Quranic Concept of War”.
The Koran says:
– “TURHIBUNNA” (terrorize them) – Koran 8.60.
Islamic scholars say:
“If we follow the science of Koranic interpretation, we (Muslims) CANNOT CONDEMN TERRORISM in
RELIGIOUS terms. It (TERRORISM) remains completely true to the classical rules in its evolution of
sanctity for its own justification. This is where the secret of its theological strength lies.” –
Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
-“…the jihad in the way of Allah is not terrorism.” – Qazi Hussain Ahmed, former president of
Jamaat-e-Islami
Dude says
Their relatives for centuries were pillaged, killed, raped, robbed by the millions by the mohammedans who poured out of the deserts.
Their properties and homes are still owned by the invaders’ descendants, as they strut their imagined superiority on the streets.
So don’t tell me the nonstop evil terror which was praised by their cult leader has nothing to do with the cult. IT IS THE CULT – THE ONLY REASON FOR THE CULT’S EXISTENCE SINCE MEDINA.
Of course you cannot let the truth be known or the world will demolish everything you have built. That is my fondest desire, and soon it will happen. Your lies cannot defeat the internet. Soon everyone will know, and eventually our naivety and kind natures will give way to justice. Then it will end. And that is real akbhar, dude!
somehistory says
Lying bologna.
The Kamikaze (divine wind) pilots committed suicide for their “emperor,” whom they worshipped. Missiles were attached to their planes and they deliberately crashed them into the American ships. MacArthur had to disabuse the emperor of his divine power.
That is the same as what moslim suicide bombers do for their fake ‘prophet,’ and false ‘god.’
If moslims like this know-it-all creep want islam separated from terrorism, they’ll have to stop committing terror attacks. He will have to stop the murders of Christian citizens in his country by rabid moslim terrorists.
All of the moslim countries already proclaim a war on the fake ‘phobia’ of his filthy religion of satan. Fighting the Truth never comes out a success. The Truth is, islam is terrorism; its adherents are taught to terrorize…their families, their neighbors, Christians, Jews and any others that don’t immediately bow down to them in a slave’s manner.
Stop lying; burn your filthy book…all copies of it…admit that it is a book of evil filth and that it commands you to terrorize the rest of us…and stop terrorizing the rest of us. The only way to go.
revereridesagain says
Good point. Nothing gives homicidal maniacs a sense of righteous justification for their savagery like claiming, “My god told me to do it!” Or their emperor if everyone in their tribes chooses to agree that he’s the relevant god. It cuts out the middleman, as it were.
But just as the BLM-ers will scream “racist!” if you point out the justification of violence in their paranoid fantasies, so will the slaves of Allah scream “Islamophobe!”.
Donald max says
The “Blasphemy law” of Pakistan has been used for many years as a weapon to kill and destroy non-Muslims. It is a miracle that Christianity still exists in this backward country.
somehistory says
I agree. And we know Who performs miracles.
Michael Copeland says
“…to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies”
— Pakistani General S. K. Malik in “The Quranic Concept of War”
https://www.understandingthethreat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Brigadier-S-K-Malik-Quranic-Concept-of-War.pdf
Ade Fegan says
“The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him (!!)) said:
“War is deception””
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 3029; Muslim, 58)
Andrew says
the prophet (piss and satanic wishes be upon him)… there I fixed it for you… no charge…
mortimer says
It cannot be denied that Pakistan’s Islamic leaders justified terrorism in 1971 on the basis of Islamic teachings.
Pakistan conducted a war of terrorism against Bangladesh in 1971 in which 3 million Bengalis were slaughtered (mainly civilians) and 300,000 women raped. It was a clear case of Islamic terrorism and genocide committed under the AUTHORITY OF THE ISLAMIC ESTABLISHMENT of Pakistan.
Aastra says
one small correction it was done with the help of america.
gravenimage says
Aastra is always claiming that Jihad terror is actually the fault of the ‘filthy Infidels’–particularly America.
The US *should* have paid more attention to reports of gencide by Pakistan–but the idea that the US helped Pakistan wage violent Jihad is false.
Barook says
mortimer
You are absolutely right.
