Robert Spencer: Muslims wouldn’t bomb Muhammad’s city, would they?
Thursday, July 07, 2016
Over at PamelaGeller.com
I explain why the latest attempts to exonerate Islam from
responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its
teachings founder on the facts:
The Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Medina shows once and for all that
ISIS is not Islamic, right? After all, how could a Muslim group, much
less a self-styled “caliphate,” set off a bomb in the city of Muhammad
himself? That proves that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam, no?
Maher Zain, a Multi Platinum-winning singer and songwriter who is Muslim, wrote on Twitter
to his 1.47 million followers: “Still need proof that ISIS is the
foremost enemy of Islam? They attack the Prophet’s City. Terror knows no
religion!” Boxer Amir Khan tweeted
to his 1.75 million followers: “The attack in our beloved Prophet
Muhammad’s city Madinah proves that Isis has no religion!” The UK Muslim
broadcaster Mohammed Shafiq wrote: “The attack on #Madinah was an attack against all Muslims. We need unity against this evil.”
And the Qur’an forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims (4:92). But
Islam also mandates death for those who are considered heretics and
apostates – and the Islamic State, in claiming to be the caliphate, the
one true government to which all Muslims owe allegiance, and in
demanding the obedience of all Muslims worldwide, has placed itself in
the position of considering any Muslims who reject its authority to be
heretical by virtue of that very rejection, and therefore worthy of
death.
That is all the more true regarding governments of Muslim states that
do not accept the caliphate. The Islamic State regards the House of
Saud as illegitimate, and therefore to undermine it is a holy act. Reuters
reported Sunday that the Islamic State jihadis targeted “a security
headquarters at a mosque in the holy city of Medina,” and that “a
suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the security headquarters of the
Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, the second-holiest site in Islam.
Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said an initial death toll from the
Medina blast included three suicide bombers and two security forces
officers.”
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I do not aim to please anyone. This is my blog, there is no blog like this. I am not mainstream. Read my disclaimer before posting comments and threatening me. Not to worry, I will not quiver in my boots. If you are not happy, no problem, just take a hike!!