“When Tareq Oubrou, the most famous media imam in France, explains that he does not draw any distinction between Islam and Islamism: ‘Islamism is an Islam in motion…'”
The distinction between Islamism and Islam is taken for granted everywhere in the West, and some people get quite self-righteous about it, bragging that they make this distinction while others, the racists and bigots and “Islamophobes,” don’t have the wit or generosity or moral capacity to do so. Such people are as contemptible as they are legion, as “Islamism” is a Western construct that corresponds to nothing in Islamic scripture, theology, or law.
The word does, however, actually have some utility, when the word “Islamism” is used to refer to political Islam in particular. Yet it is all too often used to create the illusion that political Islam is somehow distinct from and exists as a perversion of genuine Islam, which is as benign and cuddly as the day is long. Because this is false and dangerously misleading, I generally shy away from using the word.
(Thanks to Medforth.)
CogitoErgoSum says
I don’t know why more people like this man don’t point out the biggest stumbling block to understanding the Koran. It’s a book where the chapters (Surahs) are NOT arranged in chronological order. Read the verses in the order in which Muslims themselves agree upon as being the order in which Muhammad gave them to his followers. Muhammad became more aggressive, militant and violent over time and the Koran would reflect that if the verses were arranged properly. This should be common knowledge but it is not. It may be because Muslims want it that way so as to confuse the Infidels and to make the fight against them that much easier … but the Koran is the one thing Muslims agree upon as being key to their religion. It’s important to read it PROPERLY and in its order of “revelation” to understand it and to understand that Islam and Islamism are one and the same.
Also key is understanding is what “hypocrite” means with regard to those who claim to be Muslims but who shirk their duties as a Muslim. The Infidels of today can only hope that most Muslims are “hypocrites” – which I suppose most have been one way or the other.
ploome says
I think the aya are arranged according to length
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, to help Muslims memorize the verses is the reason given but doing that does nothing to help a person understand and put together logically what is being memorized. The conclusion of the book is an exhortation to discard a stance of tolerance toward Infidels and to replace that stance with one of constant fighting until everyone in the world has submitted, in one way or another, to the religion of Islam. What actually should be Surah 113 (out of 114) is now Surah 9 and it takes precedence over all that came before it – but that is not readily apparent in the way the Koran is usually organized.
Infidel says
I actually laud this imam for even accepting this term “islamism”, which is a completely western concept invented to absolve “islam” of any wrongdoing. In their mind, if islam is Dr Jekyll, “islamism” is Mr Hyde
Question to any muslim who accepts this invented term “islamism”: what is the Arabic/Urdu/Turkish/Farsi/Pasto word for it, distinct from islam?
gravenimage says
France: Prominent imam says, ‘I make no distinction between Islamism and Islam. Islamism is Islam in action.’
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Orthodox Islam.