My family are survivors of that 1971 Bangladesh genocide. I was 15 years old at the time and i can bear witness to what I saw and experienced. Innocent men and boys shot like dogs in the streets. Four male members of out neighbours dragged out a and lined up front to back and shot at point blank range with just one bullet… their bodies lying in front of our house…. gradually bloating and stray dogs consuming their flesh. I’ve witnessed babies grabbed from their mother’s arms, thrown up in the air and caught at the end of a bayonet. It was a game for the soldiers.
Today, Bangladesh is far far better of as a nation. It is a secular country respected by other nations. It’s economy is thriving. Pakistan is yet to apologise openly that what it did to Pakistan in 1971.
I feel so proud that a Jewish General in the Indian army (Jack Farj Raphael Jacob) lead the Indian army and defeated and forced General Niazi to surrender and brought about the liberation of Bangladesh. It is well documented in history.
General Jacob is my father’s cousin.
Barook says
CORRECTION
Today, Bangladesh is far far better of as a nation. It is a secular country respected by other nations. It’s economy is thriving. Pakistan is yet to apologise openly that what it did to BANGLADESH in 1971.
Apologies…. I get emotional whenever I think about 1971 and/or when I write about what happened
gravenimage says
Sorry about what happened to you, Barook.
I’m afraid you are mistaken in believing that Bangladesh is a secular nation, though. Violence against Hindus, Christians, Atheists, and other non-Muslims is rife there.
“Bangladesh: Muslims lynch man, burn his body, riot, assault police over rumor that he desecrated Qur’an”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/11/bangladesh-muslims-lynch-man-burn-his-body-riot-assault-police-over-rumor-that-he-desecrated-quran
“Bangladesh: Muslim mob burns homes of Hindus over Facebook post about Muhammad cartoons”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/11/bangladesh-muslim-mob-burns-homes-of-hindus-over-facebook-post-about-muhammad-cartoons
“Bangladesh: Hindu student accused of insulting Muhammad, is suspended from university and goes missing”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/11/bangladesh-hindu-student-accused-of-insulting-muhammad-is-suspended-from-university-and-goes-missing
“Bangladesh: Killers of atheist “think they have done a very good job for their religion’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/03/bangladesh-killers-of-atheist-think-they-have-done-a-very-good-job-for-their-religion
These horrors are both official and un-official bujt often winked at by authorities.
Pakistan may possibly be even worse–but this is, sadly, damning with faint praise.
Ade Fegan says
But the quran makes it clear that there is !
tim gallagher says
So apparently Khan hasn’t bothered to read the Muslims’ basic text, the Koran, where there are very clearly all those calls to kill non-believers, which leads straight on to all the Muslim terrorist attacks. I’m sure he knows all that stuff but is just another mega liar like so many Muslims are. A lot of us don’t buy any of this bullshit from Muslim liars, but, unfortunately, there still seem to be quite a lot of people who do buy these lies (I’m amazed that anyone still does buy this unmitigated lying crap from Muslims like Khan, but nothing seems to wake some people up).
gravenimage says
Tim, he knows all about it, and has called Osama bin Laden a “Martyr”. This is Taqiyya from Khan.
tim gallagher says
I’m sure that’s right, gravenimage. I never believe anything Muslims are telling us infidels, except when you get the occasional one who comes straight out with the hatred and threats to kill us for being (shock, horror) non-Muslims. Like all the people here at Jihad Watch I am immune to the bullshit we cop from Muslims. As I mentioned up above, it is the clowns in our western societies who still do actually believe the utter garbage that the Muslim liars come up with that annoy me. I haven’t bothered to follow Imran Khan’s political career but I can remember him as a really big time Pakistani cricketer, way back in the 1970s it probably was, who had a reputation as playboy and then got married to Jemima Goldsmith, the daughter of a mega rich tycoon in the UK. I suppose, inside, he was always a vicious Muslim, but I suppose he wanted to throw his weight around in politics and had to become a hardline Muslim barbarian to get anywhere in Pakistani politics. I truly don’t have the time of day for him or any of these Muslims (tolerance is not something I bother with when it comes to Islam, which to me, is as evil as Nazism) and Pakistan truly seems to be one of the worst places on earth.
