My latest in PJ Media:
No sooner has Joe Biden reminded us that Islam is a peaceful religion than a Washington, D.C.-area imam comes along to spoil the love fest. Dr. Sulayman Ali Hassan preached a sermon recently at the Shahe Najaf Islamic Center in the D.C. suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, in which he makes it clear that jihad is an obligation on all Muslims and that it has a violent component. Maybe Old Joe, being one of the world’s foremost Islamic clerics, can drop by the Shahe Najaf Islamic Center sometime soon and explain to the good Dr. Hassan how he is misunderstanding Islam. Until then, we can only hope that none of Dr. Hassan’s hearers decide that Islam is being attacked in a way that calls for a violent response.
Hassan, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), is a Shi’ite who was born in the United States but spent ten years studying to be a Muslim cleric at a seminary in Qom, Iran, a center of Shi’ite learning. In his sermon, he declared that “Islam has emphasized that we should all be mujahid.” A mujahid is a warrior of jihad, or a jihadi.
This doesn’t mean that Hassan was telling everyone to go out and commit an act of terrorist violence, but he did leave the door open to violent action in defense of Islam: “When the time calls for one type of sacrifice, we should be ready for that type of sacrifice. If Islam is under attack, then we should make sure that all of us are preparing and readying ourselves to be able to defend Islam in the way that it is being attacked. If there is a physical attack, then we should all be ready with martial training and self-defense training so that we can stand up for our rights and our dignity. If it is an intellectual attack, then all of us should be armed with the weapons of intellect and reasoning.”
This is all in accord with standard Islamic theology. There are various types of jihad, including the jihad of the pen, that is, taking up intellectual arguments to defend Islam against detractors. That may be what Hassan had in mind when he called upon Muslims to “be armed with the weapons of intellect and reasoning.” And his call for his hearers to be ready to defend Islam from physical attack is in accord with classic Islamic law, which states that jihad is an obligation upon the Islamic community as a whole, such that some are excused from it if others are undertaking this obligation, but if a Muslim land is attacked, the defense of that land becomes an individual duty incumbent upon every Muslim.=
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Wellington says
Juan Cole needs to set this imam straight on the wonderful, peaceful and tolerant religion which is Islam.
mortimer says
Agree with Wellington.
Juan Cole and Biden are at this very minute rushing over to Shahe Najaf Islamic Center in the D.C. suburb of Alexandria to CORRECT the statements of Dr. Sulayman Ali Hassan. (sarc/off)
ON PLANET REALITY, the good cleric no doubt has a PhD in Islamic studies, so who is better equipped to define Islam? Biden, Cole or Hassan?
When Islamic clerics tell us that JIHAD IS COMPULSORY DUTY FOR ALL MUSLIMS, on what basis do Western politicians tell us that Islam is ‘the religion of peace’, besides their own wishful thinking and willful blindness?
maria says
What an mentally disturbed creature bidet says is of no importance , but it is important to stop the demoRats and get back President Trump
Walter Sieruk says
Speaking falsehoods and lies is one of the many awful and wrong things that Joe Biden does.
To put this in another way about lying Biden . It may be well said that if Joe Biden tells someone that “It’s raining outside.” That same person would be wise to first look out of the window before believing him.
mortimer says
Biden is a career yes-man and a career liar.
mortimer says
Joe LIE-den. (Where’s Hunter’s laptop?)
gravenimage says
As Biden Says Islam is Peaceful, D.C. Imam Calls for Jihad
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This pretty much says it all. But how many Americans are even paying attention?
roberta says
If 9-11 occurred today the press would try and cover it up.
This Afghanistan bs is a cocktail of crack, steroids, and jet fuel for muslims.
Bad stuff is coming, they are just too emotional to not jihad.
somehistory says
Translation: terrorism in all of its forms. Until we all feel “subdued.”
I will never feel “subdued.”
This evil is headed for the “lake of fire,” not for some lust-filled drunken rape-of-the- children fest. The ‘gates of Gehenna’ is where they will enter.
Ade Fegan says
I bet he has rainbow underpants under those pyjamas huh Joe
OLD GUY says
How can any Politician or Pope stand up and tell the free world that Islam is love and peace? Islam wants to murder the Jewish, Christians and all others that don’t follow and practice islam, or at a minimum enslave us. Our leadership better pull their heads out before ISLAM cuts them OFF.
Dogman58 says
I despise the koran…and I despise muslims that adhere to the koran…for those who are listening…don’t mistake our generosity and kindness for weakness…that would be your fatal mistake…because despite what the demonRat communist party is trying to do to this country…there are far more REAL AMERICANS that would lay down their lives to protect the Constitution of the United States of America….just sayin’
Dogman58 says
Koran 2:191 “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them”
Koran 5:33 “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam”
Koran 8:12 “Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran”
Koran 8:60 “Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels”
Koran 9:5 “When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them.
gravenimage says
Yes–a grim list.