Michael Copeland says
Pakistan is a failed state dependent on international aid.
tim gallagher says
Michael, I get my information about Pakistan here at Jihad Watch (I can’t remember the last time Pakistan was mentioned on the main stream media out here in Australia) and it truly does seem to be an appalling place full of raving Muslim loonies (there are always those mobs of useless lunatics calling for some Christian or other non-Muslim to be murdered for “blasphemy”, Asia Bibi being the case I recall most clearly), so I agree with your view of Pakistan as a failed state. I would say that Pakistan is one of the worst of all the Muslim states, but then so many of them seem absolutely bloody hopeless places as well. Islam seems to ensure that a country will be a backward hellhole.
Michael Copeland says
Thanks for your comment, tim.
One high likelihood is that Khan has actually never read, and does not know well his Koran. This is because It is in Arabic. Translations are frowned on by the clerics, as being “less pure” (decoy word for “revealing”). Practically all non-Arabic-speaking muslims (the majority) depend on their imams to inform them what the words they memorise and recite mean. This has been David Wood’s experience. He is far, far, more knowledgeable about Koran and Hadith than the vast majority of muslims.
Pakistan, the “Pure” (Paki) Islamic state, is a few months older than Israel, the Jewish state. The difference is glaring, and shows the effect Islam has in holding back social development.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Michael. You are extremely knowledgeable about Islam, that’s for sure. I have heard about this obscurantist rubbish where some Muslim clowns (“scholars” I guess they’d be called) say that you have to read the Koran in Arabic to understand its meaning. As you say, it is probably a fear of people having the vile content of the Koran revealed to them. I suspect that Imran Khan is probably just a lazy, “born to rule” kind of man. I used to watch a few of David Wood’s videos. I enjoyed them. He is perceptive and pretty witty I thought. These days, I stick with Jihad Watch. Islam seems to me to be a backward ideology which will drag any country down into hellishness. I don’t believe that Islam has anything positive to offer humanity.
gravenimage says
Michael, you are so right about Israel and Pakistan, created at about the same time, and they could not be more different.
Jaydam says
Khan’s full statement on this: “The West conveniently associated Islam with terrorism but in the last 20 years, Muslim countries unfortunately, did not respond to this narrative. Muslim leaders should have stood up to the West and made it clear that there is no link between Islam, or any other religion, with terrorism.”
——————————————————————————————————————————
Ive never read anything so ridiculous in JW.
Does Khan really believe the above or maybe he is suffering from Dementia.
abhyudaya says
‘West associated Islam with terrorism. Muslims should have made it clear that there is no link.’
Says the guy who called Osama bin laden a martyr in Pakistan parliament. Both the Indian liberals and the Pakistanis believe that the LTTE is a Hindu terrorist organization which is a big lie. Imran Khan should read history of the Sri Lankan civil war in his freetime and must know that the war was a ethnic war, not a religious war. The Sinhalas and the Tamils fought aganist each other, not the Buddhists and the Hindus. I lost my brain cells when this fool said that the religion of the Japanese was not questioned when they bombed the Americans.. Like seriously?
Michael Copeland says
Maybe he has been talking with Hillary Clinton. After all, she said:
“Let’s be clear, Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.”
https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/667371059885301761?lang=en.
mgoldberg says
There are so many instances of homicidal serial killing of infidels, of murders of apostates, of brutality to all other religious minorities there. Hell, Mumbai was the site of some hundreds murdered and attacked savagely without any murder; aided and abetted by the intelligence apparatus of Pakistan. Remember the rabbi and his wife in Mumbai, who were singled out for slaughter- butchery in fact- simply for being Jews? This clod of a President of a nation that demands no one notice any of that- ought to be laughed and sneered off the stage for his pretentious hateful pretentions. Homicidal slaughters by the boat load and all the muslim can do is demand that everyone pretend that it has nothing to do with Islam..
Michael Copeland says
“Islam is a religion of power, fighting, jihad, beheading and bloodshed”,
says Imam Hussein Bin Mahmoud, prominent writer
http://pamelageller.com/2014/08/prominent-cleric-cleric-justifies-beheadings-islam-religion-beheading.html/#sthash.ev2ucGmz.dpuf.
Linde Barrera says
To Michael Copeland- I would add another descriptive word to both Mr. Khan and Islam in general: narcissistic.
James says
But they did make it clear. The jihadis follow the Koran and hadiths completely and thoroughly. If you don’t know that, then it is time for you to bury your nose in those books. Read them in their entirety.
If only they would learn to read.
Eleanor says
Oh goody! Using Khan’s logic, that there is no link between Islam and terrorism, means the Christchurch shooting of 50 muslims in a mosque, was just a random unplanned event, and these people were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. We need to let the families know that Khan has said this was not a terrorist attack and that there is no link to Islam. Well, that’s a relief.
gravenimage says
Pakistan’s Khan: ‘West associated Islam with terrorism. Muslims should have made it clear that there is no link.’
………………..
Just grotesque. Pakistan is itself a Jihad terror state. Khan himself called Osama bin Laden a “Martyr”:
“Imran Khan criticised after calling Osama Bin Laden a ‘martyr'”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53190199
His political opponents have nicknamed him “Taliban Khan”.
Infidel says
Even if there were muslim countries that could credibly try and dissociate islam w/ terrorism (thinking of countries like Sierra Leone, Turkmenistan), Pakistan definitely ain’t one of them. In fact, it’s one of the most active jihad sponsors – others being the Palis, Turkey, Iran and still Afghanistan
Ren says
The prophet of islam being a terrorist does not grant islam any link to terrorism.
Andrew says
Perhaps this ex Cricketer could call his fellow muslims to stop blowing themselves up while screaming allah…you know… the thing…While blaming us for calling them muslims, and not just naughty naughty boys,and soy boys at that…
Then we will stop thinking these morons want to blow us with them while they enter paradise, so does a female suicide boomer also get a bunch of female virgins, or is that just the female Lesbians…oops wait a minute I forgot there are no Lesbians ,or Gay boys, in islam…
John Forbes says
More IDIOTCY from PAKISTAN! Like ” we did not know OSAMA BIN LADIN was living in Abattobad for 5 years?
This place has NO CREDIBILITY at all! Of course there is a LINK -Read the KORAN & HADITHS & Sira !
All there in abuse of the KAFIR !!
IMRAN the LIAR!
L Mayor says
Muslims don`t see the murderous behavior of their brethren as terrorism, because the “teachings” of the prophet of islam are being followed when the murders are committed. After all, how can these “holy” acts be anything but offerings to allah by the faithful?
madpatriot2 says
What an idiotic statement by these muslims…what do they think their way of living is then, if not terroristic??.
They do not fit in the modern world at all and hang on to the old evil ways from long ago!…Chopping off heads and harming little girls is not normal nor is the terroristic way you treat your OWN PEOPLE! Look what you do when the rest of the world does NOT agree with you…you make up excuses! …NO ONE LIKES any of YOU OR YOUR IDIOTIC SO CALLED ‘RELIGION’…IF IT IS ONE, IT IS evil and OF SATAN- period!!
You are a hypocrites of satans army! There is NO honor or love in your ‘faith’ or what you do! God will not forgive such evil and has plans for you all in hell!
Malmo says
So when it’s the Crusades, its Christianity, when its the caste system, its Hinduism. But when its terrorism, its never Islam. No religion has the right to be judged by the behaviour of those who do not take up arms in its name. But when they do, what alternative does the world have but to associate Islam with terror?
The best response to him would be the cleric from Indonesia who explicitly traces Islam’s violence to its tenets.
Aastra says
the eternal ally of west. who helps west by keeping control of evil polytheist country of india and helps spread terrorism throughout the world LOL.
gravenimage says
Pakistan is no ally of the West. How is giving Osama bin Laden allying with the West? And Aastra’s constant claims that the West hates Hinduism is just absurd and not borne out at all.
notnolib says
Slight correction for this ackbarbarian. It’s muslims themselves thru the action of muslims that associate the gutter-cult of islam with terrorism. In fact, terror is one of the “built-ins” of the gutter-cult. islam (and of course allah the moon-god), invented by the pig-faced dog mohammed, is defined by terror. All of the ackbarbarians are terrorists or terror supporters.
steve omara says
Actually, The deceased victims of Worldwide, endless Islamic terrorism, have no opinion on this, The survivors and witnesses are likely to be Islamophobic. What a surprise. In France I have seen a wartime memorial that NOW also bears the name of a local woman killed by ”terrorism.”
IanB says
How about “I was made victorious through terror” for starters.